Advice requested for Electronics Technician job search (Toronto area)

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Hi there,

Do lots of googling, and make yourself a list of all the companies in the Toronto area that build or repair things electrical or electronic. Here in Ottawa, there are two specialized newspapers that report on the local business environment. One of them is:

Conduct a search for similar reporting vehicles in the GTA, and work your way through the companies in it that are listed, advertise, or are reported on.

Good luck!

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Electronics technicians might qualify for jobs in manufacturing concerns as quality assurance technicians, etc. Just because the focus of a company is not specifically on electronics does not mean that there are no prospects there for a person with your credentials. Good luck!

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Don't wait for positions to be advertized, most companies have a rolling recruitment program and will recruit decent staff while they can.

Find out what companies in your area do the type of work you are interested in, and write an application letter (letter of introduction) geared to suit the specifics of the company in question (you'll have to do a little research) and send that along with the CV. This is one thing which is better sent by snail mail.

Get on the phone to the company (or on the web) and get the name of the person responsible for recruiting and address your letter and CV to that person.

I had my CV drawn up professionally, and was well impressed. they did a much better and more professional job that I would have done.

arrange the CV such that the more salient points are on the first page. these points being what you are doing now, or were doing until recently and try and emphasize skills which would suit the company in question.

Before you go for an interview, get a good understanding of what the company does, Then you'll know what kind of answers they want from you and you'll kinow what kind of questions to ask them. Interviewers will be more impressed if you apear to have done some research on the company's business.

Good luck. Kevin R

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All good advice, but if you contact the hiring manager directly, rather than going through HR filters, you'll drastically improve you chances of being hired. A bit of research on who is who within the company can make all the difference. Harry C.

Do you need to stay in Toronto? Do you realize that as a "scientific technician" you can extend your job search to the USA as well. I'm from Vancouver and under a TN-1 visa, I have been in Southern California for over

3 years now and I'm now making over US$76,000. And I'm doing world class work.

Found the job through monster.com.

The visa costs $50.00 a year and as a Canadian citizen, as long as you have a US job offer, you can't be turned down. Approval takes minutes. However, you must be a Canadian citizen. This deal is not available to citizens of any other country.

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If anyone wants to know how to save 66% on the cost of moving to California, please let me know.

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"Dan Fraser" wrote : Do you need to stay in Toronto? Do you realize that as a "scientific : technician" you can extend your job search to the USA as well. I'm from : Vancouver and under a TN-1 visa, I have been in Southern California for : over 3 years now and I'm now making over US$76,000. And I'm doing world : class work. : Found the job through monster.com. : The visa costs $50.00 a year and as a Canadian citizen, as long as you : have a US job offer, you can't be turned down. Approval takes minutes. : However, you must be a Canadian citizen. This deal is not available to : citizens of any other country. : See

: If anyone wants to know how to save 66% on the cost of moving to : California, please let me know. : Dan snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net

I live in California, and can't imagine anyone voluntarily moving here!

Damn, there's ANOTHER Quake, and AFTER the power went off for an hour and a half!

Also there is the FACT that in technical areas employment sucks! I know many people that are unemployed, and if $50 would fix it I would gladly pay it. I get about 3 months a year of work, and THAT is all world class! However I personally know thirty-six engineers and senior techs who are un-employed with no prospects. Temp jobs only go so far.

Save yourself a trip, they flip burgers in Canada too, and the cost of living couldn't be as bad!

Roger Gt.

I love living in Toronto, it is a world class city, my family is here, and I'm trying to settle down (you know, the big plunge-marriage!! haha).... I also race cars, and moving around a lot wouldn't help me in that dept. I want a career that is close to home, I own a nice home here and wouldn't trade it for anything in CA (not that it isn't nice there), I've lived and worked in LA before, and having bars on every door and window of my home there was a real eye opener. I felt safe, 'till helicopters above me had their search lights trained on a criminal just a few doors down from my home.

Living in Toronto, or Canada for that matter is about the same $$ as LA. A typical home in my area sells for over $500K, taxes are high here, auto insurance is insane, you name it.... but whatever, I love Toronto, and I don't mind making $40K Cnd vs travelling and not having a place to call home.

Thanks for all the great advice, my full time job at the moment is to send out resumes ;)

Cheers

Robert

I hear you! Other resources I'm using right now are:

and a whole slew of resume and job newsgroups. I post my resume there every few weeks or so and have found GTA+ job listings. Good Luck!