 hi guys welcome back to my youtube channel so how are you guys I hope everybody is doing well and now that the COVID thing is getting eased down in countries so I'm sure that you guys you know can hope for a better future at least for lawyers in Canada right now there's a hiring freeze as per COVID but eventually what I've read and what I was going through some some of the legal recruitment firms I realized that you know they will eventually ease down and lawyers key hiring will go to a boom again but it will take some time and especially some typical kind of lawyers which will take time so guys I want to start today by saying that you have to put yourself in an uncomfortable zone only then can you grow Joe look see a question to try to get a little bit carry okay how what the legal market is how the job market is can say what the hiring is yes I can share a bracket with you I will share some data with you some research with you some authentic docker data with you if you can analyze for yourself but end of the end of the day you have to realize that it boils down to your passion for this profession because this profession is nothing without passion you know I know we all know that this profession at least is nothing because without your endurance and your perseverance and so is in Canada Canada me up look so to give foreign lawyers but may I just put my my point of view is that it which other country in the world will recognize your degree from backup I don't think seven to ten thousand dollars is a bad deal people actually are in loans and in debt to do their law schools from here even though I'm sure that they get placed but competition toughy rest and which other country you know can give you that kind of opportunities the way Canada is giving so I am very much in favor of the fact that if you have the right will power path and you're right kind of added you then probably you can achieve anything in life this is such a small thing and logon koi bhat bada risk like that you're mahasi chodaki nare hain to api is what you're going to have immigrate kandega mind tonight jukyo to say what our risk is kuch nahi hain right apka patan idil lagya na lagya sub kuch hoi noi but eventually if you're positive as a person you can be positive even in India even in Canada you can be positive anywhere and you just have to see what is better for you your family and for your future so right now the opportunity is open that is why I am very optimistic about this thing that people should take the chance and eventually kya hu gaza this sadab ka nahi idil lagya kaha pappas to lejana but that's okay at least give it a try so that you have some experience to share today whatever mistakes I have done or anything which I lag I'm going to share with you guys and why I like I'm also going to share the reason so that apo cheese cover up kar kya ho ya apo cheese cover up kar ho yaha pe ake because still the time you do not have the kind of local experience it's going to be a tough call it's not going to be easy now that today's data that I'm going to share with you guys is something very practical there's something you can judge for yourself but you have to be you know you have to know this fact that it's not going to be served you in a platter you have to be very determined to reach there and I'm going to share some of the data figures and some of the key points kaise sab kuch chaos a a kaha e recozid experience kithna matter karte hai sab kuch everything to today we are going to discuss asha sab se pehle I don't know how many of you believe but I am a firm believer ke aap duhs ron k experience se siy kya apne zindagi ka time thwara bachau. I mean yeh jina bhi kuch seekha jobi karal jina bhi abhi tha you know wherever my journey has been till now it has just been because of the fact that I have tried to incorporate some things from other people and from their experiences. I have tried to not do that. Still I've lacked something and today that's what I'm going to share. So maybe you can work on that. And if you are also a firm believer in this, then I'm sure you know that what is the importance of saving that kind of time. Now my first tip is to discount your foreign experience. My experience with litigation in India, and everyone knows the litigation of India, which I've heard from India, that there is a lot of litigation between courts, or district court, high court, though I was working in high court. But still, you have the exposure of all kinds of jurisdiction. But the only thing that I felt is, no doubt it made me very smart. It taught me how to deal with clients. It taught me so many things, because my mentor was very good then. And he taught me so many things and he taught me so much about legal skills. During the course of that time, it got enriched. But the only thing that I felt when I came here was that I am still a fresher. Now I come here and count myself as a fresher. I didn't make a mistake in my mind that I understand my two years of exposure and experience. Because if I understood myself, then I did not even article there. I did not do anything because I took that kind of leverage and I did not article, I didn't do any summer internships there. So I do not even know what are the different colours of civil litigation and family litigation files. I didn't even know that. So all of this I learnt during my training, or during my volunteering training and with the