DH(electrician)wants to move to Canada-UPDATE!

mrsblacky · by **mrsblacky** » Wed Mar 07, 2022 8:01 am

Thanks (again!)!
Will get on case re Garda clearance!

I don't mind about hols.... I find i only use holidays for weddings (4 on fridays this year if we're around!), getting my hair done and just plain laziness! I struggled last year to get hubby to go away for 4 nights! This is first time hes been in paid employment in a long long time (he was self employed for 10 years and never took a day off for real holidays) so the novelty of taking holiday days hasnt sunk in yet! It's a good trait to have I suppose, being a worker, but I am looking forward to him not having sheds out back to go and potter in every night and weekend!!

Also, Having Saturdays free from baking and the market would be like a holiday!

The excitement is starting to bubble up!!

shootingstar · by **shootingstar** » Wed Mar 07, 2022 11:58 am

Hi girls,
H2b got offered a job on Friday for Canada! We went up on sat to the expo to speak to the company but couldn't get in!! So we called the company and met them on Monday, signed the contracts and were told they would b on touch!! We've since got the Garda clearance forms and are bookin medical for h2b and drug/alcohol tests this week!! Full steam ahead!! As you can see from my ticker I'm currently 9 weeks pregnant and have a 3 year old daughter, so we plan that h2 b heads out on his own and me and dd will follow out when I reach 32 weeks, I can take my maternity leave early plus my 22 days holidays to cover this!! I plan to take at least a 2 year career break from my job so at least we have that wee bit of security if and when we return home!! It's a massive step, not one that I ware ally would prefer to do but with h2b not working the past 3 years, the money the company are offering, plus the experience, it's an opportunity we cannot pass..
Good luck to all who intend to go, we are looking at the saskatoon area too!!

plainsconesonly · by **plainsconesonly** » Wed Mar 07, 2022 12:12 pm

Hey girls

I nee to join this thread too! As I type DH is at the expo today that is on in Cork! Ive heard nothing from him so far!

But by reading your posts its seems positive! Yummymummy2b my DH is an electrician too! Really wants to move and work! Is the money worth your while? We have a mortgage here so would have to rent out the house etc and would prob have to send home money to cover our mortgage!

I want to go but I dont!! Its frightening!!

Do ye think ye will def go for it?

mrsblacky · by **mrsblacky** » Wed Mar 07, 2022 12:38 pm

plainsconesonly wrote:I want to go but I dont!! Its frightening!!

My thoughts exactly!

Shootingstar... that is amazing that things are going so quickly for your husband! Is he an electrician also? Don't suppose you have the contact details of the company he got the offer with?

shootingstar · by **shootingstar** » Wed Mar 07, 2022 12:51 pm

H2b is a carpenter, he will b going into the form work end of it, said its not something he has a whole pile of experience in but he can turn his hand at anything!! The company who interviewed him is monad industrial contractors, and the company is pcl I think, he will b workin in the mines in a town called vascoy.

DeniseGal · by **DeniseGal** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 10:30 am

Hi Ladies,
Myself & DH went to the expo in the RDS on Saturday, a journey which should only take MAX 2hrs, took us 3hrs & another 1/2hr to get parked. We joined the queue but never got into the expo - was so disappointing to say the least! We are looking at Canada as DH has been unemployed this past 2 years.

Numerous O:|

with the social... we haven't had a single cent from them since last Sept (on his side). I've since been put on a 3-day week! We're in the unfortunate situation where we have two mortgages (we built our own home and tried to sell DH house... all to no avail!) to pay and would be sending home a substantial amount of money regardless of where we go. But it has just gotten to the stage where we're at our wits end. There are NO jobs out there for DH, he has applied for everything going. He's an electrician by trade, but has been applying for ANY factory work, curtain/blind fitting, mushroom picking... you name it!! O:|

And for people to tell him to "think outside the electrical box", well that just makes me so so >:o(

Anyhow, ladies, this wasn't supposed to be a venting session... sorry! :duh:

