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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by lanresz(m): 12:55pm On Jul 11
This is sad. All these developments are very new. Canadian education like other developed countries ones is not cheap. Working part time to fund education here is almost impossible even for PR and Canadians. When I came as a graduate student with partial funding 21 years ago, students were not allowed to work off campus. So, you are either funded or from a very rich family. It was so bad then to see many places advertising jobs but you can't apply as students. The only solution from the government is to introduce German block system, which will reduce the number of people coming to study in Canada.

affoncad:



Sir/Madam,
Sleeping for two days at a train station is no big deal in canada,. I know a guy who slept at that same train station for a week. Canada is not cheap, and it is not paradise it possible to stay 8 to 11 month as a student without job. Students should come prepared with funding for their education and be well informed that studying in Canada will not guarantee a job to fund their education or PR. Let our people change their mindset, seeing Canada as a place where everything is leisurely. Even now, IRCC has instructed schools to start monitoring student attendance and report any student that misses class or the school licence will be terminated. Canada immigration wants to come out with a firm stand that a study visa is purely for studying!
This young man can still be educated in Nigeria and add French to get PR without all this stress of homelessness. As somebody suggested, the German block system will solve the current problem of students getting stranded due to funding.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by lastkingsman: 2:56pm On Jul 11
affoncad:


The matter is Even if you have PR with full rights to work, it still does not guarantee automatic employment as finding work is no longer easy in canada . A person still struggling to find their footing, and you're suggesting they take a loan that is often associated with high interest and risk ruining their credit score and facing bankruptcy. That's not a good way to start in a new country!

You mean finding professional work or all types of work?

I am here thinking with PR one can grab 'menial' jobs first use am hold body until the desired jobs are secured. It looks like Canada is the worst hit oh with this migration struggle.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by NuCypher: 2:57pm On Jul 11
ednut1:
what happened to the proof of funds shown during application?. I advised two friends to go learn French and do express entry instead of coming to study in one of these mushrooms colleges they didnโ€™t listen and are still hell bent on coming with student visa despite not having the tuition/ pof. Canada needs to introduce blocked accounts like Germany at this point.
There are those who do gift deeds with their friends or family, collect over 20m that they will return the moment they get the visa. They will then be planning to survive for 3 months on a total savings of 5m from Nigeria. When they get to Canada and they see how much rent is, they have no choice but to take some kind of survival job to survive. Ultimately, this creates unnecessary pressure that will only lead to complaints and complaints in the following months. Having enough money to survive the initial stages in Canada is very important. If possible, plan for one year of not working and surviving comfortably. Not 3 months of barely survivable hustle.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by lastkingsman: 3:02pm On Jul 11
ednut1:
those schools have stringent admission requirements and cant admit many people due to space .Unlike the diploma mills who are only after money and admit low quality students.

Unfortunately many of these students were influenced by TikTok, YouTube videos of come to Canada and many unlicensed agents who wanted to get commission. Many from India used their family lands as collateral for loans and cant go back empty handed. Some will resort to crime, some will claim asylum etc.

Also there are about 1.4m students in Canada with yearly quota for economic PR around 500k. Lets say half of those goes to inland candidates. So they are fighting for 250k PR slot. I explained this to my friend but he said โ€œmy case will be different โ€œ ๐Ÿ˜…


I really like our collective optimism as Nigerians even in face of adversity. Lol grin

If you look at it critically, 1.4m students won't be looking for PR in one year as they all didn't come in the same time (year). It will be roughly 1.4m divide by factor of 3 - 4 reducing it to around 300k - 450k students per year.

Might be wrong

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Kenn55: 3:03pm On Jul 11
walenden:


Canada is an overrated hell of a place!. Some people in Nigeria eat better than they do after moving to Canada, but the truth is often hidden as people tend to criticize Nigeria while covering up the realities of life in a place like Canada. My brother had to sleep at a train station in Toronto for two days before finding a temporary place to stay. Even their so-called homeless shelters are filled up and no space . It's a terrible place for any hustler looking to work and study because currently no work and many are jobless . Money wasted on worthless education there is better invested elsewhere! if you go online you will see thousand of job but it all liars and deceivers! . many of you Nigerians aboard please make you guys dey tell people coming the truth and not creating all this fake paradise credit lifestyle online to deceive people back home !!

