 hi guys welcome back to my youtube channel so those of you who are here for the first time i'm a lawyer in Ontario canada and i vlog about general advice about legal market and about general market like today i'm going to give you practical tips of finding job in canada which i think are very useful very practical and if you incorporate them then i'm sure they're going to help you secondly guys i have opened up an instagram page you can see the link here and you can also know that i'm going to discuss about immigration and refugee human rights law of canada in that blog i think that's a very useful topic and people are being floated and scam but that is very sad state of affairs and i think that it's it's my domain right i am an immigrant myself and i like to discuss immigration law in fact i deal with immigration clients all the time so i just want to make sure that the information that is going out there is authentic at least you know people take their decisions with due diligence so this is the link on instagram which you can see and any blogs which i'm going to make i have categorized my playlist so if you go into my videos and you see the playlist i have made different series so whatever series is you of your interest you go and watch that because i will vlog about multiple things right you might not want to see all of that you might want to see all of that then but you just need to go in that particular it's organized like my files so you can go and check that out the first tip is that when you are looking out for a job what ideally you should do is and the approach should be that you should do a job market strategy study so this is the this is a very good strategy to start approaching the job market some people just get out of the degree you know jump into the job market without knowing that what thing they are bringing on the table even if they are freshers you have to start from somewhere i understand but if you do a strategy market study which is strategic i am sure it's going to help you so for the lawyers i say for example now i should know that what is happening in covid and what kind of area of law is going to be hit and what kind of area of law is going to make you know have a boom so from according to that research for the lawyers who are listening to me the trial lawyers are seriously hit in canada and the lawyers like the in-house councils and contracts and insolvency laws are on still on a safer side but what i do meant to say is that keep doing your strategy study know about the market that your target your field is you know whatever you think is sufficient research research and only then come to a good conclusion so that you know what you're looking at so guys one more tip i think which is very useful for people who are migrants or who are looking for job in canada right now is that even though you have worked in a multi-million in company but what you need to understand that even if you were at that level you can start from a smaller firm do not assume that people are going to have the same pay brackets maybe some smaller firms pay more than the bigger firms the exposure of a smaller firm you won't even imagine it and your the work you do and what kind of impact you create it is so related like you can really relate to in a small firm in a big firm or in a small company why do i say that because you're each and every effort would be counted whereas in a big firm your work is just like one mug in the whole river so it is it might just not be counted so why not you know target the smaller firms and not always go for the big firms it is okay to start small and then maybe head your way up sometimes even people what they do is they learn so much from the small firms that it becomes like their baby product and they you know put all their likes in that small firm and make it a bigger firm so i think you should always keep your mind open to all things especially when you are immigrants in canada you should be your horizon should be wide open you should be open to opportunities and not restrict yourself when it comes to work so there's my another tip is that when you're targeting the job market to make sure you're targeted to the best websites so there is glass door there is linkedin linkedin apparently a very good website to find jobs in canada then also is indeed indies is also a very good platform to find a job in canada so these are the illegal websites i can share in the description box but those who are who you are listening were not lawyers and in general looking out for jobs in canada then you should probably just look around in your field and research that what kind of domain is very good which website is very good for you to research so what happens is that if you do not if you do not be selective with your website approach and your approach is not right then sometimes maybe you miss a very good opportunity which was only listed employers only list certain jobs in these kind of high-end websites so not every job is listed everywhere you might not want to miss that opportunity and keep yourself and your resume updated with these kind of websites i think this is a very important tip that you should have a futuristic approach and how will you do that now do not when you are an immigrant in canada or when you are looking for a job in canada do not worry about what people will say how people will react no i always always say a big no to this don't hesitate to go and search about a specific individual like in my area of practice i i really followed cyber security law humanitarian law and immigration and refugee law these were my areas of key key integration right so i used to go and find people in the big firms and you know amid this covid thing also i used to just send them a link the message or a mail or anything i just used to be a friend and approach without having any specific kind of intention in mind just with the intention of networking and knowing people and having mentors here people who shape you you do not always need to have some kind of you know uh taking intention always have the giving intention and the universe is so that it will give you back will honestly tell me when you are looking for a job and when you are applied for a job and when you call for an interview or even if you're not called for an interview how many if you have actually gone into the company's details firms details and try to see what the true what the true picture of the firm is how their culture is what whatever it is these are the points which will help you have even to have a conversation with one of the players in in that team right so you should always be very much prepared now supposedly there was a linkedin study which i was going through and in that study many people were asked that are you prepared to meet your dream dream employer tomorrow 90 people plus people were blank they were like no we need to prepare about what we're going to say there so make sure you're prepared