firm that I'm working. So these are the things that I learned from my father. But what I'm trying to say is that I started as a fresher, even though I had two years of post-qualification experience. And I did give myself that discount. Because it is taken very seriously here. If you are talking about a second year associate, then they are expecting that you will get all the work done in the first year. So when you discount yourself, you are already not reaching that kind of expectation of the employer and they are not expecting it from you. And there are many jobs that are specifically written that they need three plus years of post-qualification. They need two plus years, they need one plus year. So you can find yourself fitting somewhere at least. Somewhere your skills will hit the employer's skill set, match with yourself. And your CV and the cover letter will speak for itself. So I think the first thing the favour you can do to yourself is that discount your foreign experience. If you have say 5 to 7 years of foreign experience, you can probably cut it short to 3 to 4 years. Now it is also spirit specific, but this time specifically talking about litigation. But if you are in corporate commercial, even though it's transferable internationally, still I would say that do not have very high hopes. Start from low so that you can somewhere reach in between. I think that to play a role is the geography of the place where you are going to become a lawyer or probably where you are going to settle or how you can find your workplace. So the thing is that when you are in the poor areas like the cities you see here, Toronto, Georgia, Calgary, maybe the hubs of every province. So these are the places which are called downtowns. As you know what a downtown may be. And the competition of the high salary in downtowns is always more. So all these legal recruitment firms or salary guides are of downtown areas. So if you type on Google what is the average salary of a lawyer in Canada, it is what they are talking about a downtown salary. Minimum, if you are like me who you know you are freshly called to the bar and without any Canadian, much Canadian experience I would say, then you are probably you can expect anything starting from 55 to 60, 65 thousand per, a thousand dollars cat per year which is not bad to start with. Honestly, I will make one blog on the expenses also. But I am just trying to say that you know how you can manage, what you can expect. So downtown areas, if you go out, like the GTA, Greater Toronto area, there is Brampton, there is Miss Saga, there is one, all these areas. And just in Miss Saga, I am in Miss Saga, so I can speak for the GTA area. That, in GTA, there are a lot of immigrants, the only benefit is that you get people of, you know, you get your type of people and your language is also used and your kind of skills is also required there. So employers are also looking for foreign trained lawyers in GTA mode because of the fact that they are more, they need more people because their client base is less. So their client is foreigner obviously and we, there are also a lot of immigrants in Canada, mostly immigrants, so immigrants also need lawyers. So they are Chinese, if someone's Chinese is Mandarin, then they get benefits, language benefits. So geography of the place is very important. However, you cannot say that you will be paid less in GTA, but yes, the competition is little less and the salaries are little less that way, but work-life balance is very good. Other things benefit you a lot. And eventually, you know, you can grow, at least you can start with this kind of exposure and then probably you can grow. However, if you have a very good international experience, like I know someone, who has international exposure, corporate commercial is very good, Dubai is also good, UK is also good. So these guys can expect that they can easily, at least they can, you know, get land and interview in top firms, tier one firms, just what you can do in large firms and they can probably secure a place, a job there. I will also take some interviews in the coming vlogs and you can, you know, put your questions in the comment section because there will be less time and I want to pick my best questions so that you can judge for yourself what that kind of exposure is. But, in short, I am trying to say that that kind of experience will get that kind of platform. So this is some of the data that I am going to share. These are some of the legal recruitment. So this is how legal recruitment firms are. And you have firms, they are like a consulting group, right? Now that you are a lawyer in Canada, you can call them, contact them, talk to them and understand the legal market. Like they are like the way I am, I have done, I have done this and I am still doing it for you guys. So I have brought this data and you guys have to follow this networking website. Not networking, sorry, these legal groups. Contact them and ask them if you can enhance your skills or if you can do it. You can get in touch with them but their average salary guide is like this. And like this, for every province, different salary guides are given by ZSL Legal. ZSL Legal is a very good firm. Very good website too. But they sometimes say that, you know, we do not call first years. We do not do recruitment for first years. First year after getting called in Canada, called to the bar here. So you