My brother it is overrated for people who don't have money. If your brother had money, he would have stayed in a hotel, Airbnb,guesthouse while he sorts out his accommodation. Even if you are relocating to Abuja from Lagos and you don't know anyone in Abuja, are you going to sleep in the park for days before you sort out your accommodation? What are hotels for?

If you no get money, stay back in Nigeria, abroad is not for everyone but una no go listen.

I was advising someone who asked for my opinion about the harsh reality of coming to Canada as a broke person, he flipped it back to me asking me why haven't me and my siblings in Canada relocated back to Nigeria. He asked why am I allowing my only sibling remaining in Nigeria and my wife sibling to come to Canada this year and discouraging him.
First of all, I and my siblings here are citizens and well established here. My wife also has a sibling here that is well established. We don tay for Canada. We have advanced in our careers and now high earners. Our siblings are going to live in my house or any of our siblings house and eat free food as they go to school. We have completely paid their school fees and they don't even need to work to survive. Luckily for them, their case is different from many others who don't have these opportunities. But this guy I was advising was making me look like a bad person as if my sibling situation and his own are the same. This is someone who is runsing his POF and is going to come here without money oooo. The good thing is that his school is far from my city so I will be far away from him

The one that pained me is him saying we want only our family to be in Canada. Whaattt!!! Am I the prime minister? He concluded by saying if he survived in Nigeria, he will survive in Canada. By the time he comes here and starts suffering, he will join the Canada is bad and overrated WhatsApp group.

Even though I have been critical of the government contributing to this mess in the last 2 years the onus still fall on the intending immigrants to research and evaluate the worst case scenario before making decisions of that magnitude. But will Nigerians and Indians hear? The answer is NO.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 3:06pm On Jul 11
lastkingsman:



I really like our collective optimism as Nigerians even in face of adversity. Lol grin

If you look at it critically, 1.4m students won't be looking for PR in one year as they all didn't come in the same time (year). It will be roughly 1.4m divide by factor of 3 - 4 reducing it to around 300k - 450k students per year.

Might be wrong
note that there are already people on post graduate work permit looking for PR too. Plus many of the recent students are on one year courses at these colleges , there are also people on work permit looking for PR etc. People on temporary visas are about 2.8m currently if you remove the 1.4m students. You still have 1.4m.

The Indians have started protesting in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan demanding for path to PR.

Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by NuCypher: 4:12pm On Jul 11
lastkingsman:


You mean finding professional work or all types of work?

I am here thinking with PR one can grab 'menial' jobs first use am hold body until the desired jobs are secured. It looks like Canada is the worst hit oh with this migration struggle.

Menial jobs are forever available in Canada. Starting Ubereats, skip, or uber has such low barrier of entry for any PR that anybody that doesn't want to do it and is claiming unemployment is just looking for handouts.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by megastu(m): 6:23pm On Jul 11
That was for people who migrated in 2015-2020.

Even Factory work no dey now sef. You wont see it, at least not in GTA. You will just be spending money doing certifications upon certifications, no work.
lastkingsman:


You mean finding professional work or all types of work?

I am here thinking with PR one can grab 'menial' jobs first use am hold body until the desired jobs are secured. It looks like Canada is the worst hit oh with this migration struggle.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by megastu(m): 6:25pm On Jul 11
No be money dem go take buy car, pay insurance, car maintenance etc. Yes for people who have up to spare 10k you can start but how many have spare $10k after all the expense used in relocating and money set aside for house rent.
NuCypher:

Menial jobs are forever available in Canada. Starting Ubereats, skip, or uber has such low barrier of entry for any PR that anybody that doesn't want to do it and is claiming unemployment is just looking for handouts.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by tensazangetsu20(m): 6:36pm On Jul 11
NuCypher:

Menial jobs are forever available in Canada. Starting Ubereats, skip, or uber has such low barrier of entry for any PR that anybody that doesn't want to do it and is claiming unemployment is just looking for handouts.

