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Canada recruits high-skilled foreigners in US β and gets 10,000 applications
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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I would be interested to know what they are paying. I live in eastern Ontario and work for a US company. I generally won't even talk to Canadian companies because they offer less than half what I'm making now. I've been ghosted by head hunters working in Canada as soon as I tell them my compensation expectations. I told one that the company wasn't going to be ably to hire even an entry level sales engineer for what they were offering for a senior position.
If Canadian companies want to recruit actual top talent they need to double what they are offering st an opening negotiating position in terms of compensation.
Yes, but, money isn't everything. I once left a high paying job in the US to come back to Canada, get paid less, and be way happier.
Working for a US company and living in Canada is a good way to go, but is harder to swing if you are not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
Plus it sounds like the people they're talking about in this scenario may have their H1-B revoked and they wouldn't have a job or a visa to stay in the US at all. Canada, even with a lower paying job seems like a good option.
Why did Canadian companies make you happier? I've worked for both, we definitely have the same work culture as the US, at least in the Ontario tech sector.
Canada in general made me happier. Not necessarily the companies specifically. As much as we can complain about our health care issue here in Canada, the social safety net here is significantly better. And I had "good" insurance coverage in the states. It was a constant fear of getting sick or injured and ending up in the wrong hospital and not getting covered (or any number of other reasons). Add to that the social pressure to spend money on everything in the states. Everyone I knew down there was in debt up to their eyeballs, no matter how much they made. It was ridiculous.