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- -leah-
ok so i have recently had ANOTHER career change, I am working at a temp agency doing reference checks for people who have applied to work for us.
anyways so i am going through peoples applications and there are so many people who moved here from india, pakistan, etc who have their masters degrees, doctorates ect, and their jobs in their home countries had been lab managers, presidents of large companies, etc. and their previous work experience in canada is at gas stations, meat packing plants and other crappy jobs. i feel so bad for these people! if i was in their position i would go insane! i would be like "i have so much education and work experience and this is the kind of job i can get here in this "land of oportunity"?"
end rant.
- Spix0
not fair at all.
- mrdobolina0
it's the chance they took apparently.
- mrdobolina0
btw, America is the land of opportunity ;)
- -leah-0
bah mrdobolina! we are too! :P
- mayo0
perhaps other conditions of where they lived made life more unbearable than having a (hopefully temporary) undesirable job (in their eyes) in a place they would much rather be.
- mrdobolina0
hahah, the land of back bacon. ;)
- cosmo0
sad.
- -leah-0
there has been a lot of coverage on this subject by canada's public broadcasting network (CBC) and most of the people interviewed say they were mislead before they came here. they were expecting to get a simular job as what they had in their home job because that is what they were told by their consulates...
- unfittoprint0
On a construction site of a project I helped developing, there were many workers from Ukraine. I talked to a few, and one of the most hard working of them used to be a maestro from a philarmonic orchestra. Others were engineers, doctors...
that shit almost brought me to tears. and a new sense of humility.
- cosmo0
do these ppl get hired at all?
- -leah-0
yah they get hired in production or office area's, but nothing near to what they are qualified for.
- -sputnik-0
// begin scrooge rant
i used to hear the same exact stuff in miami...cuban, venezuelan and other immigrants could do nothing more than become plumbers etc. even if they were doctors, lawyers or architects in their homeland.
first problem is the language barrier...most never master english which limits them. i lived next to an unemployed woman for 6 years who was an architect in venezuela...she simply didn't learn enough english to pass the license in the US. 6 years?
second is that the standards for acquiring a doctor's, lawyer's etc license there is FAR different than our standards here.
on one hand it is totally unfair...on the other, i wouldn't want licenses to be given away to people with substandard skills, or to people i can't communicate with.
end scrooge rant //
- JazX0
*see stop complaining thread
- cosmo0
i mean there has to be a reason in why they r not getting hired? is the job market that bad there?
- unfittoprint0
depends.
education standards were/are far higher in the Eastern Europe than here.
- -leah-0
jazx i am not compaining, i am bringing up a relevent issue so that people may discuss their feelings towards this.
- jox0
Not just Canada, same thing everywhere.
Sadly, it's plain racism. Doesn't have anything to do with language barriers or whether their diploma is legit. It's about skin color and your descent's reputation. I don't see any German, French, Dutch or Italian immigrants with a masters being unemployed. I'm sure its the same thing over there.
It sucks, and if all that wasted potential and intelligence was put to use, we would get somewhere in this world.
- JazX0
yeah and you're bringing it up at a Design/Programming site, thanks for playing...
- cosmo0
high five jox.
- -leah-0
exactly jox, i never see people who are from germany or france etc because they are way more "hire-able" it is pure racism.