Lies wey una go talk dey deceive people for Naija. Anyone who wants to know the truth should just go on Canadian threads on Reddit. Canada is extremely brutal now.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by NuCypher: 6:41pm On Jul 11
megastu:
No be money dem go take buy car, pay insurance, car maintenance etc. Yes for people who have up to spare 10k you can start but how many have spare $10k after all the expense used in relocating and money set aside for house rent.
I don't think you realize there are tons of people doing ubereats and skip in Toronto using a mere bike or scooter. Again, the barrier of entry is way too low for anyone to complain, except they want handouts.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by megastu(m): 6:49pm On Jul 11
N5m is a little under $5000. That will only pay for 2 months' house rent and last month's deposit and winter clothes. The balance wont even feed the person for one month.
NuCypher:

There are those who do gift deeds with their friends or family, collect over 20m that they will return the moment they get the visa. They will then be planning to survive for 3 months on a total savings of 5m from Nigeria. When they get to Canada and they see how much rent is, they have no choice but to take some kind of survival job to survive. Ultimately, this creates unnecessary pressure that will only lead to complaints and complaints in the following months. Having enough money to survive the initial stages in Canada is very important. If possible, plan for one year of not working and surviving comfortably. Not 3 months of barely survivable hustle.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 7:35pm On Jul 11
NuCypher:

I don't think you realize there are tons of people doing ubereats and skip in Toronto using a mere bike or scooter. Again, the barrier of entry is way too low for anyone to complain, except they want handouts.
too many people doing uber with bikes in places like downtown Toronto. You canโ€™t do uber with scooter in large cities because of distance. An ebike is also not cheap o.They are also complaining. But still better than nothing . Students abeg come with money we don tire to dey solve problem wey no concern us ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Kenn55: 7:58pm On Jul 11
lastkingsman:


You mean finding professional work or all types of work?

I am here thinking with PR one can grab 'menial' jobs first use am hold body until the desired jobs are secured. It looks like Canada is the worst hit oh with this migration struggle.


Things are rough right now due to population. However, some people are not helping themselves.
For example, I was talking with a Nigerian HR who talked about a Nigerian babe who is PR and has been looking for job for almost one year.
She sent her a job post to apply but instructed her to send her resume for her to review before she sends her application.

Do you know that the Resume was poorly written? Even the main keywords in the job posting were absent in the Resume. Unfortunately that Resume wouldn't have passed ATS for a human to even see it. She said that is what she has been using to apply for jobs.

A lot of people applying for jobs are just wasting their time. If your resume can't pass the company's ATS, it's just a waste of time. Some people use 1 resume to apply for many jobs, that's waste of application. I don't know if it is laziness or what why someone will use one resume to apply for multiple jobs

Looking for a job is a job on it's own and you have to be very intentional about it especially now there is too much competition. You have to tailor your resume for each job posting by making sure that the main keywords in the job posting appears strategically in your resume otherwise it won't even get past the computer program.

It is stressful to always tweak your resume to match each job application but that is the only way to stand a chance otherwise someone might apply to 100 different jobs and none of the application will be seen by a human being.

Another mistake people make especially those applying for survival jobs is to showcase their high education and experience. If you are applying for low skill jobs to survive, remove your masters degree and your big professional experience from your resume. Create a low key resume Otherwise you will be seen as overqualified and it is not in the company's interest to hire overqualified person cos they believe such a person will be angry at the job and it will affect their productivity.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by tensazangetsu20(m): 8:01pm On Jul 11
ednut1:
too many people doing uber with bikes in places like downtown Toronto. You canโ€™t do uber with scooter in large cities because of distance. An ebike is also not cheap o.They are also complaining. But still better than nothing . Students abeg come with money we don tire to dey solve problem wey no concern us ๐Ÿ˜ญ


Men if it's not the US and on green card I no dey leave Chile Sha cause what the Bleep is this. Person no suffer like this for Nigeria then go come suffer abroad. God abeg.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by oluayebenz: 11:07pm On Jul 11
tensazangetsu20:



Men if it's not the US and on green card I no dey leave Chile Sha cause what the Bleep is this. Person no suffer like this for Nigeria then go come suffer abroad. God abeg.

