Is it difficult for Canadian students to find jobs?

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The difficulty of finding a job should be discussed from several dimensions. First, it's not easy to find a job, whether it's Canadian or China, whether it's Toronto or Peking. And it's not easy to work better than at home (if you think your work is better at home). I made a special statistic. When I was looking for a job in Beijing this year, I submitted about 70 resumes, which lasted about 5 months (before graduation). When I changed jobs in Beijing, I submitted 60 resumes and searched for half a year. After graduating from Canada, I submitted about 100 resumes in Toronto, and it took about 10 months to find them (but I didn't respond in the first three or four months, so I gave up my original job search direction, attended a training class, learned some simple data analysis languages, and spent three months studying, during which I didn't submit resumes. After learning well, I began to submit resumes in new directions and found a job three months later. So on the whole, I think there is no difference in the difficulty of finding a job between China and Canada. The difference may be that you can find a "good" job, which is called the ceiling. After all, you are looking for a job in a second language, so you have some disadvantages in the competition. For example, the work in Canada is not as good as that in China (but this disadvantage is definitely smaller than you think, because Canada is an immigrant country, too many people work in a second language, and enterprises are used to it, so as long as your work is not very dependent on language expression, and then your language can fully meet your real job responsibilities, then this disadvantage is actually not great). The second dimension is specialty. The difficulty of finding a job in different majors is completely different. As we all know, business is not easy to find, which is a fact. Except those who have already returned to China, most international business students I know and heard are looking for jobs for six months to one year. But even if it is hard to find, one-third of my classmates (masters in business) have returned to China, one-third have disappeared (maybe they didn't find a real job, or they had to endure inhuman abuse under a small Chinese boss in order to immigrate), and one-third have found a real job (the black-hearted company of a small Chinese boss doesn't wash dishes, and about one-third have found an entry-level position in a well-known big company). Of course, if science and engineering need to be subdivided, it will be much easier to find subjectively. I'm not a science major, so let's just give a first-hand example. Local diploma in civil engineering found a serious job in a construction company in Edmonton; Have a domestic bachelor's degree and domestic work experience, and nuclear power engineers can directly find jobs in nuclear power plants; IT majors are more popular. Some experienced and high-level programmers in China found jobs directly without going to school here (all of them got pr directly in China, more than one example). This year's students, like us, either quit their jobs and re-study computer science from scratch (they all studied for diplomas in college), and also found jobs in small and medium-sized it companies, banks, public transport systems and so on. There are countless graduates who can't find relevant jobs (the worst is desk support, helping colleagues repair computers, reinstall systems and repair printers, and the salary is really low, but after all, it is a minority). All the above are about China students (or new immigrants), and most of them are first-hand information. I came here with your mentality, the bottom line is that I can emigrate, and finally I found a job that is really not so good but still higher than expected (small company, white boss, low salary, long working hours (lower salary than in China, longer working hours than in China), but no overtime, no squeezing outside the work contract). The third dimension is personal ability and luck. Even if they all come from the same major, some people just learn very well, their major is hard, and their English is very good. This kind of person undoubtedly went straight to a good company. Some people can't even learn English in a muddle, so they will have to spend more time and their work will be much worse. If you are good enough, go to Waterloo to study CS, and Amazon will leave before you graduate. If you are a college student, you still muddle along every day. After graduation, you can't speak English fluently, and even the boss with a dirty heart in China thinks that you are too poor in oil and water and your work is too bad (I know these two words first hand). The gap is so big that I think everyone can understand. But generally speaking, all the people I know, as long as they come to study, study hard and graduate, and their majors are not too watery (such as diplomas or research papers promoted by intermediaries such as economics, business, hotel management and tourism management in universities), have directly or indirectly found serious jobs (being serious doesn't mean being good, the bottom line is that my current job is indirectly squeezed by a small boss in China for a year and then quit, and this is the floor. If you have a picky attitude and you are determined to immigrate successfully, then I can guarantee that you can find a job that can support yourself. This job is not necessarily good, but it is by no means the job of moving bricks and washing dishes in the factory for a lifetime rumored by the intermediary or the older generation of immigrants.