Why do you need Canadian job experience?

Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. Um, I'm talk— going to talk today about Canadian experience. There's a very serious thing I'm going to talk today to you about, uh, why you need Canadian experience to get into the Canadian job market, and number one, and what you should do to get Canadian experience. There's 2 things I'm going to discuss with you today. So yeah, I hope you're having a nice holiday season, and Merry Christmas to everybody, and Happy New Year in a— well in advance. In New Year, I will be in India, so I'm very excited to go and live there for four months. So you guys can contact me there personally if you want. You can just you know my email ID. Just contact call me and contact me personally, and we can have a face-to-face chat or a video call in India itself. Like I'll be in Kolkata, so you guys can meet me if you want to. So this is one good news. Okay, second good news is that the vaccination has been rolled out in most countries. So I'm going to be in the middle of getting vaccinated. Like Canada, already vaccination has started for the young people, for the old people, and I won't be getting it now. And when I go to India, India is going to probably start its vaccination. So I'll be spoiled for choice. I don't know where I'm going to take the vaccination, but okay, I'm coming to India and I'm excited about it. I don't— I'm going to wear mask and hazmat. Whatever you ask me to, I'll do that, but I want to be there. Okay, so okay, coming back to the topic that we were discussing. Number one is why do you need Canadian experience? Most people are like very, very upset with the fact that they are highly educated and experienced in different parts of the world. You you have experience in India, in in U.S., in Dubai. Wherever you come to Canada and then you are asked if you have Canadian experience. Look, you have so much international work experience, why do you need Canadian experience to get into a job of your own field? That is something which everybody is very annoyed with the fact, and even I was very annoyed for a very long time. So now I realize that there are certain, uh, certain things that you think that Canada offers which the entire world do not offer. So for instance, in India it is mostly, uh, the work job market in India, the job scenario in India, like in Canada and India, job scenario in India for instance is very highly, uh, it's like a pseudo-feudal system and it's highly discriminatory. There are a lot of Uh, discrimination on the basis of— you say Canada is discriminatory, I would say India is discriminatory because of the— because they want local people in, in their work ambiance. Like in different parts of India, uh, people hire their own, uh, people who they can talk to in their own language. It's just the comfort thing, comfort feeling, you know. And people coming from outside are not taken into the groups. Though there is no nothing like Indian experience, you have to have Indian experience, nothing like that. But in spite of that, there is a bit of a discrimination in workplace. So the same thing exists in Canada. So Canada, there is a discrimination, subtle discrimination, which is not legal. So you cannot discriminate on the basis of caste, creed, or color, or their whoever is applied. But you can set this Canadian experience thing, which kind of, uh, which kind of looks at you in the sense that have you had Canadian experience before. Why you need Canadian experience is a very positive thing actually, because Canada— in Canada there is no such hierarchy system or the feudal system that kind of exists in different parts of the world, which was set by the British. Mostly by the British. It was it was set ablaze by the British in different parts of the world. See, I don't I don't care talking about the truth. So I give you the truth in a very nice way. The British had had colonized different parts of the world, and they had set this kind of hierarchy system where you have to report to your boss, and you like it's in India. You have to you have to Wait for your boss to leave the office, then only you can go. There's so many things like you feel almost you cannot voice your opinion against the boss. Boss is always right. Similarly, you dole that kind of attitude towards your young, your juniors, and they you don't treat them like humans. You treat them like servants. In India, juniors are almost treated like servants. They are asked to get coffee. They are asked to get. interns are asked to get coffee. In fact, I had a huge problem with my boss in the Sun-Times when he asked my intern, the intern who was working for me, he asked him to get a coffee. It happened not once, twice. Then I kind of stood up. I said, why are you asking him to get a coffee? Why can't you get it for yourself? That's not your business, he told me. I said, it is my business. This is discrimination, and what you're doing to him is not right. He is in fact my intern, and whatever I I have right to say, whatever you won't tell to. No, no, boss got furious, and we had a huge showdown. But I always used to do that in office. My friends in Hindustan Times would know that, know me for that. I was as always used to be at loggerheads with anybody who who I thought. Was doing something not right. So anyway, even in Telegraph, I had the reputation of being the tigress with claws, you know, so nobody could really do anything. So anyway, the thing is that Canadian Experience is a platform where everybody is treated equally, whether you are the manager or supervisor, The way they they speak to