Without proper plan, the kind suffer wey dey Canada ehn.....
I dey pity many people ehn.,
Oyinbo's sef are not left out

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by tensazangetsu20(m): 11:10pm On Jul 11
oluayebenz:


Without proper plan, the kind suffer wey dey Canada ehn.....
I dey pity many people ehn.,
Oyinbo's sef is not left out

I have a friend here from Canada and she said she's moving to the US immediately she's done with what she's doing in Chile. She speaks about Canada like the way we Nigerians speak of Nigeria. If a white blonde girl with blue eyes is speaking this way hmmm lipsrsealed lipsrsealed
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by lastkingsman: 11:46pm On Jul 11
Kenn55:


Things are rough right now due to population. However, some people are not helping themselves.
For example, I was talking with a Nigerian HR who talked about a Nigerian babe who is PR and has been looking for job for almost one year.
She sent her a job post to apply but instructed her to send her resume for her to review before she sends her application.

Do you know that the Resume was poorly written? Even the main keywords in the job posting were absent in the Resume. Unfortunately that Resume wouldn't have passed ATS for a human to even see it. She said that is what she has been using to apply for jobs.

A lot of people applying for jobs are just wasting their time. If your resume can't pass the company's ATS, it's just a waste of time. Some people use 1 resume to apply for many jobs, that's waste of application. I don't know if it is laziness or what why someone will use one resume to apply for multiple jobs

Looking for a job is a job on it's own and you have to be very intentional about it especially now there is too much competition. You have to tailor your resume for each job posting by making sure that the main keywords in the job posting appears strategically in your resume otherwise it won't even get past the computer program.

It is stressful to always tweak your resume to match each job application but that is the only way to stand a chance otherwise someone might apply to 100 different jobs and none of the application will be seen by a human being.

Another mistake people make especially those applying for survival jobs is to showcase their high education and experience. If you are applying for low skill jobs to survive, remove your masters degree and your big professional experience from your resume. Create a low key resume Otherwise you will be seen as overqualified and it is not in the company's interest to hire overqualified person cos they believe such a person will be angry at the job and it will affect their productivity.

Your reply makes sense
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by lastkingsman: 11:49pm On Jul 11
oluayebenz:


Without proper plan, the kind suffer wey dey Canada ehn.....
I dey pity many people ehn.,
Oyinbo's sef are not left out

You mean the shege no respect skin colour? grin

Na wa oh grin

On a serious note, I can't believe people on PR should be finding it difficult to at least start earning from the system in almost one year.

Some of the things I am reading here are shocking. If na student visa I can understand because of recent cost of living, pending tuition fees and work hour restrictions but PR? Na wa oh

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by lastkingsman: 11:54pm On Jul 11
Kenn55:


....

I was advising someone who asked for my opinion about the harsh reality of coming to Canada as a broke person, he flipped it back to me asking me why haven't me and my siblings in Canada relocated back to Nigeria. He asked why am I allowing my only sibling remaining in Nigeria and my wife sibling to come to Canada this year and discouraging him.
First of all, I and my siblings here are citizens and well established here. My wife also has a sibling here that is well established. We don tay for Canada. We have advanced in our careers and now high earners. Our siblings are going to live in my house or any of our siblings house and eat free food as they go to school. We have completely paid their school fees and they don't even need to work to survive. Luckily for them, their case is different from many others who don't have these opportunities. But this guy I was advising was making me look like a bad person as if my sibling situation and his own are the same. This is someone who is runsing his POF and is going to come here without money oooo. The good thing is that his school is far from my city so I will be far away from him

....

Hehehehehehehehehe grin
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by lastkingsman: 11:56pm On Jul 11
ednut1:
note that there are already people on post graduate work permit looking for PR too. Plus many of the recent students are on one year courses at these colleges , there are also people on work permit looking for PR etc. People on temporary visas are about 2.8m currently if you remove the 1.4m students. You still have 1.4m.

