Starting from July 19th, 2010 Slovenian citizens will be able to come to Canada to do an internship or working holiday. Few specific details on requirements and visa structure have been released yet, but it’s expected that the rules will be similar to those for Latvian participants. Here are those rules via our website:
Canada’s visas for Latvian citizens have recently changed – they are no longer operated under the Youth Mobility Program. That program has been renamed and is now the International Experience Canada (IEC) program. There are three types of IEC visas open to Latvian citizens:
Professional Development
This is a 12 month visa, open to Latvian citizens between the ages of 18 and 35. The purpose of it is to provide young professionals with the opportunity for gaining additional work experience in Canada. Before you can apply for your visa, you must have a job offer from a Canadian company for a position in your field. This job must be paid. Due to provincial labour regulations, VancouverInternships cannot accept Professional Development visa applicants into one of our programs.
Internship
This is a 12 month visa, open to Latvian citizens between the ages of 18 and 35. You must be a full-time student at a post secondary institution in order to apply for this visa. The purpose of it is to provide students with the opportunity for gaining a practical education in Canada and complete practicum requirements for their university courses in Latvia. Before you can apply for your visa, you must have an internship offer from a Canadian company for a position in your field. VancouverInternships can help you obtain an internship offer through both our Paid Internship Program, and our Student Internship Program.
Working Holiday
This is a 12 month visa, open to any Latvian citizens between the ages of 18 and 35. The purpose of it is to provide young Latvian people with the means to work and travel across Canada. No job offer is required, and you may work with any employer or employers you choose. Participants in this program may be interested in Vancouver Internships’ Working Holiday Program.
In addition, Latvian citizens who don’t meet any of the above criteria or who are interested in combining their internship with a period of English language studies may also qualify for a work and study visa. Click here to learn more about work and study visas.
Click here to visit the Canadian visa office and download forms and learn about fees.
Learn more about popular Vancouver Internships programs for Latvian citizens: Student Internship, Paid Internship
Notice that the key requirement for obtaining an internship visa is getting an internship offer from a Canadian employer. This is what we at Vancouver Internships can help you with. Through our student internship program, our staff can find an internship placement for you in your field of work, we can assist you with documents to apply for your visa, and we will help orient you to the city once you arrive.
These services are offered through our Student Internship Program. You can read more about that here.
We would like to encourage Slovenians to use this visa and to come to Canada. In order to do so we are offering a special price for our internship placement services. Rather than the $1,200 listed on our site, we are offering effective immediately a discounted price of €650 for any Slovenian citizen coming to Canada under the International Exchange Canada visa scheme. The special price will last until the end of October.
For more information on internships, please contact us. To apply, please click here (be sure to mention this blog post in order to receive the special price).
From our Website – a new page we just put up for our Fall 2010 programs:
Guaranteed Internship Placement in Vancouver
Year-round internship placement services including: resume writing assistance, interview preparation, and guaranteed internship placement from Canada’s Internship Experts.
Vancouver Internships are specialists in internship, and co-op placements. Since our founding in 2008, we have placed hundreds of students at internships and co-ops in and around Vancouver. Students have completed internships in fields as diverse as art gallery administration, private banking, and electrical engineering.
Our Student Internship Program is now open for Fall 2010 applications. If you are a student at a Canadian university or college, and have a GPA of at least 3.0, then there are dozens of different internships open to you here in Vancouver.
Guaranteed Internship Placements
Vancouver Internships has a 99% success rate in placing interns. We achieve this success rate by being choosy about the students we accept. However, once we do accept you, rest assured that you will have an internship in your field, by your start date, or you will receive a 100% refund.
Internship Fields
You can intern in any field related to your studies, provided that you meet basic program requirements. Some of those fields include:
- Accounting and Bookkeeping
- Architecture
- Law
- Finance (investments)
- Events Management
- Web Design
- Network and Systems Administration
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Industrial Design
- Media
- Marketing
- Hotel Management
- Public Relations
- Policy Analysis
- and many more
Your internship options can be discussed in more detail when you meet with your Vancouver Internships advisor.
