Hi, I am international educated nurse, got RPN license in July 2016.
Now I have started searching RPN job from healthforce Ontario "OrIENtation ". This[COLOR=#000000] is designed to support Internationally-Educated Nurses newly registered in Ontario in transitioning to practice in an Ontario health care setting and provide them with a full-time job opportunity. I applied the jobs from website, but I can not have confidence to get a work..... Even I have 7 years experience working at hospital in my country, I guess they do not consider it as Nursing career in Canada.
I also looked through the website "indeed" and I noticed most of the job position were applied over 100 people.
I am feeling super negative...
Do you know any good agency which give me opportunity to work?? Someone advised me that you can register at agency and work until you find a job. Or, do you know how IEN find a job?
It seems to me that tiina was saying she was discriminated against by the manager who told tiina to take English classes. There is no legitimate employment requirement to speak English without a foreign accent, the manager sounds ignorant and uneducated about employment and human rights laws.
I did not mean to focus too much on my personal experience. Although everybody including the Human Rights officer told me to file a complaint against this small company, large hospitals may not be as explicit as this one. Otherwise they will be sued.
My point is, it could be "possible" there is a favortism for non-minority or non-visible minority or no-accent English-speaker when the job market lead is on the hiring side. It is just a speculation. I was triggered to think about this possibility after my personal experience.
I would like to hope it was just my single experience and no other companies treat applicants this way.
@tiina I believe the manager's advice to take an English course was an unusual occurrence, as most managers know enough about human rights laws that they do not openly violate them and risk lawsuits.
In Ontario, the nursing job market has been an employer's market for several years and during an employer's market there is more potential for favoritism, cronyism and nepotism, than when it is an employee's market. Favoritism isn't necessarily related to whether an applicant is a minority or not, it is usually related to who an applicant knows, if an applicant knows an employee and that employee refers them to their manager, they have a much batter chance than an applicant who does not know anyone in the workplace. When applicants are looking for work in a tough job market, they should consider ways to network with other nurses by joining professional groups or volunteering or taking a course.
dishes, BSN, RN
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It seems to me that tiina was saying she was discriminated against by the manager who told tiina to take English classes. There is no legitimate employment requirement to speak English without a foreign accent, the manager sounds ignorant and uneducated about employment and human rights laws.