About Schengen: I'm thinking more and more that Canada signing onto that might be a fair tradeoff for a number of other benefits of EU membership.
About job search expectations: Applying to four or five jobs a week? Now I'm envious. Mind you, Canadian expectations are a minimum of two unique contacts per day. But the job search diary-keeping advice given by the feds here currently tends to encourage a positive and flexible definition of "job search-related contacts and activities". I tend to consider this a good thing for both morale and diligence-of-search maintenance purposes of the people looking for work. Also, for skills-building and maintenance, come to think of it.
I've been asked to hand in two-week extracts from my job-search diaries on occasion over the years, but that's been okay despite my anxieties in the moment.
Of course, I expect this to get messed up severely if the Conservatives get back into federal government in Canada.
Here, where I live, it was HARD finding reasonable job contacts! I ended up applying for stuff that I knew I wouldn’t accept if offered, things that would require relocation, etc. There simply aren’t reasonable jobs for IT in this direct area, at least not decent ones that have regular openings. Basically there’s not an expanding local job market. I went beyond my skill set in applying to jobs that I did not qualify for, and that I was massively overqualified for, and the same thing happened: almost zero response rate.
It was very depressing, but the payment was useful. Heck, that payment was more than double what I’m earning now! Theoretically I’m starting full-time January 2, which I don’t expect will increase my wages, but will double my hours.
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Date: 2019-09-08 10:40 pm (UTC)About job search expectations: Applying to four or five jobs a week? Now I'm envious. Mind you, Canadian expectations are a minimum of two unique contacts per day. But the job search diary-keeping advice given by the feds here currently tends to encourage a positive and flexible definition of "job search-related contacts and activities". I tend to consider this a good thing for both morale and diligence-of-search maintenance purposes of the people looking for work. Also, for skills-building and maintenance, come to think of it.
I've been asked to hand in two-week extracts from my job-search diaries on occasion over the years, but that's been okay despite my anxieties in the moment.
Of course, I expect this to get messed up severely if the Conservatives get back into federal government in Canada.
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Date: 2019-09-08 11:35 pm (UTC)Here, where I live, it was HARD finding reasonable job contacts! I ended up applying for stuff that I knew I wouldn’t accept if offered, things that would require relocation, etc. There simply aren’t reasonable jobs for IT in this direct area, at least not decent ones that have regular openings. Basically there’s not an expanding local job market. I went beyond my skill set in applying to jobs that I did not qualify for, and that I was massively overqualified for, and the same thing happened: almost zero response rate.
It was very depressing, but the payment was useful. Heck, that payment was more than double what I’m earning now! Theoretically I’m starting full-time January 2, which I don’t expect will increase my wages, but will double my hours.