Working abroad....
I'm English and live in England. (Amazing.) I'm thinking about changing jobs and had thought about emigrating - for a couple of years - to Canada or, perhaps, the US. I'm a content manager/web producer on a multinational's retail site. I'm 28 and got my first 'net job in 1998.
What's the job market like for new media types in the US/Canada? Can anyone recommend any good recruitment agencies, perhaps companies that have experience in cross-continental recruitment?
I happen to have a chronic illness which means I'm on daily meds and have to get bloodtests done at a hospital each month. I assume that means, despite a reasonable CV, I'd be basically unemployable in North America. Is that a fair assumption?
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I can''t speak too much to this, except to say that the market hasn''t been great for new tech jobs for a while. I had a bunch of friends who moved out to San Francisco during the bubble - they were living large for about two years, then....most of them are doing fine, but it hasn''t been easy. I would recommend looking into firms that have large presences in both the UK and US & Canada, to make some contacts,
Oh, you definitely want to go to Canada then, from what I understand of their Health Care system. Although it may be tough to get residency for health care purposes, I don''t know...Maybe one of the resident Moose Wranglers can speak to that?
Good luck!
[edit] I should probably say that since I am in the education sector and have private insurance, I''m just talking out my ass -- please don''t base any live changing decisions on the rantings of a procrastinating idiot.
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Can''t see how that would affect you in Canada, we gots free health care.
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Why do you only want to come for a ""couple of years""? To make tall cash in America? Two years won''t be enough to earn much if you consider the moving costs, I think.
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Moose Wrangler, I am so offended, we don''t wrangle meese(plural moose) we pelt them with Timbits.
Once you are a canadian citizen, or landed immigrant, actually I believe it is once you are a resident for 6 months you get free health care. To be a resident you just need to get into the country legally, student visa, work visa that sort of thing.
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Even if I could find work I suspect immigration wouldn''t let me through; I''m not sure they want to import sick people.
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I say a couple of years, but it could be more. I just meant I fancied a change of experience, not a new life.
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I''m no immigration lawyer but I don''t think they could refuse you on the grounds of being ill, it''s not like you have plague or anything, right ? As long as it ain''t SARS I think you''re fine.
Given the choice it''s probably easier to get into Canada then the US, and lots of people settle here while waiting for their US visa to go through.
There''s work here but it isn''t in abundance but if you know your stuff odds are you''ll find something. to see Canadian jobs go to
www.workopolis.com or www.monster.ca and poke around, if you can speak french you get something in Ottawa pretty quick.
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Not totally sure what you''re looking for, but jeffgaulin.com and mediajobsearchcanada.com are good places to look for new media jobs.
The last link also has extensive lists of multimedia companies across Canada.
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Thanks for all the links, chaps.
Amusingly, the Gaulin site lists a vacancy at the Canuckian offshoot of a company my mother works for.
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I would suggest moving to Mexico and hanging there for a little while. Maybe build some capitol exporting illegal steriods and erectile dysfunction drugs for a couple of months.
When you get bored doing that, just walk on in to America!
I love the fact that industry workers have to crawl through rings of fire to get legal entry to the country.
This is personal to me because I have a girlfriend in England who would very much like to move to the US.
She worked for 3COM for 8 years and now works for a major switching company.
Can''t score a green card to get here.
But Juan and his entire family who live in a garage down the street from me, breeding pit bulls for dog fights? No problem.
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Well I am a swarthy individual, so might be mistaken for a Mehican.
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Right.
What are ""Timbits""?
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As far as I know (and I could be way off the mark) I believe the restrictions on foreign workers into the worksite are less than what is current in the US.
But hey, if you got a connection i.e. mom work it !
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You know how donuts have holes. Well now you know why. LOL Kidding of course.
They are just round balls made up of the dough they make donuts with. They come in all kinds of flavors just like donuts. They are oh so good!
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I''d say go for it. The US and Canada are both great places to live. If you end up in Canada I''d limit it to Toronto or Vancouver, both are very nice IMO. You do get free heath care in Canada, but if you have chronic problems you could be in trouble because the wait to be seen is pretty long.
If you do come the USA I''d recommend looking at some of the multi-national companies that have offices here in the States. That way you could apply over in the UK while making it known you want to work in North America. I work at PUMA (German Company) and we have lots of people from Germany and the UK working here on a temp basis. Immigration is a lot easier if you have a job waiting for you.
Either way good luck.
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You''d be just fine. I have something that requires a lot of medical care and employers cannot fire you or not hire you because you need care.
I don''t trust Canada care because there are way too many horror stories that come from it.
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Seconding what Ulairi said - it''s generally illegal to fire or refuse to hire someone based on medical conditions in the U.S., unless those medical conditions prevent that person from doing their job and the employer can show that they can''t accomodate the problem.
Unless you''re taking a contractor (versus employee) position here in the U.S., group health insurance would almost certainly be available from your employer for a relatively modest cost (often under $50/month for a single person, and around 2x - 3x that for a family) and will fully cover any pre-existing conditions. It''d be very difficult and expensive to get a private health insurance policy for someone with a pre-existing condition. It''s a patchy, awful system, but most people can wrangle health insurance here.
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A-ha! Thanks for the explanation, guys! I think here in US, they''re called ""Munchkins"", offered by Dunkin Donuts, the purveryors of fine hot beverages and pastry delicacies.
Pelting mooses (meese?) with them would indeed be abhorrently inhumane. Which makes me think that there definitely must be an equivalent to this medieval pastime in our Southern states, logically. Such as ""Peltin'' ''possums wit Munchkins"", perhaps.
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Which is why we keep pushing all those photos and stories about the seal clubbings to the forefront of the media. Could you imagine the outcry from PETA and other such organizations if they were to find out about our annual meese culling in Stanley Park in Vancouver. People have been known to purchase in excess of 40 timbits per person for the meese peltings.
And our disguise as America''s younger, simpler brother is so effective. mwaaaaa haaaa ha
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