Canada’s Tech Workers Shortage A Boon For Immigrants

Canada employment portal, Indeed, reported that start-ups in some of Canada’s largest technology markets – Toronto, Vancouver Montreal and Ottawa – are struggling to grow because they cannot find candidates with the right skill sets. Positions such as Computer Vision Testers, Penetration Testers and Ruby on Rails Developers take the longest to fill and employers are getting desperate.

As estimates suggest the Canadian technology industry will be short by more than 200,000 workers by 2021. The Canadian government is targeting its immigration policy at making it easy to hire important technology workers from abroad. The government’s Global Talent Stream enables candidates in the hardest to fill technology occupations to have their visas and work permits processed in only two weeks.

Canada’s Hardest to Fill Technology Vacancies

Source: Indeed

Jobs Covered by The Global Talent Stream

For Category B of the Global Talent Stream, employers must hire highly-skilled foreign workers to fill positions in occupations found on the following list:

Individuals who succeed in obtaining temporary resident permits under the Global Talent Stream can make the transition to permanent residence in six months via the Express Entry system.

As part of its commitment to attract and retain technology skilled workers Canada also has a path for Internation students to become Canadian permanent residents. See International Students – Path to Citizenship.