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Glad to find you considering sense of purpose and how to have a positive impact on peoples lives. I hope you are prepared to be satisfied with incremental results. I guess the place to start is how to have maximum impact and how to get maximum traction. If you think you are cut out for leadership the city council meetings are ins to county and state offices.Another angle on max traction is to choose methods that can be applied the most minutes of the day in your normal day. Online there are a large number of voters that have fundamental problems with choosing candidates to vote for.Another angle is to write reps and senators and anyone else you think can have impact with effective and persuasive reasoning.I have spent some time chatting with programmers about effective communication at a website on memetics. If you have not yet looked at memetics this is a valuable lexicon and primer on memetic engineering: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.htmlAthttp://www.memecentral.com/Level3.htm(You will like this guy. He wrote Microsoft Word)I was asked to explicitly word my chosen life purpose, as an exercise, and I came up with, to improve myself, others, and the environment we share.This template can be applied to every situation anywhere anytime to check to see if you are on purpose or off purpose.Welcome, and thanks for being you.

Here are 10 unique things you can do to find a job in Canada, that other new immigrants to Canada do not do, because there is nobody out there that teaches this stuff:#1 Record an elevator pitch video on your mobile phoneAs a new immigrant, employers will have an unconscious bias against your communication skills, which is a soft skill you’d find as a requirement in almost every job description.If you have a video elevator pitch, your communication skills and vocabulary will be exposed, and squash any negative biases or assumptions the employer or recruiter may have made about you.If you have trouble memorizing words then use a teleprompter app like Video Teleprompter Premium.Create a great 30–45 second elevator pitch, load it up on YouTube, and add it to your LinkedIn profile. Link to it from your emails to hiring managers and recruiters as well.Research how to do good elevator pitches. Don’t assume you know how.#2 Anglicize/Shorten your nameThis is a sensitive topic, but worth mentioning as well. The University of Toronto and Ryerson University did a study that found job seekers with non-anglicized names received 20–40 percent less callbacks, compared to their Anglo-named counterparts with the exact same qualifications.This is less of a problem in large corporate organizations in Canada where diversity and inclusion is more actively practiced.If you have an ethnic name that is really long and you believe will be challenging for a Canadian to pronounce, consider shortening it for your resumé and LinkedIn profile.#3 Grow you network to 25As a new immigrant you don’t have a large network. And that’s a problem.Because according to Business Council of Canada that surveyed 90 large sector Canadian employers, 90% of them source candidates from referrals.According to author Orville Pierson in his book “Highly Effective Job Search” it takes, on average, 25 network connections to get the job you want.These 25 people are not recruiters. They are people who have the power and authority to hire you.So make a list of 10–15 companies you want to target in Canada, and used a LinkedIn filtered search by company and job title, and the premium account to InMail these people directly.Don’t ask for jobs.Just stay in touch and offer value to them. If they accept your connection request you don’t need to sacrifice an InMail credit.If they respond to your InMail, you get your credit back.Think of the popular marketing concept of “The Rule of 7”. Someone needs to see an ad 7 times before they consider buying your brand.If you must measure the progress of your job search, let it not be the the number of jobs you apply for online everyday. Let it be about sending 175 (25x7) outreach messages to your network during a sensible course of time.“Hellos” and “Hope you are doing well” messages don’t count. It must be something that is of value to the recipient.#4 Write cover letters the right wayRecruiters and managers will tell you they ignore reading cover letters.That’s because everyone usually sucks at writing cover letters.According to Job Search expert Liz Ryan from Human Workplace, a cover letter should read like a business pain letter.The focus should be about what business pain you believe your future manager is feeling right now, and how you’ve solved that pain in the past.Every job exists because there is a pain or problem that needs fixing.Research about the best way to write cover letters instead of assuming you know how.#5 Post your resumé and cover letter directly to hiring managersThe postal service is alive and well in Canada, and often underestimated.The benefit of using it is, unlike email, your letters will never be ignored.Head to Shopper’s Drug Mart, and invest in stamps, envelopes.Then those 25 contacts you discovered? Post them your resumé and cover letter.That’s the easy part.If you want to make good impressions, you have to take the trouble to research about the company and person, and create a customized cover letter to each of them.I know it takes a lot of effort. Well, how badly do you want that first job in Canada?#6 Read this book “20 Minute Networking Meeting” by Nathan PerezMany immigrants don’t have a network in Canada.But they make so many mistakes when trying to build that network, even though they’ve been network building their whole lives in their home country.And the reason is because they have never networked with a purpose.This short book gives you the details on how to network with purpose and achieve the ultimate goal of meeting with professional Canadians in person.#7 Search YouTube for Dr. Lionel LarocheYou need to understand how Canadian work culture is different from your home country.Communication, leadership, feedback, meetings, punctuality are just some of the areas in which Canada is different to the rest of the world, especially when compared to Asia and the middle east.Dr. Lionel Laroche specializes in Canadian Work culture and how it relates to immigrants.Watch his videos and reflect on how it relates back to how you present yourself in the interview.His talks are both enlightening and entertaining.#8 Gain Canadian Experience the RIGHT wayMany will tell you to volunteer your time.That’s the wrong advice!If you’re looking for a job in accounting, hiring managers are not going to care that you’ve gotten “volunteer experience” packaging food with meals on wheels or greeting visitor and handing out fliers at some random organization.If you want to volunteer to give back to the community, good for you. Give your time generously anywhere.But if your agenda is to get a full-time job, that’s different story altogether.You’re better off volunteering your time at events where you are surrounded by people who have the power and authority to hire you. Join an association in your field in Canada and contact the board of directors directly and make yourself available to them for volunteer work.Yes it’s an investment to join an association. But if it ends your job search sooner, or gets you a job that pay you $10K more per year, it’s well worth the investment#9 Read as many job descriptions for your target job title as you canBy default, every new immigrant that I’ve worked with makes the mistake of brain dumping their past experiences on to their resumé.Remember it’s not about what you did in the past.It’s about what your future employer needs and how you translate your past experience to those needs.Read job descriptions for your target job title. As many as you can. And when you’re done, read some more.Notice trends in requirements and qualifications, industry language in Canadian terms and any gaps you find.Make sure your resumé speaks to those trends.Fill those gaps if you have them.And after doing this research, then decide if you need more education. Don’t waste your time and money pursuing more education just because you want to keep yourself busy and feel productive.Education is not valued in North America as much as it is in Asia.If the job description does not mention a Master’s degree or a certification for your target job title, don’t bother getting one if your sole purpose of pursuing it is to improve your chances of getting your first job.#10 Make sure your resumé has these words in itAccording to a study done by Career Builder, these are the most popular words to use on a resumé. Make sure you use them in your experience section:AchievedImprovedTrained/MentoredManagedCreatedResolvedVolunteeredInfluencedIncreased/DecreasedIdeasClick here to download a high-converting Canadian resumé templateGood luck and welcome to Canada!

