Big cuts to PR & real resume examples

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🏦 The Bank of Canada reduced the rate again, by 0.5% to 3.75%. While it’s good news for those who have a mortgage or loans, some say it’s a sign of a weaker Canadian dollar. Canada’s GDP per capita has declined for 5 straight quarters. (Financial Post)

🧺 Canadian farming industry is planning to automate 1/3 of all agriculture jobs in the next decade. This will impact nearly 100,000 jobs in agriculture. With agriculture providing 7% of Canada’s GDP, this creates a lot of opportunity (CBC)

Opportunity: for agriculture professionals - get ahead of the curve and upskill in Information Systems, AI and Automation. For technology professionals - consider joining an agri-corp or explore Canada’s top agriTech startups.

💳️ Newcomers can access their credit score from their home country. Equifax has launched a new feature letting newcomers port their credit history. The solution will launch with credit information from India. Plans to expand the service for newcomers from Brazil, Argentina, and Chile over the coming months and a future roadmap that includes 18 countries total are in place. (Daily Hive)

🇨🇦 Canada immigration updates

We’ve had a busy week in the immigration department. The public pressure to reduce (or at least control) immigration numbers has finally pushed the government to announce significant policy changes aimed at balancing economic needs with housing and social infrastructure:

🔏 Lower PR Targets: Canada’s 2025-2027 plan reduces permanent resident targets, aiming to ease housing pressures and stabilize population growth. New targets are 395,000 in 2025, 380,000 in 2026 down to 365,000 in 2027.

🧑‍🏭 Focus on trades, healthcare, agriculture & technology: Permanent resident admissions in the economic class, where the biggest shortages are will account for 2/3 of all permits. This is Canada’s way to draw the most qualified professionals in the most critical industries.

🙍 Temporary Resident & Student Visas: Canada aims to reduce the temporary resident population to 5% of the national population by 2026, down from the current 6.5%. Study permits will be reduced by 10% in 2025, limiting the number to around 437,000 from the 2024 target of 485,000. The plan is to maintain this cap into 2026, with work permits also restricted to prioritize certain fields and family members.

🩺 Ontario Medical School Policy: From 2026, Ontario will restrict medical school admissions to Ontario and Canadian residents, with 95% of spots reserved for Ontario locals. This is part of a provincial effort to increase local primary care availability by supporting residents committed to practicing in Ontario​

🇫🇷 Francophone Focus: Targets for Francophone immigration will increase to meet labor demands and support diverse communities. Want to increase your chances? Learn French!

Our take: overall it looks like the government is trying to appeal to the popular requests, rather than thinking through the economic implications of slowing immigration. While curbing immigration will help stabilize real estate prices, and, hopefully, inflation, the shortages in the critical sectors will become even more apparent.

It is a short term solution, which will force businesses to do more with less. This may have even heavier implications on the economy. The counter argument is that this is a first push in forcing Canadian businesses to work smarter and rely less on labour, and more on technology and automation.

What’s your take? Reply to this email and let us know!

❗️Real resume examples

Thank you for all your comments and submissions for resume templates in the last week’s poll.

We’ve retrieved real resume examples from our network and candidates we’ve worked with. The candidates used these resumes to either get offers from Canada’s top firms OR catch recruiter’s attention and land initial interviews.

We’ve anonymized and uploaded these templaets on our website - you can download them here.

Which real resume examples should we upload next? Fill out the poll in this post.

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🍰 Timbits

🚗 A car is stolen every 5 minutes in Canada, and most end up in Africa

🧩 Canadian internet may soon get a little cheaper, thanks to increased competition

⛽️ Ontario is extending gas tax cut until next year

🚓 Don’t be a victim of insurance fraud, get a dash cam 

👟 Converse has a 50% off sales on their classics

🪴 Metro grocery rewards program Moi is expanding to Ontario

🤑 How much an average millenial spends living in Canada

🍰 This week’s read

Atlas of Finance

This new book brought to life by 7 authors, including a finance professor, an illustrator, and a cartographer. Atlas of Finance explores the world of global finance and how money moves around. The illustrations in the book are simply amazing.

Here’s one that explains for the banking system infrastructure works. If you’re interested in working in FinTech or Banking, this book is a great conversation starter to help you stand out during your job interviews!

💼 Jobs Highlights

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📌 Plooto, a Toronto Fintech automating billing and invoicing for SMB, has 5 positions oen in Data, QA and Project management.

📌 Quandri, an insurance AI solution for policy renewals is hiring for Marketing and Customer Success roles.

📌 Financeit, a Toronto-based home renovation lender has multiple roles open in Sales, Operations and Software.

📌 Mave Ai, a Toronto-based startup just raised a new round of funding and is hiring both Sr and Jr Software devs and Marketing.

📌 Amazon, is freshly hiring for over 20 roles across all departments in Toronto.

📌 Lactalis Canada, a Canadian dairy manufacturer is hiring for warehouse, operations and technical jobs

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