spaceace

Hi,

What have your experiences been with Canadian HR - are they all slow and need the odd email to keep them focused?

I'm in a situation where I've had 2 interviews and they said they want to arrange a 3rd, but the trail seems to have gone cold......or am I being impatient?

TIA, S

Rich_007

Yes they're slow as a blind sloth on a bad day but dispatching more emails will piss them right off.

Rule #17 of business - never hurry a Canadian. They twitch and their eyes roll in their sockets.


Generally, Canadian HR = oxymoron

R.

spaceace

OK, I guess I need to be patient, it's hard

Rich_007

Patience is needed when dealing with Canadian businesses, generally speaking, in any realm manner or method.

They move at the white lightning pace of the melting arctic ice mass.

R.

spaceace

I'm used to fast pace, tight deadlines and instant responses

Rich_007

Me too, it's what I do. Prepare for disappointment and frustration. Unless you get lucky.

R.

Judy in Calgary

Prepare to enter the seventh circle of hell.

Or else go to Swaziland, a country that does not understand the urgency that mañana implies.
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spaceace

I take it, the pace it totally the opposite in Canada then?

Judy in Calgary

Well, not totally opposite.

Swaziland is totally opposite.

But Canada is laid back compared with the UK. That seems to be one of the features of Canada that endears it to Britons when they come here on holiday (vacation). The only problem is that, if it's laid back when one is on holiday, it doesn't suddenly wake out of its stupour when one is job hunting.
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Rich_007

It makes one's job tough if it enters the realms of quality, efficiency, performance, project management, deliverables, etc.

It's great for the work-life balance aspect, but there's also some work to do, people.

R.

moondevil

Get a large pillow/cushion and scream in it, get used to doing this

if you get the job, you maybe doing this alot
We arrived mid-sept and have just got our health cards through...if you asked them where they are they get upset, so i let his employer do that for us.

apart from that - good luck with the final bit of the interview

Rainey69

Totally agree, they don't like any form of confrontation. As Moonie said get a pillow, you will need it. On the up side, once you get into the way of thinking here......it's fab......no stress.

Good luck with it all and don't give up hope, they are probably still getting over the weekend/s

Rainey

Souvenir

Generally speaking, Canadian HR is bloody slow. It can, however, move very quickly when it wants to. We are going through this at the moment. Souvette became aware, over a couple of drinks with mates, of a job opening less than two weeks ago. She starts in mid-December. And we're talking government here, possibly the slowest of the lot.

Tangram

Agreed.

Madmac

Yes, but she knows how to use the business end of a gun.