you, it's so polite, so nice. Everybody is treated as equal. Everybody's opinion is taken into consideration. It is a it is a joy to work here. Even when you if you're a labor job, it is a joy to work here in this country. Once you get in and once you start working, even in McDonald's, even if you're working as a in a gas station. The respect you earn, everybody calls you sir and madam when you're behind the counter standing for 8 hours, you know, at a sales shop. Even if you're highly qualified and you're trying to get into your own field of operation, if you're working at a gas station, your dignity of labor is so high that everybody is— even at a gas station, you're called a sir or madam. A Uber driver is called a sir over here. So, um, it's, it's, it's really a comfortable place to work with. So that is what they ask for, whether you have the Canadian experience, because there— it's a multicultural country and people come from all walks of life. There is a huge cultural, um, uh, this area, this area, like huge cultural heterogeneous cultures, uh, situation. So you You need to accept all culture, whether you like it or not. Whether you heart of heart you might not like that particular culture, but the particular religion, religious of that religion, people of that religion. But openly you cannot show any kind of disregard for them, or any kind of disregard for their food habits, or any kind of disregard for their habits. And so you have to be, you have to learn the art of tolerance. This is something very, um, which I learned being up after becoming somebody who's giving out jobs instead of asking for jobs. So now I'm in a position I'm giving out jobs. So here I know, uh, how to, how to handle my employees because you need— you should not at all— you cannot be discriminatory on the basis of anything, even language comfortability, because most people are want to have— most people want to have that kind of a language comfort where they can speak their own mother tongue, you know, and they form groups. And supposing I can speak in Bengali, so I'll hire only Bengali workers. No, you have to hire all kinds of workers, and that's how a company is formed. You have to have the minority section, you have to have everybody, you know. It's like it's a colored multicultural organization. So every organization in this country Has that kind of an ambience. So why they ask you for the Canadian experience is that have you faced that kind of ambience? Have you worked in that kind of ambience? So it could be even if you're driving Uber, you are you are picking customers, picking customers of different kind of customers. So how you're handling them, you know, you cannot be rude with somebody. You cannot be impolite. Here how they sack you is also very interesting. It's so politely done. You know, like they call you to the office and when do come come over for a cup of coffee? And it's not like why didn't you come over for a cup of coffee? You know the way they said in three idiots. No, it's very very friendly and they call you and they say you know we have this this this this complaints against you. They show you the complaint and company policies say that we cannot work together anymore. So I really wish you all the best. I can give you all kinds of recommendations, good recommendations for you. And but you can leave for today and hope to, you know, hope you find a way to job next. It's so well done. And if the person is like stunned or I've lost my job, I've been fired and he's stunned, then they ask you, you know, shall I call you a cab? Shall I call you an Uber? Do you want somebody to collect your things for you? And, uh, we do not, uh, we, we don't— won't be able to work together from tomorrow. It's so politely done that you want to be sacked again and again in this company. They don't scream and shout and throw you out like they do in India. They don't do that, you know. They're polite and they ask you very politely. So that really calms your nerves from everything, you know. Even if you are jobless and then you can ask for— you can go for Employment insurance, the company is going to give you the employment insurance. There is no hard feelings after that. After your job is gone, you can go back to the company to get your employment insurance. You can talk to the talk to your boss about giving you a letter of reference letter. There is no hard feelings generally. I'm talking about in general. There are definitely exceptions to the whole thing. Also, you cannot have your Um, let me close the window. I'm shivering. It is so cold today. It is very cold. Okay, so those are my Christmas lights. Okay, so, um, that is the reason why Canadian experience is so much required. Okay, and number 2 is how you can get Canadian experience. That is very important for you to know. Once you land here, even if you drive, start driving Uber, if you have international license, you can start, buy your own car and start driving Uber. Get your Uber app while you are applying for G2. I think you can drive Uber with an international license. