“I had a client who went to a high school outside Canada. It was an international high school and his parents paid a lot of money for it. He then went to study in one of the universities in Canada. It took him a long time to graduate, and this is what he told me: In high school, we are only asked to write 200 words. When I came here, they asked me to write 1,500 words. How can I do it? “

One time, I was asked to teach Management in this college which is located in a country outside Canada. At the end of the semester, we had an open book exam.

On the day of the exam, we sat students apart from each other. But shortly after the exam, the students starting exchanging papers and talking to each other. I tried to stop them, and it got to a point where one student, stood up. Towering over me, he pointed his fingers at me and said: “ This is my friend. I have to help him and I have right to let him copy my answers. What do you want? The other local invigilators immediately came to my assistance. They pulled me aside and told me that I was new and didn’t understand their practice. They allowed students to copy from elementary school on, so this was not an issue.

I’ve many more of such cases, having lived in many countries.

Now, you tell me, should Canada recognize foreign degrees or credentials without some form of assessment or evaluation?

My employer is the engineering regulator for the province of Ontario and part of our job is to assess foreign educated applicants. About half our applicants are foreign educated. Of the ones who apply, about half eventually get licensed.

But although there are hurdles to obtaining a licensure (such as getting the required twelve months of Canadian experience, which is a requirement that’s likely to change or be supplemented) a good proportion of the applicants who possess a non-accredited degree simply didn’t learn enough in university to be considered the equivalent of an accredited Canadian degree holder.

We have a multi-part academic assessment process and some of the problems we see are:

• The “engineering” degree was part of a broader degree program that didn’t focus enough on engineering. You need a certain minimum number of engineering credit hours and these people were well short. This was typical of military schools.
• The school had incredibly lax graduation standards. We would see transcripts where a person would get a degree with an average of less than 50%. That kind of performance in Canada would result in people flunking out (and I’ve seen a Canadian transcript like that - two and done).

If you pass the basis assessment, you have two options - a confirmatory examination program (2 basic engineering exams and 2 discipline specific exams) or an interview.

Now, our exams are tough. We don’t use the American Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, we have dozens of exams on specific topics. If you get 50% we consider that “just fine”, they’re meant to be tough and very practical application specific. However, I’ve seen grades like “18” or “31” (sometimes by practicing engineers who have been disciplined). If you get a “double 70” on the first two exams, we waive the next two - you’re obviously smarter than we are.

As for the interview, although some are marginal, we see about half the applicants have no problem. They can take a real world engineering problem they’ve worked on and explain to two professional engineers what they would have to consider while doing it. That’s our “experience requirements committee” - a panel of two engineers in the field who have been doing these things for 20 years.

But then you have the guys who clearly have no clue:

• This one was from one of our former staff who stayed on to assist. He asked an engineer who claimed to work on refrigeration units what the basic principle of refrigeration was. Even I knew that one and I have no engineering to speak of - “When a compressed gas is uncompressed, it cools down”. This guy didn’t know that.
• There was the guy who did basement underpinning. He was asked how to use the standard tool in the field that measures the compressive strength of concrete. No clue.
• Then there was the guy who claimed on his interview to have performed heat treatment. When he could not answer any questions on the work he performed the examiner, a college professor, got suspicious and checked the standard text on the subject. He found the applicant had lifted the problem from a standard textbook question.

Why does Canada refuse to recognize foreign education degrees or credentials?

It is not Canada that does not recognize credentials when it comes to working in Canada but the provincial industry organisations. For example, there is the classic story of the engineer who has to work as a cab driver, etc.

I work in an engineering firm that specializes in mechanical and electrical building systems for commercial and institutional buildings. I am guessing that about a quarter of the designers who work for us are immigrants. They come from China, Iran, India, Pakistan, the Caribbean and Ireland (off the top of my head). Most, if not all of them were trained at home and had to retrain, at least partially, in Canada. Some of them are still at it.

The retraining was based, in large part, on the codes, standards, and requirements for designing systems in Canada. A simple example is our heating systems. Canadian heating systems are designed for our environment and Canada and each of the provinces have developed codes and practices to ensure that the heating systems works, efficiently and for a long time. In Canada, they are, truly, a life safety system. Someone trained in the Caribbean or India would not be trained in our codes and practices. In their career in a tropical based engineer, they might never design a heating system but it is fundamental in the life of a Canadian engineer.

For a Canadian employer, judging a Canadian trained engineer’s education is pretty easy. Schools that produce engineers are certified and work hard to maintain that certification. But a graduate engineer just out of school (even a Canadian one) is an Engineer in Training (EIT). They will spend a minimum of four years qualifying to become a professional engineer. The provincial professional engineering associations and only them assess when an engineer is allowed to work in their jurisdiction. Someone who is qualified in Alberta may not be allowed to work in Ontario, for example, without qualifying with the Ontario professional engineering association (whatever it is called).

In Alberta, the group that certifies that an engineer is qualified to work is the APEGA - The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. It is their responsibility and they take that very seriously.

Thanks for the A2A.

Engineering - any (Registered)

Chartered Professional accountant (Registered)

Lawyer - who have passed the Bar exam in his/her province

RN, Registered Professional Nurse, registered

Pharmacist, registered

Veterinarian, registered

Teacher, registered with a Teacher’s diploma

Plumber, with a certificate

Electrician, with a certificate

Elevator repair person, certified (Highest paid non-academic profession in the land)

Crane operator, licenced

Air traffic controller, licenced

Airline pilot, for a big airline

River or harbour Pilot, certified

Author, recognized

Pop musician, loved

I can go on. Joking aside. Every single job that pays well and offer a good quality of life requires long studies and hard to pass qualifications.

