Landing a Job in Canada

as an Immigrant
Adebayo Ajayi
 My Canadian Job Market
Experience
I got my Permanent Residence
I started applying for Jobs in December
application approved in December
2021.
2021.

I applied for about 20 jobs per day for

I did about 10-15 interviews
about 2 weeks

I got a middle level management Job in

January 2022 while still in Nigeria. I I landed in Canada in February 2022.
requested to resume in March 2022

I got another offer as a Senior Manager I resumed in the new company in May
in another company in April 2022. 2022

I shared my strategies with about 4

persons and 3 of them got Jobs before Let me teach you what I taught them ☺
landing.
 Canadian labour market added a meaty
108k positions in October.

All job loses recorded during the pandemic

Introduction have been more than recouped.

Unemployment rate in Canada is at 5.2%

Ontario and Quebec are the top 2 provinces

with the most recruitment in the last
quarter.

The Canadian labour market clearly still has

some steam left to it- Your Job is waiting for
you (Hurry Up!!)
 You must go some
There is no Job in level lower than what
Canada you were doing in
your home country.
Myths about
Canada Job
Market Your Old Resume is
Enough
I must use an agency
to get a job in Canada

You have to start with

a menial job
Strategies for
landing a Job in
Canada
1. The journey begins in the
Mind

“Whether you think you can,

or you think you can't – you're
right”
~ Henry Ford quote,
2. Do you have the
right certification?
• Canada market is heavily
dependent on certificates over
degrees.
• Mastery over generalist
3. A new Career or a new
Industry? You have to Pick one
• If you work as a project
Manager in an IT company
back home, it is either you
work as a project manager in
a Consumer goods industry
or you work as a Business
Analyst in an IT firm
• You can always to start all
over again, this will take time
and a different concept
4. The platform and the tools

JOB PLATFORMS- INDEED.CA, TOOLS- A STANDARD RESUME A WELL TAILORED INTERVIEW

LINKEDIN, GOOGLE JOBS, APPROACH
COMPANY’S WEBSITE E.T.C
5. Select courses with Co-op option
(For students)

• Co-op courses allow

international
students to pursue
degrees that have
alternate terms of
work and study.
6. You have to be consistent
with your job applications.

• Have daily targets of job applications.

• Increase your probability of getting a

job by applying for several jobs.
 7. Leverage on your Networks in Canada

• Referrals always work

• Ask someone that knows someone

about a job that requires somebody
Summary of the Strategies that works

7. Leverage on
1. The journey
your
begins in the
Networks in
Mind
Canada

6. You have to
2. Do you have
be consistent
the right
with your job
certification?
applications.

3. A new
5. Select
Career or a
courses with
new Industry?
Co-op option
You have to
(For students)
Pick one
4. The
platform and
the tools
Thank you
Adebayo Ajayi, PMP ®
@successbayo
@successbayo
ADEBAYO AJAYI, PMP®, CSSBB™, PSM®