Hello,
Today i start the day with a small hacks, daily coffee, and just went straight to work. Nothing interesting to be talk about since it is daily morning routines. Fortunately, my job today is not as much as before so i could write two tips today and one daily journal. Not just that, i also do a research about how to obtain a working visa through skilled worker. According to the information in Canada Immigration and Citizenship official site, there were 60 different immigration program, differentiate by its criteria. My personal aim is working in Canada, so this article will be focused heavily on the process of getting a working visa. I will keep an update in this site and this information might change by time. If you are seeking for study visa or internship in Canada, i am really sorry that this article is not for you.
So here we begin. 60 programs sounds huge but i will cut down into three different process based on the difficulties. Let me start with the hardest one:
General Immigration or Express Entry
For a person who has an international degree, international working experience with decent English and French speaking, especially for those who already get a sponsorship letter from the Canadian Company would likely get accepted through this way. According to the requirements, this stand the hardest among all. English language fluency is a must and in order to get their minimum requirement score, one should reach at least 67 points. Points are share between language proficiency, international degree, working experience and age. There were another what i called bonus point since it worth less than those four but it could make yourself a better chance to get a working permit. Bonus point got from your recommendation and sponsorship letter and if you had friend, you could ask them to support your migration.
The real challenge lies in this way is the English test since you could add >20% to your total mark. The judgement is based on CLB (Canadian Language Benchmark) but since the applicants mostly are foreigner and took similar test, they can accept IELTS score by given an equivalent, which CLB 9 stand for the highest score while in IELTS, it equivalent to 8.0 on reading, 7.5 on writing, 8.5 on listening, and 7.5 on speaking. TOEFL has no place here since it only accepted in North America region. Those whom English is not their major language will suffer most in speaking, and no matter how great you are to mimic the American or British accent, you will blend your local accent. Another nightmare comes to reading, to score at least 8.5 in order to get the highest mark. Since IELTS grading way has a curve starting from 5, a 8.5 score means you only had three chances over forty questions (37/40). There is another point you can collect from French but if you are never learn about it, it advisable to acquiesce the points, it is not a big deal since you only loss 8%. The opportunity cost is higher and it is not worth it. If you want to learn the language that is okay but if it just for this requirements, it is not favorable. The fastest way to learn a language cost you a year and your time.
The rest is not as hard as you think, most of the applicants already been in job for three to five years, so if your English score is not high enough, there is another way to boost it up. Getting a job has an impact to your score, even if you only spend for one year, they will give you 9% and for more than six year, 15%, another way to score higher in easy way is from your bachelor degree, any four year spent in the university contribute 21% to your total mark, if you took double degree or master you could get 22 to 25%. Your age also important too, they demand productive young generation to contribute to their community. In age, if you be in 18 to 35 range, you get an additional 12%.
The bonus point has 20% in total. 10% you get from the sponsorship from the Company or your friend or relative studying or researching or living as citizen in Canada. While the rest you better ignore since the last 10% is outrageously impossible, especially you were well prepared to work in Canada so before in your student exchange program or international internship program you spent one year there, or you have been working in Canada for at least one year.
My personal score from all those combination, without taking English test is 52%, 9% from 1 to 2 year working experience, 21% from bachelor degree for 4 years , 12% from being in productive age (18 to 35), and 10% from the sponsorship of the relative and company. In order to reach the minimum requirement, i just need 15% to fill the gap. According to this site, i just need to score minimum 6.0 in every subject to get 16% of it. So currently i am working with my IELTS to increase the probability of success.
Since this Visa granted personally, one should be able to own some cash to show that you are independent. There is no perfect amount of how much money an individual needed since the information might be differ. My personal thought that they keep this as a secret but if you know how much it is please let me know and give the credible link about it, thanks. Another cost needed is 1200 CAD for the application and almost forget to mention that this program limited to 8,000 visas per year for all nationalities. According to this website, Starting from January 2016, there were 4449 of invitation were issued on this year. By given chance, a floodgate start to close down in the middle of February. a total of My personal question regarding with that regulation is: For the unfortunate applicants who is not getting bench this year, do they need to take a new application (and the cost) for the next year once the floodgate already closed or not.
Special worker under classification or Business Visitor
You can work in Canada with your Visitor or Temporary work visa if you fall into this category or you are a businessman/ entrepreneur who invest largely of your asset in Canada. Otherwise you can not work without working visa. You can only issue your working visa once company in Canada already announce to sponsor your work and living here. The real challenge of acquiring this working visa is most of the job listed have a little involvement towards Canadian economy just see some such as performer, artist, researcher, music crew, athlete, military personal and on. You could figure out that i also abandon this option.
Certificate or Graduate Programs
Sacrifice describe the best meaning in this program. You can issue your working permit once you have been spending at least 8 months in the Canadian local college or university. The shortest way to obtain your visa is by getting your student visa for one year, attending your college for certificate or graduate degree (some finish in one year). Canadian system sounds fair since you get the work permit equal with the time you spend here for study. Lets take a quick example: One year student program will grant you 8 months work permit, two years program will grant you two years work permit and number change constantly. Imagine right after you graduate from your one year program and you got 8 months work permit, chance to getting a job considered high, especially if your grade distinguish from others. Right after you get a contract from local company, you can renew your working visa according to the duration of contract. The challenge from here is you need to spend at least 5 years to get your PR (Permanent Resident) to secure your position during lay-off or economical crisis period. The margin of error from this way is you need to go back to your country if any company don't want to take you before the visa expires.
If a person real intention just want to get a job in Canada, without dealing with bureaucracy and competing for skilled worker way and also have a saving to survive in one year and more, i would recommend to take the third way. Let's do a simple math here. One year of study for foreigner cost 15,000 CAD a year (may vary depend on the job, art student pay less than others) and for the living cost 10,000 CAD a year. The number may increase or decrease depending on the budget. If you got a job here, i just write the smallest pay job to make the number more realistic, i took the average of 37.5 hours per week, that is 150 work hours per month with the salary of 10 CAD (or more since you are educated you will score double or even triple) you will earn 1500 CAD a month, so that is 18000 CAD a year of rough annual income. However in reality i see on various google site that the lowest rough income individual ever got is 22000 CAD so in order to get a number beautiful, i just rounded to 20000 CAD. Canadian has progressive tax system, and you need to pay 16% of your income if you earn less than 41495 CAD. So in net you will get 17000 CAD. I eliminate the inflation and salary progression variable since the number mostly affect nothing in your account. There would be a bonus and overtime which could generate your income higher. If your net income is 17000 CAD, then you can save 7000 CAD, which your hard work will break even in three or less year.
Everything sounds good when it comes to expectation but one last time to be careful, you need to get a job before your work permit expires. I rode some articles that the racist still happen out there. Especially if your name sounds different (i will not write down since it's racist and you mature enough to understand) from the local, will likely harder to find a job.
There will be much factor to be think about, the economical situation in the country, which led to unemployment and government tighten the rule for immigrant to work inside for example Singapore, a company should meet a specific ratio of local and immigrant. The future economic of Canada since in 2014 the oil price went down sharply, resulting some field of worker need to be lay off and how big the economy rely on it. The competition from local and immigrant, who seek opportunity to get a job is important to think about, before deciding to work there.
I think that's enough for the background about the way to work in Canada, i know there is another way to consider such as Nurse or Caregiver path but i will not describe here since i will not take that way, which wasting my time to do a research in particular issue. I will keep on track with the working visa and will give an update about this. If you have any other suggestion please let me know and i would be welcome to any information. Thanks for reading and hope i could get accepted to work there. See you again.
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