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I am a UK migrant. I transferred here with my company and left after a year and struggled to find a job for a while. What I learnt was that it wasn’t “Canadian Experience” holding me back even though I had been applying for other jobs for about 6 months before I quit my job. It was the cultural differences between UK and Canada that I had failed to recognise.I’ve since been working at a company for over a year and am responsible for the recruitment of staff. Each position gets an overwhelming amount of applicants so if you submit an application with any of these traits, it’s an easy way for a recruiter to condense their applicant pool to be more manageable. Here is what I have learnt about how to get a job in Canada.1-ALWAYS write a cover letterThe second I started adding a well thought out and personable cover letter to my application, my phone was ringing off the hook!Being in charge of recruitment, I might get 20–30 applications a day. I have other responsibilities in my job so if someone makes the effort to write a cover letter, I will make the effort to read it. If no cover letter, well that’s one way for me to narrow down the pool.2-Tailor your CVSo you’ve written a cover letter but then you attach a CV that’s 4 pages long, talks about your experience as a chef and you’re applying to be an admin assistant, it’s riddled with mistakes and you’re telling me that yes, you are detail oriented as per the advert.This issue has nothing to do with jobs in Canada really. If a CV is your brand. Your advert about you at your best and it’s scruffy, no headings, spelling mistakes or starts with one of those bloody “Objective” headings, then it says more about you than you realise.Go to Google documents, use one of the CV templates, keep it clear, short, bullet point your transferable skills.3-Perfect your EnglishIgnorance is bliss. You may not realise that your English is not up to scratch but the recruiter does. Any kind of job that involves customer service, emails, phones generally requires a strong grasp of English. English is a very nuanced language where one letter can change the meaning completely. Managers don’t want to double check your work for misconstrued meanings, clarity and grammar checks, missed conjugations. Remember they have A LOT of applicants for this job. If your English isn’t as good as other applicants, you are at risk of being put on the No pile.Of course, there are jobs where perfect English is not necessary but don’t underestimate that this can make you stand out for the wrong reason in certain jobs.4-Canadian ExperienceI was told by a recruiter that employers are sceptical of newcomers because they don’t want to invest time in them and then they move home or move to a different part of Canada. Everyone takes a while to adjust and settle and find the place where they are happy and for me, this was strongly linked to finding the right job which is the irony.Canadians largely struggle with being direct. I don’t know if this is a west coast but I find many don’t say what they mean, instead they opt for something softer that won’t offend. So when you don’t interview well, don’t speak English well, aren’t the right cultural fit for the business, they’ll say you don’t have Canadian experience because it’s easy. They let Canadians down too. They won’t say it’s for any of the above reasons; it will normally be because they’ve found a more suitable candidate. They will pretty much never give direct feedback even though it would actually be really helpful to find out why you’re getting turned down.Remember, they’ve read your CV and invited you to interview so if you’re being told you lack Canadian experience, it’s generally not true. So don’t get hung up on that and look at how else you are presenting yourself in interview.

Note:: This is not a legal advice, Just sharing my experience.I did, I got my EAD on time, just be perfect..!! I-765, I-983, new i-20, photocopy of your previous receipt.before sending them the request, I also read lot of articles online and got really worried and tensed, but decided to take a risk but in a very professional manner.while sending it to USCIS, I mailed them to the potomac center which previously received my application(mentioned below on the receipt). Wrote a cover letter explaining details of previous employer, wrote details of new employer and request to change the employer to the new one.Wrote an index of all the documents attached, mentioned sequential order of the documents attached.Steps I followed while doing this:1. Submit new offer letter to DSO.2. Get new i-20 from university.3. Photocopy and sign the new i-20.4. Get the i-983 filled from new employer.5. Fill up new i-765.6. Write a cover letter requesting change in employer7. Write an index of all attached documents (Write in bold on the top ‘Request for change in Employer for receipt no: xxxxxxxx’ Highlight this with a highlighter).8. Photocopy of the previous receipt you received.9. Send the package to potomac center from where you received the receipt.10. Wait for your case status to get updated and say ‘Correspondence received’.Thanks for reading, Hope this helpsAgain……This is not a legal advice, I just shared my experience.

Since I'm not a data scientist or a Quora employee, everything I say should be taken with a heaping spoonful of salt, but:The letter is way too long for the content it contains.Your grammar needs some work; the sentence structure in particular is difficult to parse in places.Too much "I," not enough "you," and I'm not clear on how you envision the two meeting.You do a lot of selling but never ask for the sale.Right now, your letter reads like you read the JD (or ‎Yair Livne (יאיר ליבנה)‎'s answer to What skills do I need to be a data scientist at Quora?) and tried to tackle each bullet in order. It should read like a vignette about how you and Quora will be better with each other, with just enough evidence (or whiffs thereof) to entice a recruiter to schedule the interview.Remember that this is not your entire pitch. To use a sales analogy, you're not trying to close the hiring manager, you're trying to get them to open the door so you can put your bag down and talk more comfortably.In your second paragraph, you propose measuring & reducing a differential in sign-ups by age group. This is intellectually interesting, but I want to know why you consider the information important. How would you use it to drive product development or user growth? Why did you choose this example for your cover letter? (Is this your million dollar idea?)Your next paragraph almost starts addressing this, but you've opted to view this through the eyes of a user, not an employee. The first sentence is overly self-oriented; does Quora care which questions of yours have the potential for bringing in the most new content, or do they care more about which questions in general have that potential?You currently have 65k edits, 18k questions, and 2k posts. I'm a kindergartener in statistics compared to you, but I have to assume you could draw some interesting insights out of that data. Some example insights using your own data could give Quora a preview of your analytical skills, and creativity, while retaining personal relevance and highlighting the magnitude of your contributions.