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Hey everyone, have you ever felt like you’re hitting a brick wall in your job search? 🤔 I’ve been in the tech industry for 9 years, transitioning from web to mobile development, and despite all my efforts, I’m still struggling to land a job after 48 long months. 😔
I’ve applied everywhere, completed courses, worked on projects, and even churned through LeetCode, but nothing seems to be working. It’s disheartening to see years of hard work and experience go unnoticed in the job market. Has anyone else experienced something similar?
I’m looking for some advice and possible solutions to break out of this rut. Sharing my resume for reference: [Resume Link]. Any tips or insights on how to navigate this challenging situation would be greatly appreciated. Let’s help each other out in this tough job market!
Possible Solutions:
– Networking: Reach out to professionals in your field for guidance and potential job opportunities.
– Personal Projects: Showcase your skills through personal projects or contributions to open-source initiatives.
– Skill Development: Keep upgrading your skills by taking up new courses or certifications to stay competitive in the industry.
Let’s support each other and share our knowledge to overcome these hurdles together! 💪 #JobSearch #CareerAdvice
Leave Canada. It is a graveyard for tech workers. If you are from India, go back to India, you will be treated better.
Bro, you’re cooked. Best thing you can do is move on and do something else.
> I have 9 years of experience in web and mobile development
> I quit my last real job (4 years ago) and jumped into learning mobile development.
This two statements seem conflicting.
I’m not surprised that you have an issue in this job market with a 4 year gap, but I have no clue what happened 4 years ago. 4 years ago was one of the best job markets that ever existed for tech, and people were falling into jobs.
Anyways I don’t think anyone can give real advice based on this post. Maybe share your resume, and do a mock interview, but at this point I would expect things to be hard.
It’s tough out there, I’m in a similiar situation in Toronto.. good luck
Canadian HR filters out ppl without the right degree.
HR make exceptions if one is exFang or exBigBank.
Its mostly in the US where they will take risk with bootcamp and non degree ppl.
If you have family in the States and can move there, it may be a better path.
It’ll only get harder because in Canada because of the diploma mills churning out thousand more IT and programmers, so HR wont change policy about requiring a degree in CS or software.
How do you have a valid visa if you haven’t worked in four years?
Pick up some backend? resume is very front end heavy and people tend to go for full stack because they think “front end is easy”. Be more marketable in this shitty market, I’m from Toronto if it’s help to you.
I’m not going to dive into your personal/professional life, others already told you. Ill respond to your resume. Your resume is weak. You basically listed out your work tasks. As a hiring manager, I could care less that a 9 YOE engineer can build a mobile app, that is to be expected. What I want to know is what type of major engineering challenge youve tackled and what are the results of your solution. Recruiters and companies have tons of leverage right now so you need to show achievements and quantifiable impact to even be status quo. If a company only wants human robots to do x, they can easily find those off shore for fraction of what you cost in Canada. It’s not about being a good engineer, its about being aware of what you are doing as an engineer and how you are affecting the team, the product and the company.
48 months ago was the start of the strongest job market in history of the tech industry. If you continuously looked for work for two years starting in July 2020 and couldn’t land anything, unfortunately that means you are an extremely weak candidate. You should either drastically change something (get a degree, move to the US, etc.) or look at another field.
Your resume is very weak, and you don’t even post the locations of your jobs (unless you anonymized by fully removing them) which imo looks like you’re trying to hide something.
There’s very little jobs in Canada. Canadian companies also do not value foreign work in experiences from non Western countries.
If you are able to secure an opportunity in your home country I encourage you to explore that.
Where are you from?
How have you survived in another country with no employment? Makes no sense. Your entire profile makes no sense and honestly seems like a shitty LARP.
If you don’t have a Canadian CS degree or Canadian work experience, it will be difficult for you to get a job compared to those who do.
You also haven’t been in the workforce for 4 years, which is a significant gap. Companies prefer candidates with recent experience.
48 months?? Come on man. At some point you need accept that it’s over for you. It’s time to try a different field.
Looking at OP post history their YOE claim is very questionable.
Here they are saying they did no paid work since moving 4 years ago. Elsewhere they said they had 6 YOE when they moved.
So if they are counting all this time they’ve spent in Canada doing no/unpaid work as experience who knows what they are counting for the other 6 years.
Do you have a portfolio where we can check out your projects or a resume?
Would you mind posting your resume? I’m curious how come it happens.
Go do CS masters at a school in Canadia and start over. I did a masters and got paid to do RA and TA. Got a coop and that gave me recent and relevant experience. Would set you behind a few more years tho….
Echoing most of what has already been said here
Canadian market likes degrees in a related field
Freelance work can be frowned upon, especially the likes of Upwork etc.
Such a significant gap in work history is a red flag, especially coming out of covid when the market was booming.
Yes, you’re now having trouble finding freelance work because the market has shifted, and a lot of what you do has been offshored to cheap 3rd world freelancers.
Tips.
Ensure your github is up to date with *quality*, finished projects.
Make sure your resume clearly targets the type of work your looking for. Mixing and mashing ios with engineering or anything else will not present well.
Look to apply to MSP or consulting companies, while many offshore there are some that will still keep a presence in CAN/US.
-Tech Recruiter
How many job applications have you done so far? Less than 300 apps don’t mean much if you don’t have a well known company on your work history. I do job applications for people and number of interviews people who have a known company on their resume get compared to those who don’t is staggering. So maybe keep applying and the numbers’ game might work in your favour.