The one I didn’t mention is Physician, being a doctor - it is just too hard to become one, Canadian or not.

For international professionals seeking jobs in Canada, networking proves most effective. Start by obtaining Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) and joining professional associations in your field.

LinkedIn is an important outlet so try and connect with professionals in target companies and participate in industry discussions. Also consider pursuing Canadian certifications or short courses to show your familiarity with local standards. Job search success often comes through referrals, so attending industry events and joining professional immigrant networks can be game-changing.

Many find initial success through their university's alumni network or even by starting with smaller companies in their field

Like everybody else that wants to move here. FOLLOW the process. A good place to start is here Immigrate to Canada .

Your application will be evaluated based on age, education and experience (nice that you have a US masters degree … Not that great a feature), language skills and you financial status. The expectation is that you have

in the bank. Unencumbered.

If you have NEVER been to Canada I would strongly urge you to come and visit first. Visit during winter (January / February) just so you can experience cold.

Living in Canada is not cheap. Taxes are high but basic services are good.

You may have difficulties finding a job in your field and find yourself having to work to support yourself and or you family.

Don’t get me wrong. Canada is a GREAT place !! I moved 28 years ago and could not be happier.

Depends on what profession you want to be in.

Canada is a country that loves official formal professional certifications/designations in everything. And its a country of degrees...the more education the better. I think we have the highest level of degree graduates per capita in the world (or at least in the top three).

I work for a municipality and find it sad that so many workers don't get hired internally because they don't have the formal education requirements. They could do a great job but without the 'papers' they never seem to get ahead. HR departments love workers who do night school outside of their job to prove that that they want to move higher up in the organization. Our current CAO/City Manager started as a garbage man and through night school and professional accreditation, worked his way to the top in about less than a decade. Nice to know that it is possible.

My advice to you is to work for a municipality like me. So many workers are retiring and many are actively looking for workers. But remember that education is key to getting ahead anywhere. Knowledge is power!

I do it a lot when posting on Quora.

If the answer I give is a helpful one, I add my qualifications.

These are PhD(Chem) PhD(Chem eng) C.Sci MRACI C.Chem MRSC. These mean I have two PhD’s (because I am stupid), I am a chartered Scientist, A member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, From which I am a Chartered Chemist, A chartered chemist by the MRACI and I am member in long standing of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and also a chartered chemist by them too but I thought two C.Chem is a bit redundant as I am C.Sci anyway from the UK.

If I give a sarcastic or rather acidic answer I tend to used use a different one which is

Lives in Concordia Station (2017–present)

Because its either a joke or I am pissed of with being asked the same dumb question time and time again, or I use it if someone is trying to wind me up

And recently, as I have been answering questions outside my field I use this one

Studied at NVQ (not very qualified out side Chemistry)

Which I hope conveys the sentiment that it is my personal opinion and could well be wrong.

To me it helps to convey that my answer may be from my direct experience, I an having a go or its just my two penny worth. Its the same when I am trying to give papers or advice. To have credentials is important because you can judge if the info you get is real or bullshit. If you wanted a car servicing you would go to a qualified mechanic, coming to me would not end well! I tinker with engines but changing the timing belt is as far as I go and that’s with a manual. However if you wanted the ring opening of Aziridine by carbamic acid and the subsequent decomposition of the amino-urethane to the polyamide You would come to me because I discovered that reaction (by accident I will be honest I was doing something else).

So hopefully I have told you what I believe, but from the credential at the top you will see I cannot speak for others in general as I am venturing into a field ware I don’t have much background. See how the credentials work?

First you immigrate, then you think about work.

Canada accepts immigrants that are young and well educated. I you are, you have a good chance.

All immigrants, from anywhere in the world, have to start on this page:

Do you want to come to Canada, or extend your stay?

It costs about CAD 2,000 for a visa and each immigrant must have CAD 12,300 of their onw money, more for a family, when they get their visa.

Be patient, it takes from one to five YEARS to process a visa.

Don’t waste your time or energies looking for work. That is just not a way to get to Canada. Neither can any agent or lawyer help you. Just use your computer and the website here.

Good luck.

Not if it's an accredited degree.

And, if you get into one, you will be fortunate and blessed. Should you rethink that, here are some others I can recommend.

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First of all, learn to do your own research.

If you are Canadian, pick a well-known university like UBC, U of T or McGill (to name just three; there are many, many more across Canada) that has a high number of international students.

If you are foreign, ask at your own high school or university guidance office for their recommendations.

Look at the backgrounds of LinkedIn members in your field. Look at what they studied, where they studied, and how many languages they speak. Working overseas isn’t going happen if you can’t speak the local language.

Pick an area of study/degree program that is not only of interest to you and that you’ll do well in, but also useful or in demand overseas. Only you can decide that.

Personal experience: I got my degree from McGill before the Internet existed. Overseas, nobody cared what I’d studied, just that I’d been to a university they’d actually heard of AND I was from Canada, a country which they had a very high opinion of.

There are IT certificates that are internationally recognised, but there are also those that are issued by those who built certain software that can often be more credible depending on what the certificate is for. For example, ICDL provides certificates on Microsoft office applications, but it makes more sense to pick Microsoft’s certificates over those by ICDL because it's far more credible to do those by Microsoft.

The certificates by the following bodies are often recognised internationally:

• Microsoft
• Oracle
• CISCO
• Python Institute
• CompTIA
• Apple
• CISSP
• Citrix
• Certified Ethical Hacker
• Adobe
• Certain Google certificates
• Amazon Web Services
• ITIL
• Tableau

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