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Just going to give you a bit of a heads up on Canadian employers. When you ask them when you can eepxct to find out, typically they don't contact you on time. This isn't to say that they're lying to you. There's a lot of hustle and bustle going on and quite a lot of times decisions don't get made when they're eepxcted to be made. I know this from experience, quite a bit of it. Take my current employer. It was 2 months after my interview that I found out I got the job (they told me I'd know in a week). My current position with my employer, it was a 6 month hiring process and again they'd told me it should be 2 weeks for a decision to be made. Now, I'll also let you in on something else having done some hiring at my place of employment. Typically when an employer needs more than one person to fill a position, they let everyone know around the same time once they've made their list of those they wish to hire. Here we need to rank everyone, figure out who we want to hire, get upper management to approve the cost to hire and then send it off to our Human Resources Dept to sign off and get the paperwork ready. I imagine lots of other places do as well. We tell our applicants 2 weeks typically, when in reality it is longer. We've got our minds made up once everyone has been interviewed, but it's waiting for that financial approval from upper management and the paperwork to be prepared that takes a long time. Sadly upper management and HR departments can drag their feet a little.So, don't get down on the time they take to call you. Sometimes longer is better.Another tip. When interviewing for a place sometimes there's such thing as being too dressed up and not dressed up enough. The latter being obvious. What I mean by being too dressed up is, when interviewing for a chain or contact center (such as McDonalds, Best Buy, register.com, etc ) you don't want to wear a suit. A Nice Golf/Polo shirt and some Khakis will do. Over dressing can cause the interviewer to believe that you may have unreasonable eepxctations with regards to what they're willing to pay. This is an instant turn off. Wear the suit if you're interviewing for an office job, or if you're going to be selling suits. If you're going to be getting dirty or going to be a faceless person on a phone, business casual is perfect.One other thing you may wish to keep in mind is freelance work. Your photographs are pretty impressive. You may wish to try your hand at stock photography, where you take a photo and license its use to multiple people. There are websites out there that can help with this. If you've got any other skills that can be sold/rented out you may be able to make enough money to be reasonably happy. However, the life of the freelancer is not an easy one to live as pay is very erratic. I know, I've done freelance work myself and there can be long periods without pay.Anyways those are my thoughts for now. Hope they help.
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Priyanka
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