本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛I never did any contractors. And I will never treat $40/hour contracor = 80K/year permanent.
There's no need to reveal any details. I just want to tell you that 80-90K in toronto is not that rare.
Job market has its own game rules. Sometime, you cannot find a 40-50K job, but you can get a 80-90K. In other words, if you cannot get this 80-90K job, even you asked for 40-50K, they will not give you the offer either. The key point is to show the value, better to be some unique and outstanding value.
Price matters only at followin situations:
1) The position is labelled as 80-100K, you only asked for 80K will get more chances than the person asked for 100K unless that person showed outstanding virtues.
2) If you only asked 60K for an 80K-job, it will make things worse.
3) If you asked for more than 100K (the uplimit of the position), it is not good either.
I'm currently recuiting people and have 2 interviews this week. I browsed the monster.com during these days. I learned quite a lot when reading people's resumes. This time I step in employer's shoes. It's a good experience for me because I will have more chances to stay in monster.com as employee.
The point of this discussion is to recognize toronto's values while comparing with cities in USA.
Toronto can give us almost the same life style and almost everything USA can offer. The major reason that people (including myself) moving to USA is for more money. (maybe some are for weather). We thought USA can offer more salary or at least more money left after tax and necessary expense (such as rental, food and car). Or someone might temporarily earn less in US, but he wish to earn much more in the long run.
Both are reasonable initiatives. So I left one year ago. I got almost everything as planned. But after left Toronto, I realized that I have also lost some important values of my life. The compensations are just a few more dollors and a hope.
I wish to offer my reviews to people in the forum for them to think over.
I noticed an interesting things in the forum:
People doing well in toronto usually keep silent and people doing bad in USA also keep silent. So the major voices are from ....更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
There's no need to reveal any details. I just want to tell you that 80-90K in toronto is not that rare.
Job market has its own game rules. Sometime, you cannot find a 40-50K job, but you can get a 80-90K. In other words, if you cannot get this 80-90K job, even you asked for 40-50K, they will not give you the offer either. The key point is to show the value, better to be some unique and outstanding value.
Price matters only at followin situations:
1) The position is labelled as 80-100K, you only asked for 80K will get more chances than the person asked for 100K unless that person showed outstanding virtues.
2) If you only asked 60K for an 80K-job, it will make things worse.
3) If you asked for more than 100K (the uplimit of the position), it is not good either.
I'm currently recuiting people and have 2 interviews this week. I browsed the monster.com during these days. I learned quite a lot when reading people's resumes. This time I step in employer's shoes. It's a good experience for me because I will have more chances to stay in monster.com as employee.
The point of this discussion is to recognize toronto's values while comparing with cities in USA.
Toronto can give us almost the same life style and almost everything USA can offer. The major reason that people (including myself) moving to USA is for more money. (maybe some are for weather). We thought USA can offer more salary or at least more money left after tax and necessary expense (such as rental, food and car). Or someone might temporarily earn less in US, but he wish to earn much more in the long run.
Both are reasonable initiatives. So I left one year ago. I got almost everything as planned. But after left Toronto, I realized that I have also lost some important values of my life. The compensations are just a few more dollors and a hope.
I wish to offer my reviews to people in the forum for them to think over.
I noticed an interesting things in the forum:
People doing well in toronto usually keep silent and people doing bad in USA also keep silent. So the major voices are from ....更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net