Ageism in the workplace
Feb 17th 2004 | 12:21 am
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Ageism in the workplace
Hi all
Great forum and I've been lurking for a while, but now I've got a question I'd like to ask.
My husband and I are in our mid-late forties and have applied to immigrate to Canada and are hoping to live in BC. Husband's background is in IT Project Management and having done a lot of reading of threads on this site and others, I know that jobs are currently very scarce in IT in BC. If our app for PR is accepted and judging by what I've heard about processing times of applications, there's a chance that by the time we get to Canada my husband will be 50 years old.
Knowing how tough it is for immigrants to find work initially (even though we will both be more than willing to do almost anything to get the must have 'Canadian' experience to start with), will my husband's age go against him too? I know ageism is illegal but it nevertheless unfortunately exists. So what's the situation like in Canada? Will his age make it doubly difficult to find work?
Great forum and I've been lurking for a while, but now I've got a question I'd like to ask.
My husband and I are in our mid-late forties and have applied to immigrate to Canada and are hoping to live in BC. Husband's background is in IT Project Management and having done a lot of reading of threads on this site and others, I know that jobs are currently very scarce in IT in BC. If our app for PR is accepted and judging by what I've heard about processing times of applications, there's a chance that by the time we get to Canada my husband will be 50 years old.
Knowing how tough it is for immigrants to find work initially (even though we will both be more than willing to do almost anything to get the must have 'Canadian' experience to start with), will my husband's age go against him too? I know ageism is illegal but it nevertheless unfortunately exists. So what's the situation like in Canada? Will his age make it doubly difficult to find work?
Feb 17th 2004 | 1:15 am
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Re: Ageism in the workplace
Originally posted by Lydia_700
Hi all
Great forum and I've been lurking for a while, but now I've got a question I'd like to ask.
My husband and I are in our mid-late forties and have applied to immigrate to Canada and are hoping to live in BC. Husband's background is in IT Project Management and having done a lot of reading of threads on this site and others, I know that jobs are currently very scarce in IT in BC. If our app for PR is accepted and judging by what I've heard about processing times of applications, there's a chance that by the time we get to Canada my husband will be 50 years old.
Knowing how tough it is for immigrants to find work initially (even though we will both be more than willing to do almost anything to get the must have 'Canadian' experience to start with), will my husband's age go against him too? I know ageism is illegal but it nevertheless unfortunately exists. So what's the situation like in Canada? Will his age make it doubly difficult to find work?
Hi all
Great forum and I've been lurking for a while, but now I've got a question I'd like to ask.
My husband and I are in our mid-late forties and have applied to immigrate to Canada and are hoping to live in BC. Husband's background is in IT Project Management and having done a lot of reading of threads on this site and others, I know that jobs are currently very scarce in IT in BC. If our app for PR is accepted and judging by what I've heard about processing times of applications, there's a chance that by the time we get to Canada my husband will be 50 years old.
Knowing how tough it is for immigrants to find work initially (even though we will both be more than willing to do almost anything to get the must have 'Canadian' experience to start with), will my husband's age go against him too? I know ageism is illegal but it nevertheless unfortunately exists. So what's the situation like in Canada? Will his age make it doubly difficult to find work?
There seems to be a lot of fascination with BC for some reason, why limit yourself to just this province?
One way of getting out of this red-tape bereaucracy, is to try and secure a job for your husband, before you get here. The reason why am saying this, is that once he gets here, his qualifications are not going to be recognised because he hasn't got canadian work experience. Am afraid he is going to have to break into the industry from an entry-level position, and then hopefully his experience would speak for itself.
Am saying this as someone in this business myself, even though am only in my early 30s, when i came over here, leaving my job with pricewaterhousecoopers in central london (Uk), i found myself tackling this problem, so am speaking from experience.
He will also have to get his qualifications recognised into the canadian equivalent of it, here is a link for that:
http://www.cicic.ca/factsheets/factsheet2en.stm
Ageism is illegal, but in a country like this, they can well use it against you if you are coming from another country, simply by saying they don't recognise your qualifications and you have no canadian experience.
I know this is frowned upon in the UK, after many cases have been taken to the high court.
Good luck to both of you !!!
Last edited by s1lv3rsh4dow; Feb 17th 2004 at 2:36 am.