The Indians have started protesting in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan demanding for path to PR.

Wahala dey. If the far right mistakenly grab power, they might even reduce the PR quota further. It's well
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by megastu(m): 2:36am On Jul 12
E be like why all the applications i don send no human don say hello to me.

The only thing i get is all these scam recruiters who will texting you with job offers.
Kenn55:


Things are rough right now due to population. However, some people are not helping themselves.
For example, I was talking with a Nigerian HR who talked about a Nigerian babe who is PR and has been looking for job for almost one year.
She sent her a job post to apply but instructed her to send her resume for her to review before she sends her application.

Do you know that the Resume was poorly written? Even the main keywords in the job posting were absent in the Resume. Unfortunately that Resume wouldn't have passed ATS for a human to even see it. She said that is what she has been using to apply for jobs.

A lot of people applying for jobs are just wasting their time. If your resume can't pass the company's ATS, it's just a waste of time. Some people use 1 resume to apply for many jobs, that's waste of application. I don't know if it is laziness or what why someone will use one resume to apply for multiple jobs

Looking for a job is a job on it's own and you have to be very intentional about it especially now there is too much competition. You have to tailor your resume for each job posting by making sure that the main keywords in the job posting appears strategically in your resume otherwise it won't even get past the computer program.

It is stressful to always tweak your resume to match each job application but that is the only way to stand a chance otherwise someone might apply to 100 different jobs and none of the application will be seen by a human being.

Another mistake people make especially those applying for survival jobs is to showcase their high education and experience. If you are applying for low skill jobs to survive, remove your masters degree and your big professional experience from your resume. Create a low key resume Otherwise you will be seen as overqualified and it is not in the company's interest to hire overqualified person cos they believe such a person will be angry at the job and it will affect their productivity.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by willyblinx(m): 3:38am On Jul 12
walenden:


Canada is an overrated hell of a place!. Some people in Nigeria eat better than they do after moving to Canada, but the truth is often hidden as people tend to criticize Nigeria while covering up the realities of life in a place like Canada. My brother had to sleep at a train station in Toronto for two days before finding a temporary place to stay. Even their so-called homeless shelters are filled up and no space . It's a terrible place for any hustler looking to work and study because currently no work and many are jobless . Money wasted on worthless education there is better invested elsewhere! if you go online you will see thousand of job but it all liars and deceivers! . many of you Nigerians aboard please make you guys dey tell people coming the truth and not creating all this fake paradise credit lifestyle online to deceive people back home !!


Even when most of you are told, you'd respond with "Make I enter first, we go run am" or " You don Japa, you no want another person to Japa"

Canada required you to have POF. They know the country is not easy thus requested you have enough money that would last you a while. You claimed you had when you sent fake POF. Alas! reality is different.

Next thing, your brother would open a YouTube channel about how Canada is not easy.

Canada is not a place you do " Let's get there first, we'd find a way" if you are hoping on such you better be ready to face it too if it fails. People wey prepare still dey struggle to talk of.

Make your brother still dey apply and stay positive because it can become frustrating. Always remember why he left, his goal or purpose. We pray he finds something soonest.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by jasperonyx: 7:01am On Jul 12
I really pity new PR person that will come here looking for encouragement.

He will meet the jobless one,who has become bitter and think his reality is same with others.


The one that doesn't even live in canada, but he is just here to talk down on canada, how so so and so is better, or even how is better to stay in Nigeria.

You don't live in Canada, why are you here?
Dont you have work?

Its not easy anywhere right now in the world, the economy is affected everywhere.

People in the US are talking about how biden messed their economy, It wont be hard for most nigerians living there because of their survival skilss.

People in Uk are talking about how its not easy.
France also, at least from a personal experience.

If Canada government thinks that there is nothing for anyone anymore, the least they will do is to stop PR pathway.

If you dont have a job,ask yourself what you have been doing wrong.
There is something for everyone.
My friend coming into Ontario this month, already have two job offers from toronto, dont ask me the salary, what matters is that she did.

