This is a question one asks from you start the migration project, still barely haciéndosela here, continues haciéndosela after a few months here and even after some years and have already taken decisions (study, work , etc.) continues haciéndosela, so I guess not much to spend on post this week to reflect on it, from my own experience. I notice that are my ideas and not necessarily what I think must be valid for other cases probably with different conditions. I think that somehow all cases are unique.
I will refer specifically to people who come to Quebec as independent and who have gone through a process in their country of origin to be selected by Quebec. These people are professionals in different areas and have work experience. They have also revealed a knowledge of French is minimal and in some cases English. The first thing to note is that the process is aimed at achieving a visa as a skilled worker and in that sense it is assumed that the person should come to Quebec to work. This seems like an obvious one, but not so much because I've heard cases of people rejected in the interview by saying that the first thing to come to Quebec would be entering school. It is a mistake in the interview because if the person wants to come to study it makes sense to ask a student visa and not as a skilled worker visa. Another thing different is that here you see the need to study before entering the labor market.
Good. Then you come to Quebec as a skilled worker with all feel like working. However, the person can find here different scenarios. Try to name a few.
1. The person realizes that brings the level of French is not good enough to get a good job, then decide to go to study French. It uses different aid offered by the Québec government in this regard. It is the choice they have made the vast majority of people I know.
2. Start working in your area. I think this is the ideal option, but not always easy. Shortly after arriving, the person begins to seek work in your area and find it. I have noticed that these cases are almost always in two areas: information technology and languages. For all other professions and trades the cases I have seen are less, but that does not mean it is impossible.
3. Start working on a survival job. It is always possible to find jobs to survive, such as making toilets, handing publisac, washing dishes, etc.. However, what I noticed is that people who take this option realize after a while that this does not completely satisfied, for several reasons. The first is that many of these jobs do not improve the level of language, then the person will in some way marginalized in the new society they came. The second is that these jobs seldom give opportunity to advance or improve the workforce, which means that after some time the person feels stagnant. I've seen in many of these cases is that the person then leaves some time to study these works, or in critical cases ends returning to their country of origin.
4. Study, usually at the university. It is here, paradoxically, where you can enter more easily, without much need to demonstrate language proficiency.
5. Another option I've seen so often is to seek social assistance and not working or studying so declared. In many cases the person performing work are not reported to keep her welfare. Is a relatively easy, but it also poses the problem that the individual can hardly make progress in work.
I think these are the most common. In a future post I will comment on them, since this entry was too long, and I know long posts almost nobody reads them.
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