can accordingly see that the global network is up, you know, you can find something for yourself. But they do have headhunters and there can be, if you have a good experience, so you can even get in touch with them. So I would suggest this is also one of the good ways to maybe land your first job in Canada. Now, the third point is that, what area of law are you working in? If you are a private practicing small firm, working with a single lawyer, maybe litigation anywhere, some private practice lawyer who has a small incorporation, then you can probably expect that even though you will get first hand experience, eventually your mind set up would be that two years, three years down the line, you want to change that firm or you want to go to, you want to look for a better opportunity, which is no harm. Everybody goes to a better opportunity land for a, you know, better job prospects. So everybody does do that because after a point of time, it becomes stagnancy. But I have also seen people who have that kind of phone and exposure who open their practice. So you will see so many lawyers here who qualify to open the real estate office, start immigration. That is a good thing to start up with, that the real estate will give you running income. It does because here every property sale is through a real estate lawyer. So real estate that way can help you to start up your own practice and later, you can, you know, get into litigation. So our private practice versus a corporate or commercial job or a litigation firm, you know, you can evaluate what works for you. To start with, I have thought for myself for me, I think it's good to get some exposure in some firms and then probably, you know, one day I might as well start my own thing but right now I'm just working and learning and as much as you can learn as a fresher. Let me share one more insight with you. Many Canadian bar associations are going and I've been a very active member of that as well for the meeting. So one of the prime things that I learned in that kind of duration is that networking is so important and networking without expecting anything immediately is super important but networking means you can understand that I was listening to this lady who works in a top law firm here and she said that 80% of the jobs are not in the market. Like you will not get it or indeed you will not find those jobs anywhere. 20% is what is posted and everybody applies for that 20%. 80% is only internal reference. How important internal reference in Canada is I can't even tell you because obviously if you are working in a company like a company say Deloitte maybe if you are a Deloitte there and now you know somebody who's been a member of Deloitte India or has been a member of Deloitte anywhere outside then you can refer that person and you can vouch for that person and that preference will hold value because they give a lot of weight to their employees. So that is a good thing also a bad thing also but it's just how you use it right but it's still very much relevant here and you should think about having some kind of internal references if you have if you do not have then that's okay start networking be very you know very open to opportunities. Now one thing I would like to share is how you can survive while you are doing all these things that I'm saying see I understand the practicality of everything I know that you will come here you will spend everything so according to me if you are an NCA candidate or you are on that stage on the licensing process stage so I suggest that you alternative use alternative options to see what you can do so I'm sharing some of the alternative options which I saw on a website which I thought is very relevant Paralegal legal you should apply for these posts because in in that capacity even if you find temporary work as a paralegal or something you can get into a firm you make you build connections you build your goodwill and that will really help you later believe me I have known people who have worked for two years as a law clerk and thereafter secured such a good associate position in a law firm which is a downtown law firm your graph has to go up so why not start with your networking but for all this you have to be very mentally strong some days will be very dark I'm driving you but have to be mentally strong know your ultimate goal and I'm sure that you can do it one of the websites I'm sharing is very good in terms of having a sample resume and sample template and how a sample cover letter should look like if your skill matches your job requirement then it's going to be very beautiful for you and you are very enthusiastic for that so guys enjoy this space and just prepare for the be prepared for the world but do your best also this salary your high QA it's going to get there you are going to reach there you are going to as you know unfold your journey in Canada you will see so many things I'm going to shortly make a vlog on expenses expenses as a PR or as a new immigrant I'm going to make a vlog on that for sure I'm going to share the rent rent rent I'm going to try and cover all those tips for you for that you need to keep following and subscribe to my channel share as much as you can I hope you like it and keep a clear picture in your mind do not get confused with so many people input but just have time and evaluate for yourself because every person is unique bye guys take care