Accommodation
The vast majority of students participating in an internship program in Vancouver, choose to find their own accommodation. However, if you do need temporary accommodation during your internship, we have several hostel and student hotel accommodation options for you, starting at $800 per month. Please ask your Vancouver Internships advisor for more information.
Requirements
To participate in an internship, you must meet all of the following requirements:
- Currently enrolled in a Canadian college or university
- Be eligible to work in Canada (while internships are unpaid, SIN cards are required)
- Have completed your first semester of course work
- Maintain a 3.0 GPA
NB: Some internship fields may have specific requirements in addition to the above.
Cost
Participation in the student internship program costs $800 (HST Included). This fee includes guaranteed internship placement, resume writing, interview preparation, and ongoing monitoring and support while you are in Vancouver. NB: This fee does not include accommodation or transportation.
If you are accepted into the program, you will be asked to pay a deposit of $300 to confirm your enrolment. Once your internship interview is arranged, your remaining fees become due. Payment can be made online by Pay Pal, credit card or Interac email transfer, or through the mail, by cheque.
Enrollment Procedure
To enroll in the Student Internship program for Fall 2010, please complete the application form here. After we have received your application form, a Vancouver Internships staff member will evaluate it and determine if you meet all basic requirements. If you meet requirements, we will contact you to schedule a telephone consultation. During this consultation, we will discuss your internship objectives, and assess your ‘placeability’ and answer any questions you may have.
If you are accepted into the program, you will be sent an internship offer letter, describing what internship options are open to you, and listing your program structure (number of weeks you want to intern, and your desired start date). After receiving this and paying your deposit, you will be officially enrolled and will begin resume counseling and your placement process.
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The CWE is our smallest program and it’s not something we focus on too often on the blog. But there are a decent number of students in that program – all coming from the language schools. The schools sometimes call it a co-op or working holiday program, basically – it’s a practical work term placement in the hospitality industry. We have students placed all over the city right now in lots of different positions.
The last few weeks we’ve been asking some of our students on placement to tell us about their jobs and what they do. Here’s some of what they wrote in their reports back to us:
Mitsuo from Japan – Ricky’s Restaurant [ Kitchen helper]
Please describe your daily work duties: I clear and clean the tables. I prepare the knives and forks. I pass the menu. I sweep up the floor and mop the floor.
What is the most interesting part of your work: I can talk with many people in English.
Nika from Taiwan – Starbucks [food prep]
Please describe your daily work duties: Filled up cream and milk, cleaned counter, dumped garbage, kept store clean, helped colleagues whenever they need a help, sampled and displayed products
What kind of training did you receive at your work: watched a video which showed everything we should know about before start working.(like what’s a safe work environment and what’s a good customer service and so on.)
What’s the most interesting part of your work: To see lot’s of people from different country and some special events or performances come with festivals.
Ricardo from Spain – Cafe Crepe [food prep]
Please describe your daily work duties: Prepare the coffes and beverages, help in the cash machine, make pizzas, paninis, salads and other foods that my company sells, at the end of my shift when closing, clean up the store.
What kind of training did you receive at your work: they are teaching me and training me on how to make a good crepe, i have been memorizing the recipies to make them good, people in there is very friendly and kind.
What is the most difficult part of your work: the schedule that i have to follow at work, it changes every week and you never know what to expect, sometimes opening shifts, sometimes closing shifts or even middle day shifts. every week it changes but it is not an inconvinient i just deal with it.
What is the most interesting part of your work: practice my English, improve it everyday at work, and feel the commitment of working in an important company in a foreign country.
Alejandra from Mexico – Starbucks [barista]
Please describe your daily work duties: I have to be a cashier and a barista (make coffees), as well as I have to check everything in the store for example: the products, the milks and clean.
Did you meet your goals for your work term in Canada: I got goals because first when I started work there I didn’t know anything about the job but little by little I learn and know I’m really happy because I know everything and I have a really with experience.
What was the most interesting part of your work: The experience I learned many thing in that job, also the relation with people and communication with them and my partners in the job.
What was your relationship like with your co-workers: Is very good they are so friendly with me always we are talking about something I never had a problem with them, and they helped when I had some problem or doubt.
