Am on the job hunt.

[camwyn]

Willing to move anywhere in the US that has a proper winter (by which I mean someone from Florida could not spend the entirety of December, January, and February in that area without screaming 'AIEEE!' and falling over due to unlooked-for ice at least once). Have got resume, which was just submitted to monster.com. Have got master's in Management Information Systems.

Also willing to work in Canada. More than happy to do so for cheap as long as I can get a place to live and don't have to speak French just yet. Still got to buy Pimsleur course for that.

Have GOT to get out of my parents' house.

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

You probably don't NEED to learn French unless you're going to move to Quebec. In which case, you'll specifically want to learn Quebeçois rather than Parisian French.

Pour apprendre français, je trouve les livres et cassettes/disques-compact de Berlitz song très bien.

[camwyn]

Well, if it were a government job theremight be some reading requirement, is the only thing I can think of. Also, I should probably learn some French anyway, since that would independently put me over the total needed to get a skilled worker visa for Canada (as it stands I have 73 out of 100 points; you need 75 to get the visa, and from what i can see the remaining two points can be made up by either pre-arranging a job or by learning the basics of written and spoken French).

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Ahh.

If you don't know any at all, I really, REALLY recommend the Berlitz Basic French as a starting point.

[camwyn]

I took Italian in high school. I can manage a little comprehension of written French as a consequence. Spoken? Oy.

Berlitz has a school near me; they didn't have Mandarin Chinese when I looked, but if they don't have French group classes I will beat them about the head and shoulders with a stick...

bilingualism in Canadian job market ...

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

Depends on the government. Federal government often has bilingual requirements. Provincial governments (other than Quebec of course), not as often (depends on where you are - anything out of Ottawa in either case tends to be bilingual just because it's Ottawa *L*). And of course, private sector - unless in Quebec - usually doesn't care too much. Not even the universities, as long as they're in the english speaking provinces!

I've worked for the Ontario provincial government in the past and trust me, what little of my highschool french remains does not even come close to qualifying me as bilingual *L*

[yarrick.livejournal.com]

Minnesota is likely as close to a Canadian winter as you can get, with the exception of maybe Alaska. Were known for our outdoor activites in both the winter and summer, most of which revolve around both water and ice. Heh.

The Job market around the Twin Cities is starting to get a little better... but anywheres else in the state it really SUCKS. Sales and commerce jobs in the cities can pay well and are fairly common, and it is a good place to start a small business, which I plan to do. IT market here- forget it. You have a better chance of winning a multi-millon dollar lottery than getting an IT job here. I've tried for 5 years and enough is enough....

But Minnesota can be a beautiful place to live in if you can handle the winters. The people for the most part are friendly, other than some spots in downtown Minneapolis.

[camwyn]

Well, I would be willing to try and adapt to the Minnesota winters; I've survived four Cleveland winters, which I figure is like training wheels on a Harley. But if the IT market's as bad as you say, then thanks for the warning - I'd asked Monster.com to nose around in the Minneapolis area just in case.

[yarrick.livejournal.com]

Really the only place that is PROMISING for the IT market these days is the Southwest and Silicon valley. But I don't want to live in the middle of the desert. No thank you *sigh* Oh well. IT is over-rated anyways. I think I found something that fits my tastes a lot better anyways...

[camwyn]

Oh, I don't want to work for an IT firm. I want to work as an IT person at a company that needs IT skills because it isn't an IT firm. I'd go insane at a technology company (I tried - lasted eighty-five out of ninety days in the trial period- still get twitchy at the thought of helpdesking). But, you know, a good-sized human resources firm or pharmaceutical firm is gonna need SOMEONE to make their computers happy. I could deal with that.