Work Opportunities

[Canadian Expat 1]

Our local Canadian meet-up group was recently discussing the increase in job offers where being a Canadian is a plus. I just wanted to share with you - The Embassy of Canada and other diplomatic missions in the USA are currently hiring - 
international.gc.ca/world-monde/united_states-etats_unis/jobs-emplois/index.aspx?lang=eng

 

Also, many positions recently advertised for content/marketing/liaison etc. for the Canadian market [locally: Amazon, Wayfair] 

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Best of luck to the ones looking for work after the big move. 

 

[amicablebride 25]

On 2017-08-14 at 11:29 PM, Canadian Expat said:

Our local Canadian meet-up group was recently discussing the increase in job offers where being a Canadian is a plus. I just wanted to share with you - The Embassy of Canada and other diplomatic missions in the USA are currently hiring - 
international.gc.ca/world-monde/united_states-etats_unis/jobs-emplois/index.aspx?lang=eng

 

Also, many positions recently advertised for content/marketing/liaison etc. for the Canadian market [locally: Amazon, Wayfair] 

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Best of luck to the ones looking for work after the big move. 

 

Thank you. I'm in Connecticut so I'm going to see I feel any of this applies here. Jobs seem scarce and hard to get here. I'm currently making less than half what I made in Canada and it's quite devastating.

[Lemonslice 4,947]

I'm in Boston and opportunities abound here... i see posting for entry level admin I positions around $60k

Are you in a more rural part of CT? 

 

[amicablebride 25]

39 minutes ago, Lemonslice said:

I'm in Boston and opportunities abound here... i see posting for entry level admin I positions around $60k

Are you in a more rural part of CT? 

 

I'm more distant from the bigger cities like New Haven or Hartford. I'm working as a paraprofessional which requires a degree, and the pay is only around $15,000/yr. So, I am definitely doing all I can to change careers. I've been applying to entry level jobs but my experience is in education, special needs and child care and I've been competing with 50-100 other applicants (it sometimes shows how many applications were received). So I've kind of given up and am mainly working from home every hour that I'm not working at the school. My husband has a masters in public health and has applied several times (and taken tests) to work for various cities, but there's always someone with more experience. Maybe we should move to Boston 😩 lol

[NikLR 13,231]

Jobs here definitely do not pay what they do in Canada.  Thankfully my hubs works a job where we can get benefits etc, because I'm making no where close to the same wage!  

[Udella&Wiz 325]

I really think it's industry specific and area of the country specific. I live outside DC and there are literally thousands of positions unfilled in IT (hundreds at my company for example) which don't require citizenship (of course some do as well). The pay for me is better than anything I would ever get back home doing the same IT role. My starting salary at my first US position 9 yrs ago was instantly almost 15K higher (in US dollars) than my exact same position in Waterloo ON. I don't think I've lucked out, it's just the industry and the demand.