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If you do not have, cannot drive with international license, you can get your own license Getting a license is a little tough, but once you pay for the G1, the G2, and G, maybe in 8 months' time you might get your own license. Meanwhile, you can start working in a store. Like I said, there's so much respect in a store that you will not want to leave the store. I mean, you're working fine, good hours, you're getting your— and you get your salary right on time. Bang on the day. Wherever you work, even I have to give my employees salary first, and then only I can think about my other expenses. So salary has to be given right away. Okay, so you get your salary in your bank straight away. There is not a day's, you know, like delay. And you get your medical benefits. Most companies give you medical benefits, and you get your, uh, like, um, all kinds of leaves and everything is— you get so much benefits working in a, even in a small store, store that, um, yeah, you have to— it has to be— if you're working in a store with, uh, with cash job, that is slightly dicey. So that kind of— they kind of try to exploit you. But if you go for a gas station or you go for No Frills, you go for Walmart, you go for Value Village, you go for all these big retail joints and start working as a salesperson, you will suddenly realize that you are so happy. And who cares what they think back home? Once you are happy, that's all it matters. You're providing for the family. You're buying a car. You're buying your house. You are saving up for your house. Both if both of you are working, you can buy a house in one yard street. So buying a house over here is like like getting a daughter married. Yeah. So if you haven't bought a house, everybody will come and tell you haven't bought a house yet. It's like having an unwed daughter at home. Aren't you going to marry her and get her married? It's like that. So buying a house is something like that. If it's not a priority for you, it doesn't matter. You can live in a rented house if you are comfortable, if you're happy. That is all that matters, because Canada provides the one platform for everybody, that is comfort and happiness and security. That's the platform you are provided. So like I said, do not come here for extensive ambitions. To be able to make it in life, really make it in life. It's not a place to make it in life, or I think that's why it's a normal job scenario where it's a very comfortable job scenario and a comfortable home life. So you are comfortable except for the wind, snow. It's like -3 or -4 outside. So except for that, uh, but at home I'm wearing just this, you know, so there's a heating on and I'm comfortable at home. There's no problem inside the home. So inside everything, like everything is heated. That's the mandatory rule. So what happens is that if you want to earn Canadian experience, come over. Also, you can start volunteering. That's a very important thing in your field. Whatever you want to, you can start being an intern or a voluntary, voluntary work. Another, there's another third way of getting Canadian experience, that is getting into a— even into a university or a field of study. If you start studying here, you get government loans and grants which have reduced considerably. There's a lot of reduction this year because of the COVID situation, so they're not giving— doling out thousands of dollars in loan and grants. So they're trying to restrict the But even then you get a lot of, uh, you get to at least your loans, uh, the study, uh, is covered. You don't get so much grants, but you get your, uh, tuition fees covered. And if you do about even a year course over here, that is counted as a Canadian experience. So you can apply for a job saying that you've done that course here. So that way you will definitely get an interview call in your own field. Okay, should get an interview call unless the company is like bombarded with applications or they hire internally or something like that. You can try, you can keep trying, starting to do it. If your education is— and your education needs to be evaluated by the Canadian standards, you know that already. So you bring your transcripts here and get them evaluated. So meanwhile, getting your Canadian experience is very important. Earlier, I used to think Canadian experience is a way of saying that we are Canadian. Canada is you know better, higher standard of place to work. No, it is not that. It's not. It's not. One second. Let me just say it's not. What is the word I've just looked up? Okay, okay, so I can't find that word anyway. So you need, uh, Canadian experience also to find out whether you can talk in English, your language proficiency skill, because English is the first language here and you need to communicate with English with everybody. So if you don't know English, that would be really not counted as an experience. Like, you need to really speak English properly. And, um, uh, what else? And that's it. Yeah, so I was just looking up something about Canadian experience. Okay, so that, uh, should, um, you should be able to, uh, have— you should not feel that Canadian experience is judging you by— Canadian employers are judging you by where you're coming from or what you're doing. By asking you for Canadian experience. It's just that they want to make sure that you know the Canada job market very well, you know the work ambience. The work ambience has to— work ambience is very, um, very delicate, you know, because there's so many people working here, so many kinds of people working here, so many religious backgrounds, so many countries. So work experience is very important. And like Knowing that is very important. Religious and the tolerance, patience, politeness, and smiling in spite of that really makes you a better person being in the Canadian job market. Thanks for watching, and I'll come up with the Christmas video very soon. Look out for the— watch out for the Christmas video where you'll find in Canada a place where of natural Christmas trees there isn't much celebration. Outside, like the way it happens in India. So we'll watch, we'll see that.