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There are more available Canada Jobs for Filipinos in 2009. Caregivers and nurses are not the only jobs that are open in Canada for overseas Filipino workers. Canada needs manual labors and professionals to decrease their shortage of manpower.

The province of British Columbia in Canada is currently employing tens of thousands of construction workers in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics. They also need welders and pipe-fitters. The salary of welders, construction workers and pip-fitters in Canada is higher than in Saudi Arabia.

The province of Alberta, Canada needs professionals for their oil and gas industry. There is still a shortage for more than 30,000 professionals in the field of engineering.

These are only two of the many provinces in Canada who have high demand for Filipino workers. Aside from caregiver, construction workers and engineers, Canada also needs house cleaners, food attendants, butchers and hotel staff.

If you are interested in applying for Canada Jobs for Filipinos, the easiest way to check the job vacancies and the legal recruitment agencies which you can apply to is to go the web site of the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA). In the right column, look for Approved Job Orders underneath the Online Services category. Click Approved Job Orders.

When you reach the new page, click Search Approved Job Orders by Country. From the drop down menu, choose Canada. You will reach the page where you will see all the legal jobs in Canada that you can apply to. You will also find the name of the recruitment agencies.

Remember that there are no placement fees for Canada jobs for Filipinos.

Hundreds of thousands of jobs in South Australis are opening this year for Filipinos. Australian Ambassador to the Philippines announced that Australia prefer Filipinos to fill up their demand for workers in their construction industry because Filipinos are good in English, hardworking, fast-learner and adapts to new culture well.

These are the jobs that Australia is opening for Filipinos:

• Pipe-fitters
• Welders
• Masons
• Electricians
• Plumbers
• Carpenters
• Construction Workers

Those who have certificates from TESDA and years of experience in related work have higher chances at being hired. Make sure that you are dealing with legal recruiters. Check first if they are listed at the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency.

Despite the global financial crisis, Qatar continues to provide jobs for Filipinos. Early this month, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo visited Doha, Qatar and met with Qater royalty Emir Sheikh Hamad Khalifa.

There will be more than 20,000 jobs waiting for Filipinos this year in Qatar. The jobs range from domestic work, to blue colar work to professional work.

These are some of Qatar jobs for January:

• Mechanical Engineer
• Receptionist
• Accountant
• Waitress
• Process Operators
• Electrical Draftsman

If you are interested in Qater jobs, visit the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency to search for more openings and legal recruiters.

Every year there are hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who leave their homeland to work for overseas jobs. Filipinos choose to be separated from their families and work abroad because there is very little opportunity to have work in the Philippines. There may be a lot of job vacancies in the country but Filipinos choose to work abroad because the salary is much bigger.

The monthly salary of a college graduate in the Philippines employed in an office in Makati amounts to one day of salary of a person who works as a waiter or bell hopper in a hotel in the United States. No wonder even engineers and other professionals choose to do manual work abroad than to work in an office in the Philippines. Manual labor is highly priced in other countries.

Construction workers here earn only P4,000 to P8,000 a month while Filipino construction workers in the Middle East earn P30,000 to P80,000. Welders here earn P7,000 to P15,000 while welder deployed to Australia or Canada earn a minimum of P100,000. Housemaids in the Philippines earn P2,000 to P4,000 a month while housemaids in Hongkong earn as much as P30,000 a month.

There is also big differences in the salaries for professionals when they work in the Philippines and when they work overseas. Nurses who work in private hospitals in Manila earn a monthly salary of P7,000 to P15,000. Nurses in the US earn as much as P300,000 a month. Teachers, engineers, managers and computer programmers who get out of the country to work earn hundreds of thousands of pesos compared to P8,000 to P40,000 when they stay in the Philippines.

The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency says that there are still millions of overseas jobs for workers and professionals abroad in the next 4 years despite the global financial crisis. This may be good news for Filipinos who want to provide good life to their families back in the Philippines but if they can find work in the Philippines that will give them security, almost all of them will choose to stay in the Philippines with their families.

Coca-Cola Philippines is currently looking for Operational Excellence Project Associates. This is a project-based work and is open for all graduates of Industrial Engineering with or without experience.

The responsibilities of the Operational Excellence Project Associates are gathering data from sales, warehouse, delivery and haulage operations and prepare a Time and Motion Study with the goal of attaining operational excellence.

The applicants should be willing to travel and work in the different Coca-Cola plants and warehouses in Luzon.

Submit your résumé with a cover letter indicating the job position to philcareers@apac.ko.com.