I am just wondering if you guys have any advice on where we should go from here? Is the USIT route the best way to look into Canada, or should we look about getting a job offer first? I'm totally clueless.
YummyMummy2b i PM you, so if you could offer any advice - i'd really appreciate it.
Thanks a mill ladies O:o)

pollydolly · by **pollydolly** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 11:36 am

Denisegal, we are the same as you didn't get in to the expo. Looked up a few of the exhibitors up online and only email address we could find was [email protected] which is the british columbia construction association. Says on their website they want Irish tradesmen to send their CVs to that email address. Think they are some kind of union that will forward your cv to their relevant members. Anyway we did this sunday night and they replied last night to say they received it so we shall see if anything comes of it.

other than that we are at abit of a loss as to how to get the ball rolling on a move. Don't want to leave without a job offer.

shootingstar · by **shootingstar** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 11:56 am

Hi,
Sorry to hear your situation, it really is tuff out there for people?? I think we r making the right decision by movin even though it's gonna b really really hard to leave and have a new baby over there??
Anyways when we went up to Dublin on Monday to speak to the company who have offered h2b the job we sat in on talk about visas. They told us to go this route if the employer wasnt sortin our visas, http://www.saskimmigrationcanada.ca/sinp
The employer is doing ours for us so we don't have to use it, but have a look and a read through. I also found this website when I was looking at houses etc but maybe there are job offers on it?? http://saskatoon.kijiji.ca/f-real-estat ... 43QQPageZ2

Hope it helps!!

mrsblacky · by **mrsblacky** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 5:39 pm

Well!

I've just sent off the letter for Garda clearance! Little steps!!

I have a list of email addresses to send DHs CV to and numbers to call for advice! Going to start calling tonight when he gets home! We're going to tidy up his CV tonight also before we send it out... I did his CV up and when I asked him what his experience was he said he's been welding so as you can imagine his experience looks crap on paper!!! Even with 20 years experience behind him he never actually got any certs so today off he went and he's now qualified!!!

We hope to have made contact with as many companies as possible by the weekend and then it'll be a matter of waiting for a while to see if he gets any calls!

One question for those if you that are over there already.... How do I go about getting a job if the visa is for the skilled worker only?! I can't see anywhere that confirms that I can work if he gets a visa! Maybe I'm looking in wrong places!

Redundancies were announced in work today so hopefully I get it to help us on our way!

mrsblacky · by **mrsblacky** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 5:46 pm

Pollydolly, we're in same position... Don't want to do anything until there is a job offer on the table so we're sending out his CV to as many companies as possible in the hope that gets him an offer! I'm also following the advice shootingstar gave about contacting www.saskimmigrationcanada.ca at the same time as CV sending!

I really think this little thread is very helpful.... Thank you so much to all contributors!

mrsblacky :thnk

LittleLily · by **LittleLily** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 5:50 pm

Theres a lot of weight put on covering letters in Canada. Often peoples C.V will only be one page long but the covering letter will contain a lot of information about them that. in Ireland, would appear on the C.V.

Also, it mightn't be a bad idea to call it a resume rather that a C.V.

Also, expect to send A L O T of emails and not get a reply to any of them and then get a random reply in about 6 months time. Having said that, I've no experience of trade recruiting this is just my general job hunting experience.

LittleLily · by **LittleLily** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 5:52 pm

Oh, also meant to say, if you're sending C.V.s as attachments (either word or PDF) make sure they're formatted for printing on letter size paper. They don't use A4 here.

mrsblacky · by **mrsblacky** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 5:56 pm

Thanks littlelily! All these little tips are very helpful!

YummyMummy2b · by **YummyMummy2b** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 10:33 pm

Hi Girls

So sorry only got to sit down on WOL tonight as didn't have a minute all week! I can't belive the amount of hits this thread got omg!! I'm getting quite excited now-I have decided I am feeling the fear & doing it anyway! I would also really like to know about the interview process. I am thinking would the companies just find it more cost effecitve to rely on immigrants in the country already & not have the expense of recruiting employees from here & have to sort all the admin etc?? Please say I'm wrong as really hoping dh has a job offer in place first..

