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You are probably thinking that Canada would be a great place to live, work, and possibly even start a family. 

However, making the decision to immigrate to a new country is a difficult decision, especially if you are not sure whether you will be able to find a job.

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You did a Bad Bad thing…in your interview for a Job in Canada

Not in a Chris Isaak kind of way, at least we hope not!  No, we are talking about your overseas job interview. 

There is a good chance that you will not get an overseas job if you fail to ask the employer this one essential question.

What is the question?  Simple…

The question is…”Why are you looking for an overseas worker?”

You can ask the question a million different ways.  “Just curious, wondering why you are looking overseas?” or “was wondering what it is about international workers that is appealing to you?”  Of course, you are not going to ask it in an antagonistic or forceful manner.  Instead you are going to ask it with a sense of real curiosity because knowing the employer’s true interest, in other words the ‘why’ they are speaking to you in the first place, is the key to unlocking a job as an international candidate. 

Step back and think about your unique situation for a minute.  An overseas employer’s first choice to fill a position is always going to be a local candidate.  Hiring someone local is fast, cheap, more certain and does not leave the employer open to criticism.   If an employer is looking for an international candidate it means that a major interest of the employer has to be met in a way that surpasses the temptation to hire a local worker.  Some overseas candidates make the mistake of thinking that an employer is talking to them because they have no other options.  It is foolish to think this way.  The employer always has the option of doing nothing.  They can pay existing workers overtime to cover shifts, force management to pick up extra duties, or hire consultants to temporarily fill the gaps. 

So, where do you start?  You know what the employer wants.  They want an international worker.  In negotiation jargon this ‘what’ is called a position.  Next you need to be an expert in information gathering with respect to the ‘why’ an employer wants to hire an overseas worker.  This is the employer’s interest.  Interests are critical.  Interests are what allow you to ‘expand the pie’ as they say in North America.  Interests are what you need to uncover in order to offer creative solutions to the employer’s unique needs and get a job overseas.

Here is an interesting story  that should help motivate you to ask the ‘why’ question.   At Uniivaa, we are currently working with a Canadian roofing company looking to hire overseas roofers.  This employer was interviewing an overseas roofing candidate with very little experience.  The employer liked this candidate and decided to give him an interview.  However, the employer was also pessimistic about hiring this inexperienced overseas candidate since he really preferred someone with numerous years of experience. 

As you may have predicted the interview did not begin well.  The employer told the inexperienced candidate what he wanted.  The employer wanted a roofer with a lot of experience.  But this is where the story becomes interesting.  Instead of trying to convince the employer that experience was not that important, that he was a quick learner and hard worker, the inexperienced candidate did something brilliant.

He asked the essential question.  He asked the employer why he wanted someone with experience and why he was looking overseas.   The employer gave him the answer that unlocked the door for the inexperienced candidate.  The employer said he needed not just one roofer but a complete team of five new roofers for the upcoming season.  The employer believed that experienced roofers would learn to work together more quickly as a team of strangers.  Also, the employer was looking to hire overseas because he thought it would be extremely expensive to hire this team of five experienced roofers locally.

Armed with the knowledge of why the employer wanted experience, the inexperienced candidate came up with a creative solution.  The employer’s interest was not experience but rather a functioning team of roofers.  The inexperienced candidate mentioned to the employer that he was working with a great team of roofers who all wanted to come to Canada and that he could arrange for the entire team to be interviewed at the same time.  He also proposed that if the employer hired his team all at the same time that his team would share travel costs.  This would reduce the financial requirement and risk to the employer. 

The inexperienced candidate created a win-win solution based on asking the essential question and discovering the employer’s true interests.  Did you ask the why question in your last overseas job interview?  Were you offered the overseas job? 

If not, you did a bad bad thing…

 

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