preparation is the key for everything even for a job interview even for a informational interview what like rough chit chat or anything you should have a con you could you should have that kind of capability to hold a conversation and how will you have that when when you impress somebody and how will you impress somebody when you tell them that yes you are really interested and you know about their company and firm guys a lot of time i also suggest everybody to cold call in canada what happens what will happen what worse will happen they will just say no you are not required we do not have a position and sorry but that's it open google to call your kind of firms and just ask them if you can come on basic wages if you can start with basic maybe you just want to learn the work you're a new immigrant try and put an emotional appeal across cold calling you never know i swear to god you never know when they might hire you and when they might call you for a volunteer position maybe and you do not want to miss that in a company where you've been calling and you've had a dream to work right because nobody in canada will keep you for free for a very long time so they all know that they need to pay and they have this basic employment obligation on their head always so try and cold call people right and especially now when everything is going virtual and database so why don't why wouldn't you take that chance when you can just send an email or maybe connect on linkedin but never approach the person like never approach an employer or an HR or anybody in that particular firm you know who's at a position where they can influence the decision never just go and say that okay i'm looking for this my qualification is this can you ask me why would if i am an employer why would i try to help anybody like that i wouldn't why would i i would rather know the person know the credibility of that person see the why why that person is good and only then would i want to recruit that person so do you get my point you do not bombard the employer and go with that intention they can make it out but what you should do is you should network and you should approach with a with a very easy approach not a very greedy approach right so keep that in mind as an immigrant my i have told this in my earlier blogs also to all the lawyers out there that try and discount your foreign experience see i know you've been working really hard in your home countries but i what what i do want you to understand is that you are a new immigrant in this country and there are people who are living already in this country who sustain on this economy and everything so you need to keep that in mind to do not do don't mind nobody minds here to go for a job which is under your credentials or to make your CV look like that so for example i have done 10 years of maybe experience and if my 10 years of experience with my 10 years of experience on my CV i'm trying to buy a sales job then i probably won't even get that but you need that job because you need to survive in Canada in the initial start right so you need to tailor your CV and you to discount your foreign experience and how will you do that when you try and be humble in this country just try and be humble and down to earth in this country and just try to be with a smile because you know Canadians love the smile just with a smile approach any kind of job every kind of job and just be open that way but do not think that your foreign experience is going to get you magical magical advantage no you have to discount your foreign experience in order to step by step climb the Canadian economy if i really want to share with you guys and it is very crucial and very interesting now this lady she's a LinkedIn connection manager i was reading her interview and she says that one of the tip to find a job is embrace the humble brag now what do i mean by embrace the humble brag what i mean is now you are going to be giving interviews so what if you are not selected in one interview so what if you're not selected in two interviews you're eventually going to make it but what is also essential that you need to know is that you are gaining the experience of giving interviews now this female here she says that what you have to do as an exercise is tell your loved ones your spouse your kids your mother father whoever it is in your family friends and family ask them to write what they like about you now once they have written what they like about you you know those are your selling points and try to sell them in your LinkedIn profile maybe in your interview in your informational interviews just try to sell those points because see it is not about bragging about something it is a humble brag why is it a humble brag because those these are your good points and these are going to fetch you some kind of unique identity so try and expose them to your employer or your recruiter and i am sure that you're going to get there one last tip is that i often tell this that how many of us are really prepared to walk through that door right now i don't think so you are i don't think so i would be given an opportunity i would have to and no we have to be prepared before you know there is a final nail in the coffin so how do we do that we do that when we read about read about our subject read about the job market and when we personalize and when we network with the intention of finding a job maybe deep down in our hearts obviously we do want some kind of favor after all we're humans but we also need to understand that we need to personalize we need to have a personalized touch to all of it even if it is your cover letter if it is your CV if it is tailored according to the companies and the person who's your network according to his or maybe his mindset then i am sure you are above a lot many applicants so keep this in mind that you give a personalized touch so even if you are done with an interview send a thank you note because that shows okay you thought it true but send a thank you note after 24 hours or maybe 48 hours network as much as you can but do network with without an intention of getting immediate result you might get results but within the span of some time just be patient so guys i hope all of these steps were useful for you all now that i'm going i'm going to say bye to all of you and going to say all the best do not worry in the covid times when this get over i don't know how the market is going to be it is after corona and before corona so it can be a c and b c but we do not know what is going to happen for now but i know what i do know is that the legal market is really affected and it is one of the professions which is going to be hardest hit and also guys if you want to follow more for my informational and my legal blogs do follow me on instagram at this and then you will know that i also you know share my legal knowledge with you guys but anything that i say 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