The Voice of Job Seekers

Mark Anthony Dyson ★ Career Writer ★ Speaker ★ Thinker ★ Award-winning Blog & Podcast! ★ "The Job Scam Report" on Substack! ★ I hack and reimagine the modern job search!

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How Immigrants Conduct a Successful Canadian Job Search

How Immigrants Conduct a Successful Canadian Job Search

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I get this question quite often: How do I, as an immigrant, find a Canadian Job?

John Ribero and Connel Valentine lead CanadianJobSearchAcademy.com and host the Zero2Hire podcast. They help newcomers to Canada start the perfect life with online on-demand videos that shows you how to convert job applications to job offers. They act as advocates, but, by no means are immigration experts. They want to help guide Canadian immigrants to find jobs they love.

You are more than welcome to join the discussion. Here are three ways you can:

– Call and leave a voicemail at 708-365-9822, or text your comments to the same number

– Go to TheVoiceofJobSeekers.com, press the “Send Voicemail” button on the right side of your screen and leave a message

– Send email feedback to mark@thevoiceofjobseekers.com

Here’s more about John Ribero and Connel Valentine:

He is a Career Coach, Certified Leadership Coach, and a Speaker. John is a Career and Job Search Coach.

Here’s more from our conversation: 

🇨🇦 You must apply for immigration first before the job

🇨🇦 Points are necessary to position yourself for a successful immigration

🇨🇦 Connel shares some of the professionals that scores higher to qualify for immigration

🇨🇦 Older workers will find applying for immigration and points more challenging

🇨🇦 Marry your experience and value to increase your chance for immigration

🇨🇦 Communicate what you contribute to your community and how it would add value in Canada

🇨🇦 Canada immigrants find more success for entry through specialization and not generalization

🇨🇦 I ask them both if there is gender bias although it helps if you’re married

🇨🇦 One spouse can leverage one or the other’s most prominent experience

I am  happy to announce my free and updated “421 Modern Job Search Tips for 2021!” This is a fourth edition and 150 pages of tips to help job seekers get started with their career change or the career start. There are more than 100+ tips and pieces of advice you’ll find useful and meaningful in a long or short job search.
I wrote most of the book but I had some help from career pros I respect and also learn from. From the 2020 updates, I included advice from Cynthia Pong and others, posts articles I’ve written. It’s not a perfect document and the corrections will occur throughout the year.
That’s not a promise, by the way.
I also include special advice on remote work, for Black professionals, and for women (Cynthia Pong) as well as other customized advice.
I am also happy to note my E-book is part of the FREE resources provided on Inc.com and Fast Company sites.

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Creating Demand and Staying Marketable While Remotely Working

Creating Demand and Staying Marketable While Remotely Working
Most professionals hope to move from opportunity to opportunity without many or long downtimes, but few put in the work. In future economies, it’s essential to make seamless employment moves for several reasons:
a. Employment bias is real today as employers prefer currently employed candidates to long-term unemployed.
b. It’s harder to gain traction in a job search without clarity as to where you want to go and do next.
c. People are quicker to refer those in their network than that outside of their network or unemployed.
Many stigmas go along with those who are unemployed for more than six months. Remotely working is more than just a temporary state of being. It is what you’ll need to navigate for some time and consider what you’ll career will look like from now on.
Many recruiters look for and prefer passive candidates. I had this discussion with Mark Jaffe, a widely-known recruiter.  In today’s job market, the executives who are stable and thriving and have their heads down are the ones that are being sought-after and sold on the idea of working for someone else.

  1. Understand how your work synergizes with your teammates.

You can serve your team by understanding how your work affects theirs. Initiating the discussion and adapting to different needs within the group makes you invaluable and intelligent, and empathetic if you knew their challenges.

  1. Document your remote journey.

Showing how you work can give you insight into how you can be better. Think about how it can help others on your team, your boss, and future hires. If you hone in on your work processes and achieve results, you can provide insight into how everyone else can add or benefit from your documentation. Your boss will also remain apprised of what you do and your job progress. The right communication can provide future opportunities for you.

  1. Show your work to the world.

Although you may not show propriety work product online, you can certainly document what you do. You can make PowerPoint slides to put on SlideShare and your LinkedIn profile. You can do this without promoting yourself as looking for a job and drawing interest in your expertise.

  1. Who loves your work?

The people who often become personal stakeholders who love your work will vouch for you. Once you learn who it is, strengthen your relationship with them, and help make their work valuable to you. They can also help make your good work’s value reach people above you and make your work known. Be the best publicist for yourself and your career.

  1. Create value-filled memorable conversations

If you aspired to a promotion, the conversations with company leaders are essential. When you’re helpful and responsive, it often creates opportunities later, but it also provides you opportunities to gain trust. The little things do count, such as an email to thank them for the conversation. If they advise you, thank them for it, and show you’ve implemented it.

  1. Anticipation will keep you waiting.

You desire to manifest acknowledgments and rewards for your work, but it will also make you feel as if you’re late and keeping you waiting. It’s hard to get noticed and create demand when everyone is remotely working. You’ll need to be creative and look for several ways to promote your work to coworkers and others of influence.

7. Create stories around your work.

Bob Dylan is considered one of the great songwriters of a generation, but rarely told stories around how he created songs. Conversely, Bruce Springsteen wrote and performed a play to tell stories behind his. In both cases, their songs themselves are stories and resonates with millions. In the same way, you want to increase your work’s reach, and it must tell a story that resonates with those who matter if you want your work to be remembered.

  1. Network with the best.

You may not have many friends, but it helps to have it co-signed by the best to create demand. This keeps doubters at bay, and your name is mentioned when you’re not physically in the room. Now that we’re remote, you can become a household name, but only one-at-a-time.
Changing careers will consume your life if you’re a realization when unemployment is sudden or imminent. Strategy, mindset reset, and planning take time and research. In 2021, you’ll succeed if you start planning for a career change today. There’s much uncertainty about what will happen for years from now.

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Brilliant Interviewing Strategies From a World Class Career Expert

Brilliant Interviewing Strategies From a World Class Career Expert

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The little things could turn your interviewing skills around, no matter your professional level, including the C-Suite. Lisa Rangel is back on the show to discuss how to take your interviewing skills to the next level even if you’re interviewing remotely.

You are more than welcome to join the discussion. Here are three ways you can:

– Call and leave a voicemail at 708-365-9822, or text your comments to the same number

– Go to TheVoiceofJobSeekers.com, press the “Send Voicemail” button on the right side of your screen and leave a message

– Send email feedback to mark@thevoiceofjobseekers.com

More about Lisa:

She is the founder and Managing Partner of Chameleon Resumes.  Her blog is a Forbes top 100 website for your Career. She is also a 10-time Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), former 13-year recruiter, and Job Search Expert.

 

Highlights from our conversation:

Lisa notices no set pattern to the hiring process as it’s “all over the place.”

Listen to the story she tells about a client going in for the 14th interview

Lisa has seen clients interview up to four times over 10 days.

We discussed the mind shift that needs to take place when interviewing remotely.

“…people go into interviews and they subliminally or consciously wait for somebody to lead the show and wait to see what they should be mimicking or what they should be mirroring back…”

We discussed the importance of making the interviewer feel comfortable in conversation mode, or as Lisa analogies it as, “…if someone came into your home…”

Offensive mindset (How to)

Explaining gaps questions gracefully Not everyone wants to go remote, and although all jobs are not remote, what does that say about the worker or candidate who is not willing?

Recruiters are hearing and accepting how employment is affected by the pandemic so it’s OK to “…latch on to that.”