A2A…which makes it all weird because this isn’t my realm…If you want to hear about general transcription, keep reading.If not, go away. I didn’t answer the question. I’m only answering because I was asked.I’m a general transcriptionist — meaning, I transcribe pretty much everything but legal and medical…unless it’s legal or medical research or developing curriculum.Generalists are specialized in doing everything and adapting quickly.Most of the audios I get are too complex for a computer to figure out by itself.Speaking from experience, generalists transcribe —Focus groupsSeminar presentationsSales presentationsWebinarsPharmaceutical/biomedical researchPodcastsRough footage for TV or documentariesEarnings callsConference callsMarket researchInvestigation interviewsPI/espionage conversationsJournalist interviewsCouncil meetingsBoard meetingsAcademia stuff (it’s a vast sector)Land use surveysSocial worker type thingsSocial researchBehavioral researchSoft pornInsurance claimsDharma talks…etc……I can keep going with the stuff I’ve repeatedly encountered, but hopefully you get the idea. In the last month I’ve worked on projects relating to over half that list… lots of different styles of speaking and trade-speak.There’s also other things we general scribes do, like timestamps, strict verbatim/edited for clarity, creating templates, and audio tweaking. Also, the more accents you can understand, the easier it goes.With general transcription, you just have to knuckle in, put the pedal to the floor, and keep going. Keep learning, keep improving. The more you can do, the better the rates.I do my best to make excellent transcripts rapidly and accurately, then people pay me. That’s my secret formula. I can only go as fast as I can go.Oh, and spell the words right and punctuate to the best of my ability. It’s also imperative that I’m mindful of the differences between I/eye/aye, their/there/they’re, to/two/too, board/bored, petal/pedal/peddle, right/write/rite, site/cite/sight, insight/incite…Mi’gmak/Mi’kmaq/Micmac, Kangiqsujuaq/Kangiqsualujjuaq (that alu is hard to differentiate for a qallunaat.)…it gets more advanced the deeper you go…I haven’t figured out Mi’gmak/Mi’kmaq/Micmac, yet.I started with zero experience, maybe typing 60wpm. That first audio hour took me 9 hours to transcribe, and then several more hours to proof. I had the dictionary handy to make sure I wasn’t screwing up my spellings.I get faster and better with each file.Today, I had a 68 minute file, 3 speakers, accents, and some funky googling to find some name spellings (I love to confuse the hell out of my Google - predictive analytics, my ass)…5 hours of work. 12,000 words, roughly a penny a word.…the next thing in queue is in an Indian accent, talking about Vinoba Bhave and the Bhoodan Movement, and it’s very time-stampy. Wonderful content, difficult file.If you have the equipment and mind to transcribe, think about general transcription.Keep in mind, that I have yet to find a consistent workflow. Either I have too much and have to let a lot go to the next person, or there’s nothing to do and I’m pulling my beard out…To anybody who really dedicates themselves to scribing, it’s great as a secondary income. Have something planned to fill up the gaps.…it’s okay to stop reading now, unless you really want to be a scribe……In reading this, I think back as if I was reading this 10 years ago…if what I wrote up there excites you and you’re thinking, “Oh, yeah, I want to do that!” You can do it. Go make transcripts. Keep taking tests until you pass. Keep taking tests until you like the people you’re working for. Don’t sell yourself short. Think about your ergonomics and don’t hurt yourself. Make sure you socialize now and again. Find ways to be more efficient and to minimize finger movements.If it sounds hard to you, it’s okay to shift gears to think about doing something else.…it’s been another hard and thankless day, but realizing I have become the guy who gets to write this answer is kinda cool…I would have intimidated the bejeezus out of myself 10 years ago. (Nobody has any clue how many voices come at me when I read down that list I wrote up there.) I’d still want to be me, to be the guy who knows what goes into all those transcripts. Realizing I am me is a whole different matter.But really, it’s not hard. It’s just putting out the words and not getting hung up on things that eat up your time.My experience really means nothing. My experience just helps me get my job done a little faster. I have a general familiarity with lots of things, that’s all. It’s the same rates whether I have 6 months experience or 10 years experience.Go apply to some agencies and fail some tests. They should cost you nothing. Good companies will return your transcript to show you what they don’t like. After enough of that, you’ll have 80% of what you need to learn to be a general transcriptionist. Study their style-guides, do your best.Good luck.