Ify got her job within 2 months of moving to Nova Scotia and thats because she needs something better, she would have taken anything.

I can understand students, but PR holders ranting here?

No way.

Like someone said, stop looking for a handout.

Oh, before you say that its my friend my friend, yes, i'm good with that, i have a lot of positive story than negative.

If people can come here and get so discouraged from comments here, people can also get encouraged by people ' stories too.

I called Sarah last night, i told her to avoid this group for now ๐Ÿคฃ, as a new PR, here is the last place she should be.

I'm moving to ottawa with hope, my field is kind of different, but i already got recruiters reaching out.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by jasperonyx: 7:03am On Jul 12
willyblinx:



Even when most of you are told, you'd respond with "Make I enter first, we go run am" or " You don Japa, you no want another person to Japa"

Canada required you to have POF. They know the country is not easy thus requested you have enough money that would last you a while. You claimed you had when you sent fake POF. Alas! reality is different.

Next thing, your brother would open a YouTube channel about how Canada is not easy.

Canada is not a place you do " Let's get there first, we'd find a way" if you are hoping on such you better be ready to face it too if it fails. People wey prepare still dey struggle to talk of.

Make your brother still dey apply and stay positive because it can become frustrating. Always remember why he left, his goal or purpose. We pray he finds something soonest.
He will, Time will tell.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by njambert: 8:36am On Jul 12
And I also read American threads alot and Americans qualify their own country as third world country and wanting out. At the end of the day, we need to focus on our goals and not be overly concerned about the negative thoughts on social media. If we focus on them you would think North America is hell haha.

tensazangetsu20:


I have a friend here from Canada and she said she's moving to the US immediately she's done with what she's doing in Chile. She speaks about Canada like the way we Nigerians speak of Nigeria. If a white blonde girl with blue eyes is speaking this way hmmm lipsrsealed lipsrsealed

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by njambert: 8:50am On Jul 12
I'm a PR holder without a job after a year, but I am that way partly by my own design. I had enough POF, plus my wife worked for 4months when we got here before going on a year Maternity Live and we live comfortably. However, stakes may change in a few months time if I don't get one. I have really only applied for last 3months out of the 13 I have been here and still not very consistently, mainly because I decided I don't want survival jobs, but upskill really well to get the high end tech jobs( Cloud roles).I have used resume coaches and softwares and I'm getting really good skillwise that even if I lie on the resume, I could still do a very good defense at the interview.

My applications have changed from automatic rejections( likely not passing ATS) to well crafted rejection letters. I believe with grit and patience I will start receiving interviews not too long from now.I am networking and attending conferences, and creating some content on linkedin aswell.
If any of you have any more suggestions please let me know.

jasperonyx:
I really pity new PR person that will come here looking for encouragement.

He will meet the jobless one,who has become bitter and think his reality is same with others.


The one that doesn't even live in canada, but he is just here to talk down on canada, how so so and so is better, or even how is better to stay in Nigeria.

You don't live in Canada, why are you here?
Dont you have work?

Its not easy anywhere right now in the world, the economy is affected everywhere.

People in the US are talking about how biden messed their economy, It wont be hard for most nigerians living there because of their survival skilss.

People in Uk are talking about how its not easy.
France also, at least from a personal experience.

If Canada government thinks that there is nothing for anyone anymore, the least they will do is to stop PR pathway.

If you dont have a job,ask yourself what you have been doing wrong.
There is something for everyone.
My friend coming into Ontario this month, already have two job offers from toronto, dont ask me the salary, what matters is that she did.

Ify got her job within 2 months of moving to Nova Scotia and thats because she needs something better, she would have taken anything.

I can understand students, but PR holders ranting here?

No way.

Like someone said, stop looking for a handout.

Oh, before you say that its my friend my friend, yes, i'm good with that, i have a lot of positive story than negative.

If people can come here and get so discouraged from comments here, people can also get encouraged by people ' stories too.

I called Sarah last night, i told her to avoid this group for now ๐Ÿคฃ, as a new PR, here is the last place she should be.

