You don't have Canadian experience..
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Posted on: 09-03-05 22:21:28
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Orginally posted by AnilKG
Actually, when I came to Canada. I had the same issue with Canadian experience in my second interview. My response was a question: \"Where do you sell your products most?\" The answer was \"USA\". My response was \"Then why the hell you want Canadian Experience for.\" The interviewer were CEO and CTO who told me they buy my argument but they will put me in US customer facing role which I happily agreed to. They offered me the job at the end of the interview. That was my second f2f interview after 3 weeks of landing in Canada. They kind of liked my arrogance/ego along with US education and experience. Ofcourse they also were arrogant and have big egos thus clash of titans. In the end, we parted way after 18 months but I got two promotions and 25% pay raise in that time frame.
he he i like your style AnilKG
'You don't have Canadian experience..' oh, this is just a common excuse to get rid of unwanted candidate. I came across this so many times.
Ironically, I mentioned my 1.5 years work exp at USA, but they insisted on Canadian exp only. Laughable creatures... lol
Quote:Not necessarily - as it has been mentioned in this thread before - it depends on the nature of the job.
Orginally posted by ThinkingOne
'You don't have Canadian experience..' oh, this is just a common excuse to get rid of unwanted candidate. I came across this so many times.
Ironically, I mentioned my 1.5 years work exp at USA, but they insisted on Canadian exp only. Laughable creatures... lol
Some jobs may explicitly require Canadian experience, in terms of awareness of the Canadian markets, business situations, work culture, ethics, etc.
For instance, a business development job in a Canadian manufacturing company would (and should) require Canadian experience.
However, a non-customer facing IT job should not necessarily require Canadian experience and is often used as an excuse to filter out canadidates.
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pratickm ji,
I am working in IT for past 10 years. All solid IT industry experience at world wide locations for fortune 500 companies. Canadian IT industry refusing American IT experience!!! I found it so ridiculous!
Thanks.
What was the job you were applying for, and what were the roles, responsibilties and expectations for the position?
That would determine whether "Canadian experience" should be necessary or not.
That said, it gets fuzzy after a point because it is the employer's prerogative to decide whether "Canadian experience" should or should not a qualifying factor in the job - we as candidates have no say.
It only gets nasty when this prerogative is used as a tool to filter out candidates who are undesirable for some other subjective reason - soft skills, race, colour discrimination, general personal dislike, etc. which are usually not communicated to the candidate.
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"Mah deah, there is much more money to be made in the destruction of civilization than in building it up."
-- Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind"
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Orginally posted by pratickm
What was the job you were applying for, and what were the roles, responsibilties and expectations for the position?
That would determine whether "Canadian experience" should be necessary or not.
The job description, roles, responsibilities and expectations used to be exactly the same (or may be upto 90%) towards which I used to apply for. And yes, I had realized that as open discrimination. Some used to be kind enuf to reply back - u r over-qualified.
Anyway, But then after some struggle, I cud land up with good offer.
fyi, my resume, soft communication skills (including language skills), presentation skills and job-related skills are quite polished ones. So those were not a hinderance, as in the usual case.
Regards.
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Orginally posted by pratickm
Quote:Not necessarily - as it has been mentioned in this thread before - it depends on the nature of the job.
Orginally posted by ThinkingOne
'You don't have Canadian experience..' oh, this is just a common excuse to get rid of unwanted candidate. I came across this so many times.
Ironically, I mentioned my 1.5 years work exp at USA, but they insisted on Canadian exp only. Laughable creatures... lol
Some jobs may explicitly require Canadian experience, in terms of awareness of the Canadian markets, business situations, work culture, ethics, etc.
For instance, a business development job in a Canadian manufacturing company would (and should) require Canadian experience.
However, a non-customer facing IT job should not necessarily require Canadian experience and is often used as an excuse to filter out canadidates.
if you are in IT... you are always facing a customer..
