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Advice to Recruiters

If you are a recruiter, I think you will get more bites if you mention the following in your ad:

Is American citizenship required?
Is it possible to telecommute?
What is the approximate compensation range?
What city will you work in? Large US cities have a poor international reputation for safety and cleanliness.
In as much detail as you can without giving away the name of the employer, what sort of work will you be doing? What is the project? There are ethical concerns, concerns about social responsibility, and of course challenging fun. For people willing to pick up and move to a new continent, theses issues may be much more important than usual.

If you are sending an email to recruit, every tiny thing you do to personalise it will pay off. Anything that looks like a form letter usually goes straight to the trash. Even something as simple as starting it with the person’s name e.g. “Roedy,” will help you get your foot in the door.

Advice To Canadians

If you are a Canadian wanting to work in the USA, NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement) has made life somewhat easier. If you telecommute from Canada, there is no paperwork. If you want to work physically in the US, here is what you need:

Proof of Canadian citizenship.
Proof of technical degree.
Job requisition that is specific to what applicant will be doing. Specific language is required; you should check with the INS (Immigration and Naturalisation Service).
Letter of employment from a US company.
Apply for a TN visa at INS. A TN visa is renewable on a yearly basis.

Advice to Job Applicants

Focus most of your resume not so much on how wonderful you are, but on how wonderful you think the company is you want to work for. Talk about why of all places in the universe you could work, you most want to work for them.
Hand deliver your resume. Include a photo with your resume. If you can find any excuse to hang around and make yourself useful that will give you more brownie points than anything. Hiring decisions in small companies are made just as much on your personality as your qualifications.
Use expensive heavy paper. Use expensive binding.
Try to find out as much as possible about what they need. Prune your resume of irrelevancies, pad it up on areas important to them. There is almost no point in handing in a completely uncustomised resume.
In the early part of the interview, take charge. Steer it so that you are asking them questions about whether this job would really be suitable for you. Before you know it, they will be trying desperately to convince you to work for them.
In the later part of the interview, try to get the conversation around to precisely what work you will be doing. Start discussing your work as if you had already been hired. This impresses them with your get-on-with-it attitude, and subtlely makes them think they already have hired you.
Freely admit to small faults.
Avoid asking questions about vacations, coffee breaks or hours of work during the interview. You can safely ask “Will I have access to the computers after hours?”

I get job offers all the time. Why?

I help newbies in newsgroups. I am perceived as competent and co-operative.
I have a website where I offer information about Java. This makes me an automatic expert.
I offer free software with source. People can see the quality of my work. It proves I know what I am doing.
I was on the executive of two different computer clubs.
I wrote a column for a Canada-wide computer newspaper.
These are long term strategies, but if you follow them, you won’t have to strugglse to find work.

Advice for the Inexperienced

You were recently paying huge amounts of money to a school to learn. Now you expect to overnight get paid huge amounts of money to continue your apprenticeship? You won’t really be much use to your employer for yet another year. You must convince your potential employer that you are likely to hang around at least two years so he gets some payback on his investment in educating you. This is one of the reasons why it is so important in your resume to focus on why you want to work at the company.
Consider a period where you do work for charities for free. You get work experience. Your errors and delays will be forgiven. You will meet some of the wealthy people in your community, and they will see you in a good light. You can gradually work into paying contracts.
When you work for yourself, clients are far less interested in your past experience. If you don’t perform; they don’t pay. At first, severely underbid to get work. Consider a period of self-employment to gain work experience. Warning, after working for yourself, the restrictions of employment may seem too onerous ever after.

Job Listings

monster.com American Job listings
monster.ca Canadian Job listings
Just Java Jobs
JobShark Canadian jobs
Net Temps temporary jobs
JobServe UK jobs
elance bid to do projects.
CareerJet UK job search engine.

Headhunters

Headhunters make a commission from the employer if they find you a job. They are mainly of use for higher end jobs.
Philip Siniscalchi of Drexel Technical Associates.
Jack Klein of Technical Placement, Inc.
Mike Diamond of Technical Placement, Inc.
Anna Karoutsos.
Scott Guelker of Advent Global, consulting firm.

Jobs In Canada

With the rise of fascism in America, many people are looking to get out. Canada is the logical choice since there is no language barrier and the culture is familiar. The best programming jobs are in Toronto. Toronto has a hellish climate, hot and humid in summer, and bitter cold in winter, however, this may be quite tolerable to someone used to life on the east coast of North America. Alberta is a boom and bust economy, now going through a boom, so it is easy to get a job in any trade. BC has the mildest climate. Its economy is recovering but is not rolling. Be aware that America has the treaty right to draft its citizens even after they have emmigrated to Canada. To escape that, you will have to go further afield. It is fairly easy for Americans to emmigrate to Canada. Read theSelf-Counsel Press books for details.

recommend book⇒Immigrating to Canada: Who Is Allowed? What Is Required? How to Do It

by:

Gary L. Segal

978-1-55180-180-3

paperback

publisher:

Self-Counsel Press

978-0-88908-675-3

hardcover

published:

2006-01

Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

recommend book⇒Canadian Immigration Made Easy: How to Immigrate into Canada (All Classes) with Employment Search Strategies for Skilled Workers

by:

Tariq Nadeem

978-0-9733140-0-7

paperback

publisher:

Self-Help Publisher

published:

2003-05-31

Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

recommend book⇒Immigrating to Canada and Finding Employment: A Do-It-Yourself Kit for Skilled Workers under the Latest Immigration Policy. A Step-by-Step Settlement & Job Search Guide - A 3 in 1 Publication, Revised Edition

by:

Tariq Nadeem

978-0-9733140-2-1

paperback

publisher:

Self-Help Publisher

published:

2003-06-30

Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

recommend book⇒How to immigrate into Canada:

by:

Gary L. Segal

978-0-88908-010-2

paperback

publisher:

International Self-Counsel Press

published:

1974

Out of print

Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

recommend book⇒Living and Working in Canada

by:

Graeme Chesters

978-1-901130-37-9

paperback

(born: 1963 age: 48)

publisher:

Survival Books

published:

2003-07-25

Rather silly cover full of tourist stereotypes. I don’t know what It is like inside.

Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock

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