Mrs Blacky it sounds like you have a terrible commute. Any word on the redundancies? Thats a great sideline you have with the baking-it could come in very handy in Canada too I'm sure there are lots of farmers markets etc. DHs friend handed in a cv on Sun morning & got talking to one of the recruiters for about 20 minutes, he got a call monday evening for a tuesday interview in the Westin in the city centre. He will be based in Saskatoon. We haven't a clue where to start but there is no flies on you getting your garda clearance in ordert-thats on our to do list for the weekend. LOVE the idea of the Canadian WOL meet up-sure we will all be in the same boat. This little puddle up is a definite-I'm getting excited now by the sounds of it there will be a great little Irish community in Saskatoon O-O

Denise gal I just pm'd you. TBH it sounds like the very fortunate few got anything out of the expo. Hubby was very lucky that his cv was even accepted all the recruiters were saying apply online website on the flyer. Re Visa we are praying hubby gets an offer first & if not we go the u35 route but unsure if we will qualify as apparently only 6,000 per annum?

Little Lily- Starzz mentioned the holidays already. I had visions of coming home to visit twice a year >:o(

At the moment I get 30 holiday days not inc bank/public hols...How will I survive??? Mrs Blacky :yelrotflmaosmilie:

at you using hols to get hair done x Little lily thanks for the tips re the resume as blacky said all these tips very handy to us Europeans! It will be interesting to see how long it takes for the replies to roll in I can imagine all these companies are inundated with cvs at the moment...

Shootingstar-congrats on the new beginnings, this is fantastic news! We are looking at Saskatoon too.Just wondering how the maternity care will work for you when you arrive over. Will you get covered through the Canadian system through your dh? Do you need to pre book your hospital place?

Pollydolly pm,d you there-did you do any more research?

Plain Scone-by the sounds of things the money is fab-about 3,000 after tax every fortnight. I felt exactly like you did-I want to do it but dont its so scary.. Even though our situation is not nearly as eharsh as others as in no kids, loans or mortage we have taken the stance that we could be here surviving & just getting by or be 7 hours away having a better chance of living the life of our dreams.That is the clincher for us-we want to live & enjoy life not just try to make ends meet.. I am 100% behind the move now but we really want dh to have a job offer first for a bit of security & reassurance... x

Sorry for the War & Peace style post :-8

mrsblacky · by **mrsblacky** » Fri Mar 09, 2022 10:36 am

Morning!

Yummymummy, I hope you're wrong too!! Surely all the immigrants over there are already in jobs so that is why companies are still looking for skilled workers here!

The commute never used to bother me but now that there are 2 babas at home I hate it and would do anything to stop... But can't afford to :o(

I'm in AIB and there's now talk that it could be 2013 before the redundancies are finalised depending on which dept we work in... Hubby might be going out before us and we'll follow over oncFe I finish up (that's if I get it!)!

I am really hoping that this move gives us a more comfortable life with more family time.... I think that could be what is putting doubts in my head... What if it doesn't? But then if I had to listen to all the what ifs in my head I wouldn't ever leave the house!!!!

Denisegal, would you even start going down the u35 visa route at the same time as looking for a job then there'd be something to fall back on if either one didn't work out?! That visa is out for us because dh is 42!

I think if I hadn't come across this thread we wouldn't be persuing as many avenues as we are... You girls have given us more contacts and tips than we would've gotten by just looking on the Internet so I think we're at a slight advantage! ( there should be a smug smiley option!)... Yeah sure companies are going to be inundated by CVs but we'll be sending out more than our rivals!!!

Would also be interested to know abou maternity care.... Will hopefully be having no. 3 within a year of arriving!

The idea of this move is scary but as yummymummy says, it's only 7 hours away.... Sure it took me 3 hours to get home from work the other day because of traffic so it's a no brainer really!

I just read back on what I typed and I can feel myself getting more positive as I type!!

Talk soon!

Mrsblacky

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