I'm moving to ottawa with hope, my field is kind of different, but i already got recruiters reaching out.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by House34: 11:00am On Jul 12
njambert:
And I also read American threads alot and Americans qualify their own country as third world country and wanting out. At the end of the day, we need to focus on our goals and not be overly concerned about the negative thoughts on social media. If we focus on them you would think North America is hell haha.


Let's put sentiment aside and face reality. People sharing their life difficulties and challenges on social media are not expressing negative thoughts; they are reflecting the current situation in Canada. Ignoring warning signs and critical information can leave anybody, especially students, stranded. Canada of ten years ago is not the Canada of today. People stay in survival jobs for longer periods as alternatives become harder and more difficult to find. Most information shared here is reality, not just thoughts. Anyone coming to Canada now should be prepared physically, financially, and mentally
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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by jasperonyx: 11:58am On Jul 12
njambert:
I'm a PR holder without a job after a year, but I am that way partly by my own design. I had enough POF, plus my wife worked for 4months when we got here before going on a year Maternity Live and we live comfortably. However, stakes may change in a few months time if I don't get one. I have really only applied for last 3months out of the 13 I have been here and still not very consistently, mainly because I decided I don't want survival jobs, but upskill really well to get the high end tech jobs( Cloud roles).I have used resume coaches and softwares and I'm getting really good skillwise that even if I lie on the resume, I could still do a very good defense at the interview.

My applications have changed from automatic rejections( likely not passing ATS) to well crafted rejection letters. I believe with grit and patience I will start receiving interviews not too long from now.I am networking and attending conferences, and creating some content on linkedin aswell.
If any of you have any more suggestions please let me know.

Amen to your prayers.

I know you from Express entry thread,lol.

In Edmonton, and love homeschooling ๐Ÿ˜.


I got great connections on LinkedIn, i spoke with about two people that are doing very well within 5yrs, i asked them what they did differently, its been helpful.

The last you wrote about your journey, you talked about Cloud Engineering, i hope you find that thing you are looking for soon, its out there.

Good luck Man.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Thefarmer3: 12:55pm On Jul 12
jasperonyx:
I really pity new PR person that will come here looking for encouragement.

He will meet the jobless one,who has become bitter and think his reality is same with others.


The one that doesn't even live in canada, but he is just here to talk down on canada, how so so and so is better, or even how is better to stay in Nigeria.

You don't live in Canada, why are you here?
Dont you have work?

Its not easy anywhere right now in the world, the economy is affected everywhere.

People in the US are talking about how biden messed their economy, It wont be hard for most nigerians living there because of their survival skilss.

People in Uk are talking about how its not easy.
France also, at least from a personal experience.

If Canada government thinks that there is nothing for anyone anymore, the least they will do is to stop PR pathway.

If you dont have a job,ask yourself what you have been doing wrong.
There is something for everyone.
My friend coming into Ontario this month, already have two job offers from toronto, dont ask me the salary, what matters is that she did.

Ify got her job within 2 months of moving to Nova Scotia and thats because she needs something better, she would have taken anything.

I can understand students, but PR holders ranting here?

No way.

Like someone said, stop looking for a handout.

Oh, before you say that its my friend my friend, yes, i'm good with that, i have a lot of positive story than negative.

If people can come here and get so discouraged from comments here, people can also get encouraged by people ' stories too.

I called Sarah last night, i told her to avoid this group for now ๐Ÿคฃ, as a new PR, here is the last place she should be.

I'm moving to ottawa with hope, my field is kind of different, but i already got recruiters reaching out.


Thanks so much for this.

God bless you bro
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 1:32pm On Jul 12
Sugar daddy on the beat ๐Ÿ˜‚

Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by affoncad: 1:58pm On Jul 12
ednut1:
Sugar daddy on the beat ๐Ÿ˜‚

Canadian has commited over $12.5billion to ukraine and this Five hundred million that could help Canadians facing difficult challenges now, and what pains me more is the lack of accountability for all this money given to Ukraine, which has a very corrupt system just like Nigeria. It's so sad!! sad

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