Welcome to a lecture essential Strategies for Success in your job search. In this section, we will learn how to prepare for your career in Canada. How to develop your soft skills. What is job versity how to connect with Canada employers how to use you educational credential evaluation in your job search in Canada, the top 400 employers in Canada how to find the contact information for Canadian employers and the recommend tools that we suggest. And finally, we'll learn something about cold calling an email script and a topic about survival jobs in Canada as enter into this section in this lecture, We'll learn how to prepare for your career in Canada. Preparing for your career in Canada.
All the main things you need to do is you need to do your research. You need to research the labor market. You also need to research about your career in Canada, the opportunities and requirements that employers are looking for in professionals like you. You also need to build your network. And we'll explore some advice about how to build your network in Canada, even if you are living outside of Canada and you're free to explore programs and services. Not only the the brands that we have mentioned throughout the course, but also all the programs that you can find on the internet or searching for a job opportunity in Canada.
When it comes to do your research, you need to compare your profession. And the way to do it is you will need to know your education in comparison to the Canadian education for your profession in Canada. The required skills, the optional skills, the responsibility and expectation from employers or from professionals in Canada. The requirements license or designation, communication and terminology to use in your professional in Canada. So you were aware of that and how can you interact with your colleagues? It's important to understand that most of the information in your research can be found in tools like the job bank, Canada.
When you're such a banker we saw in previous lecture, we'll be able to determine the requirements and you'll see responsibility expectation about education. If you need a license or not. What is the nature You can get also when it comes to communication, deliver of English of French, and Watson you can do to improve your language skills in your especially in your area of expertise. What to consider when researching. Consider the location in Canada, where you're going to practice your profession, the employment prospects in that location, and also for the occupation, where you search and do the investigation. You can find out work places in Canada have a high demand for your occupation.
So those have to be one of the main motivator for an immigrant coming to Canada burness thinking about the city, that you plan to come to Canada to think about the places in Canada that have a high demand for your occupation. Those are the places that you need to start to focus on because there's gonna give you an advantage when it comes to competing for employment in Canada. And also if you're looking to secure a job before coming to Canada, then you're going to be looking for those employers are really willing to hire people from abroad. So it's important to understand the employment prospect of your occupation in Canada. And for that you need to do a research. The essential skill and qualifications again, using the NOC, the job bank, Canada, and other tools that we talk about during the course, I help you determine was such a skill that you need.
And if you lacking any of those skills, then you need to find out when you can get those skills for now, psi of Canada and also any institution in Canada or online sources, common job titles, and the NOC might help you on that. Different job titles might refer to the same profession, but they're gonna be in the details. So the responsibilities are theories and requirements of the occupation. emerging trends as another thing that you need to consider when you're researching. If your occupation in high demand is going to trend higher, or lower, for example, and just to make an example here, we know that the population in Canada is increasing, which means Kafka will be a industry high demand in Canada in the coming years, which means people that are specializing healthcare, like nurses, caregivers, and other professionals, therapists, my help secure opportunities in in the future job market in Canada.
Compensation is also important to compare prices and there's a lot of tools like last door a random comport so there's a lot of research and some of these tools On report are included in the course, where you can go over the prices of your services in terms of wages and salaries. And that way you can have a better prospect of your occupation, and how much you can earn your occupation as far as you made the requirements of your job. When you're applying transferable skills, transferable skills are those skills developed in one situation or occupation that can be transferred to another context. If you're working in hospitality, you probably a very good customer service. You can transfer that to any other industry. So that's it don't always kill.
Easily computer skills can be transferable skills. Speaking civil language can be referenced skills, skills in math, programming, so there's several different skills you can use. In order to pursue a career in Canada, and you need to include those in your resume when applying for jobs in Canada. Before that, you're going to need to tap into your transferable skills. You need to understand your qualifications again in a sea freshener or associations in Canada and serve your professional MBA guy about the qualifications. And you need to consider career opportunities.
And sometimes of career opportunity means getting positions that are probably lower than what you're doing in your own country by just a stepping stone into getting into the industry. So consider that a part of your strategy into security job in Canada, understanding your qualifications. When it comes to understanding your qualifications. You need to review your previous work experience. You need to research the labor market before to assess area for fallen development. Those areas that you seem to lack You need to seek opportunities to develop your skills through voluntary job through taking more classes outside Canada and also to internships if they are available when you are writing.
Documenting skills within retain and you need to document all the skills that you obtain in the quarter you do not have a comb, or any any kind of education or training that can enhance your resume and your work experience. Assess the skills in your interpersonal skills, you may use self assessments tests and also you can review your job requirements. The job requirements are the most popular posts that you find that you feel you can meet the requirements. Just review the job requirements and then you See was killed and employers are looking for which skills are in demand. If you do the good research, you will find out what requirements are the most common and the skills related to those requirements. And damac may help you do a bit of a plan.
In order for you to get ready for the Canadian labor market, you also need to determine your gaps of studies, the time that you takes for you to work experience. If you were being out of the industry for a while, for example, you have some experiencing computer but you've been working in another area, then you understand that whatever you learn, years ago might not be up to date now and you need to then look for information and training that can keep you up to date in rent to enter similar position in Canada. sum total you can find is the Government of Canada, they have a website. And the link is included in the lecture when they have tools assessing and turning support just regular information for different province. And also, at the provincial level, Alberta have total sources of tools that you can use also, just to have an idea of your career plans in Canada.
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