canaussie.com

*waves*  Hi guys!

Should have called this TasCan Jared!  Website looks great, 'specially the title font
Anyways, I'm an Aussie working in Dunedin, New Zealand, where I have developed a taste for travel, living in new countries, beautiful natural scenery and terrain, laughing at silly accents and skiing.  Apart from NZ, Canada is one of the only other countries in the world with all this on offer (about the accents, I get laughed at more...)
Hopefully heading in a Vancouver-ish direction in 18-24 months once I have completed my graduate program with my current company.  Looking forward to being a JAFA somewhere else!

G'Day

I'm Michael, been thinking about leaving good old Melbourne and heading over to Canada for the snow! I heard of this website though Jaz on RSlibertyclub!

Its something I have been waiting to do for years, but just never been in the right position to do it. But I am not wanting to leave more then ever!
At this stage I am fishing for information on the job climate over there, esp in the IT sales area.

Anyways I am loving the information on this site so far.

Catch you around!

Mickey

Hey Molloy,

Have you checked out the Quick Reference Guide (http://www.canaussie.com/quick-referenc … ence-guide) yet? That should take you through most of the steps that you need to follow in order to be able to work over here. Once you've got your work permit, you're good to go, and it's basically like moving to a different city in Aus and looking for work... not too hard, just a few differences. I've known a couple of sparkies to move over here and they've got work reasonably easily. There's lots of building going on over here at the moment, particularly for the Olympics - I'd just say (as I just did in another thread), make sure you know where you are at for the Olympics period itself, as accommodation is going to be scarce!


Mickey, I AM Jaz on RSlib Things seem to be picking up around here in the High Tech industry, and Vancouver is always good for that sort of thing anyway. Apart from the job places mentioned elsewhere on CanAussie (and I'm not sure if I've mentioned this elsewhere already), but checkout T-Net (http://www.bctechnology.com/scripts/main.cfm) for careers - their RSS feed is good, and it's just jobs in the High Tech (their term over here) arena.

Snow is almost here! Just had a weekend in the Okanagan Valley where it got down to -8 or so over night, and +6 or so during the day!

Hi Everyone,

We're a couple of late-20s guys living in Perth planning a year or so of Canadian adventure. I work in IT, my partner is a baker. Our total experience of Canada is a few drunken days in Toronto when we got married in March (on St Paddy's Day, no less). We hope to land in mid-June. We only know one person, I have no idea if anyone will rent the house, no idea if our cat will like living with the mother in law, no idea if we can afford it, no idea if we'll find a place that isn't a matchbox, but… it'll work somehow. It'll be dumb and fun and a waste of time and money, but if we don't do it now with the WHP, we'll miss out.

Just saying 'hi' for now, always good to get to know at least a few people in the same hemisphere.

Rgds,



- Ian & Aidan.

Hey All, just joined up - lots of good info on the site!

Thanks!

Bob

Hey Lyonsy,

Definitely bring the shorts It can get hot during summer, that's for sure!

J

Hello everyone, my name is Jake, I'm 20, a uni student studying commerce, I live in NSW (a little while out from Wollongong) and I've been wanting to go to Canada for the past 4 or so years. I just got my Working Holiday Visa approved purchased my one way ticket, I will be leaving on August 1st to Vancouver which means I still have a bit to go yet. I'm very excited, but admittedly a little freaked out but that is all part of the fun! I was originally meant to be coming out with friends but for various reasons, one couldn't afford to come and another gave up on the idea (at least for the time being). I backpacked around Europe for 3 months last year on my own, but met lots of awesome people, so I'm hoping I can do the same in Canada

Thanks haha I see you did similar with your blog. I'm not sure what I'll be getting up to, it's not like me to not make plans for something like this, but I'll have a fair bit saved up and can afford to spend a fair bit of time looking for work if need be. Also a Canadian friend I met in Europe has offered the couch at their place which would save me a bit of dough to start up with, it's like a block or two from GM Place which will give me a chance to see some ice hockey matches hopefully! A snow job would be great, just started getting into snowboarding in the past year, so a job at the snow would help me get out there a bit more I'd imagine, but jobs won't be available at the time I get there, so I'll have to wait and see. I'm probably going over with IEP, don't know if you've heard of them but they are a volunteer organisation that help you organise your SIN number, bank account, help you get a job etc etc. I've had a few friends use them and decent jobs pretty quickly.

The following year I should have my degree sorted and a Management or HR position (I'll be doing distance education whilst in Canada so that I don't overly delay my degree) would be great if I could get a related position in Canada eventually.

Hey Brooke, the main reason I was going with IEP was because of the employment side. I've had a number of friends go with them and were set up with decent jobs almost straight away and I figured it might be the best, the faster I get employed the better, my biggest fear about coming is that I won't be able to get a job! I realise it's quite simple to set up the bank account and SIN if you go about it the right way, just for that peace of mind I think I still want to go with them for job help. Appreciate the advice though, thank you.

By the way, I do wish there was a better job site then Craigslist and Monster, can't believe they don't have something like Seek. Lots of the ads on Craigslist don't include much information at all on what they require. Also doesn't appear to be many jobs available on these websites - I've heard that lots of employers in Canada don't like to list and them and it's more a word of mouth recruitment process.

Wow, seems like you've had some bad luck, don't worry though third time is lucky (or at least thats how the saying goes). Good luck with the job hunt come October

hi all,

i'm darren and im 24, im at the start of getting ready to make the move to canada to live and work.  i'm a qualified carpenter and have been for about 6 years in total,  i also have my cert 1 snowboard instructor ticket which i got in keystone colorado USA and loved it.  my ideal time in canada would be to work as a chippy in the warmer months and as an instructor in the winter months,  i'm looking to make the move in about 12 months at this stage and was wondering if it would be best to have a job lined up prior to making the move over or would it be easy enough for a carpenter to get a job?  i'm not to sure on which area i want to start in but the overall goal is to see as much of canada as i can (not that much different to everyone else really)  so reading about the road trips has got me up and about and wanting to come over now just for them...  any help will be great and im sure i will have more questions later. the website is very helpful and easy to use. thanks again and look forward to the whole experience.

Darren

Names Josh. I used canaussie to help fill in the blanks before I got here. Jared - Great webstie.

We(gf and I) have been here about a month now, living downtown and furiously looking for work like most aussies in Vancouver in seems. I tell you one thing, rent is not cheap but it seems minimum wage is less than Australia! I don't know how some of these people survive around here with out high paying jobs!

I'm from Perth and plan to be in BC until at least the end of the year and hopefully well in to the next...Been trying to suss out Vancouver fishing but not much luck. If this weather clears up soon I will post up a fishing report haha

Cheers
Josh