Hints and Tips on moving to and life in Montréal
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Jun 22nd, 2009
Are you about to finish your studies and wondering where you’d like to begin your career? Many students have contacted Move to Montréal to enquire as to whether Montréal would be a great place to live and work.
Clearly, with its universities and culture, Montréal has an awful lot of offer young people on the professional [...]
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Jun 17th, 2009
Networking is the new buzzword in job seeking and new technologies are making it easier to network than ever before.
But let’s be clear – building a network with the sole goal of finding a job will not work. Moreover, it’s not honest and not a good way to start your life in Montréal.
Building a network [...]
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Jun 15th, 2009
Once you have your resumé you need to distribute it to people who could be interested in you. The no brainer part of this is using the internet job sites such as Jobboom, workopolis and monster. You post your resumé on these sites and subscribe to job agents that will send you interesting jobs.
However, to [...]
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Jun 10th, 2009
Finding a job in Montréal can take work, in fact it can be considered to be a full time job in itself! The great news is that this is true almost everywhere.
When looking for work, the first thing to fully understand is what you are good at and what your value is for employers. What [...]
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Jun 8th, 2009
Looking for a job can be one of the most stressful and worrying things that one has to do. Our standard of living, security, how we’re perceived by others and our self-respect are intimately tied up with the work that we do.
Add to this a move to a new city or a new country and [...]
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Nov 18th, 2008
If you’re looking to buy or sell a house on the South-Shore of Montréal, especially in the La Prairie, Brossard or Candiac areas it’s worth getting in touch with Claire Savard. She really helped us out and was highly professional: she listened carefully to what we needed, learnt what we liked and disliked as we [...]
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Aug 26th, 2008
We have nothing but praise for the insurance broker who found us car insurance. It’s harder to get insurance in Québec without a Québec drivers licence. Most companies won’t consider you. So it was a job well done by our broker who was personally recommended by a friend in Belgium.
If you’re looking for car or [...]
Today we’ve been shopping. We started out taking the métro to McGill to pick up the hire car. A Hyundai Sonata: fab car, easy to drive, but it’s been smoked in and is thus a bit smelly.
As we were downtown, we had a quick wonder down Rue Saint Catherine, Montréal’s main shopping street. It feels [...]