How to play an advantage in the employment of overseas returnees studying in Canada?

May I introduce you to study in Canada? Returnees? How to give full play to its advantages in employment, hoping to help students studying abroad. Want to know more about the wonderful content of studying abroad, and give you detailed answers. Returning to China after graduation, without any work experience, seems to have no advantage compared with domestic graduates. Stay in the local area, worried that employers are hard to find, and considering the issue of work visas. Then, how should students highlight their advantages when studying in Canada? Canada's unique CO-OP system (paid internship course) can solve this embarrassing situation.

What is a cooperative?

CO-OP is actually the abbreviation of cooperative education, which means? Paid internship? It is a very popular teaching mode in North America, which combines academic and practical work. Students who participate in the CO-OP program will be assigned to work in the corresponding company by the school during their school days, accumulate practical experience, and get a certain salary while getting credits. During this period, students need to report their work to the school regularly. After the cooperation project is completed, students will receive a certificate of completion jointly issued by the school and the internship company.

In Canada, this teaching mode was first introduced from the United States by the University of Waterloo 1957. At first, there was only engineering. This teaching mode not only achieves the purpose of applying what you have learned, but also creates opportunities for enterprises to discover and cultivate talents in advance. So it was welcomed by students and enterprises from the beginning.

At present, more than 100 institutions offer cooperative courses, and the focus has gradually shifted from universities to colleges.

In fact, the CO-OP course is not easy to apply for, and it takes a lot of perseverance to stick to it, but a large number of students still flock to it every year. What charm does it have for international students? -The outstanding advantages of cooperatives are mainly reflected in the following aspects:

Accumulate practical experience, expand social circle, develop contacts and broaden horizons.

CO-OP program allows students to alternate between classes and working semesters, so that they can not only learn knowledge in class, but also gain work experience and experience related to what they have learned. In the process of working, students not only gain practical knowledge, but also get in touch with the working environment and mode in Canada, which broadens their horizons, and at the same time, they get in touch with more friends and social circles and accumulate good interpersonal relationships.

Improve the success rate of employment

In today's increasingly fierce employment competition, university cooperatives have become a hot employment weapon, which can be a stepping stone or a guiding stone for personal career planning. Statistics show that students who participate in CO-OP are not only more likely to find corresponding jobs, but also have higher starting salaries than ordinary graduates.

Some students just want to graduate as soon as possible, do not want to spend more time doing CO-OP, and prefer to study for credits. I didn't expect to graduate early but didn't get any benefits. I just tasted unemployment before others. Because looking for a job in North America, employers attach great importance to experience, many majors, such as computer, accounting, engineering and so on. Joining a cooperative is almost the only way to find a job.

Almost all companies will give priority to their cooperative students when recruiting employees. Because CO-OP students have a deep understanding of the company's business and projects, and have proved their ability to work. Even if the company has no recruitment plan, CO-OP's real work experience is a solid foundation for applying for other companies.

Take a certain salary to relieve the economic pressure.

Nowadays, many international students are working families, and parents are frugal in sending their children abroad. It is much more difficult for international students to apply for scholarships than for local students. Cooperatives provide students with the opportunity to earn living expenses with their own hands, reducing the economic pressure on families. Generally, the salary of paid internship is 15-20 Canadian dollars/hour, and the annual income of paid internship is generally around 20 thousand Canadian dollars, and the diligent and excellent students can even reach as high as 40 thousand Canadian dollars. For some basic universities with relatively low tuition fees, they can basically afford the expenses for the coming year. And because you are a student, you can generally get a tax refund.

Help immigrants settle down after graduation.

As a mainstream immigrant country, Canada's safe and stable social environment and superior social welfare policies have always been the advantages to attract immigrants from China. However, due to the tightening of immigration policy in recent years, both federal experienced immigrants and provincial nomination projects have greatly raised the application threshold and implemented the quota system, resulting in the road to Canada changing from the old road to today's single-plank bridge. However, Canada's demand for outstanding talents remains unchanged. Under the background of the tightening of traditional immigration policy, the work visa for international students has been relaxed.

According to the current regulations of the Canadian federal government, international students who have studied full-time for more than 2 years and obtained a college diploma or above can get a work visa for up to 3 years, and they can apply for experience immigration after working for 1 year or more. Students who participate in paid internships have more advantages in employment and are more likely to realize their dream of immigrating to Canada.

Return to China for employment and avoid it? Turtle? Change? Kelp?

According to the survey report, at present, the starting salary of Chinese returnees is about 3,000 yuan, 7 1% of them earn between 3,000 yuan and 10000 yuan, more than 40% earn less than 5,000 yuan, and only 15% earn more than 10000 yuan. A considerable number of returnees have transformed after returning to China? Little white collar? , even become? Kelp? .

The main reason why it is difficult for returnees to find jobs is that more and more enterprises no longer only value the qualifications of job seekers, but also value their abilities and experience. A considerable number of students who return to China after graduation have only one foreign education, which is not much different from the competitiveness of ordinary local graduates. However, returnees with relevant professional work experience obviously have a large income gap with those without work experience, so it is easier to integrate into local foreign-funded enterprises and bring back excellent foreign management models.