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Moving Between Countries?
An anonymous reader writes "In six months' time, I am packing up and moving from Australia (Melbourne) to Canada (Vancouver). I'm a qualified network engineer. What I want to know is, what sort of quirks and tricks I am going to have to get used to in the Canadian job market? I'm used to Australian recruiters, and all the hoops you have to jump through, but Canada may have different hoops. I've tried contacting recruiters directly for information but they don't really give out much, as I am not actually in the country yet and therefore not worth their time. Is anyone willing to share their experiences on making the big move from country to country?"
You have an engineering degree? Or do you mean you know which boxes to check in Windows Server?
The real problem you are going to have with the immigration to Canada is overcoming the language hurdle. I lived near Canada for a few years and you could always tell a Canadian by his foreign tongue and tendency to try to use Canadian money as if it were real money.
I recommend that you go to a book store or library and pick up a Canadian/English dictionary and a few phrase books. Also, game stores have supplies of Canadian money in neat bags. It's even used in a popular board game from the Depression Era.
What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people.
Yeah, I've noticed the flag prevalence here, much more than back in NZ. We all like our country, more or less, but publicly displaying nationalistic tendencies (showing a flag on your shop/car/property) more or less marks you as a little retarded...
America's a country, not a continent.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"