Recently studies show that in-born people do better, and are likely finding a job. I strongly agree with these studies. There are hundreds of barriers when it comes to secure an employment as a new immigrant. As for myself I can tell that, there is a long way ahead of me before finding a respectable and fairly remunerate job. Firstly, it doesn’t matter how highly skilled immigrant you are, the barriers to go through still there. What are the barriers or challenges in your “new country”? Learn the official language, understand the work system, and accept the culture, these are the main challenges for myself as a newly immigrant.
If we speak about the Canadian immigration system, the system opens up its doors to the best-qualified and high skilled workers. It is a fact that I qualified and filled out their request but also to know that I am still struggling to find a job. As I mentioned before one of my main challenges as a new immigrant is to learn and master the official language, this is one is the most difficult ones for me because I am coming from a country in which my mother language is no English but Spanish. Learning the language may take you some time and this become a disadvantage compare with the in-born people who doesn’t need it. This time that I’ve been spending learning the language is the time that normal in-born person is achieving in work experience.
Then, understand the work system. Even though that I hold a degree in Business and think that this could be enough to have a job in here, this is not true at all. The immigration system thinks that bringing qualified and high skilled workers will improve the economic system. But, having a big amount of these immigrants makes the competition harder, not only with