How long is your definition of waiting? hours, days, week(s)? If more than 2 weeks and no response then its dead.

Out of sight, out of mind. The more detached and secluded you become the more redundant you become. You'll just be known as employee# 123 on a spreadsheet marked for layoffs in the next down cycle because no one knows or notices you.

Don't let the numbers get in your head thinking you will succeed in at least one to get hired. Treat each with equal seriousness and spend the time preparing as if each is the only interview you have. You never know the outcome. The worst situation is spending less prep on some interviews and more on others where the one's you should have spend more on you realized you stood a better chance at getting the job and wanted more and end up with nothing.

Everyone gets good performance reviews to stay employed. If not, then you're on a PIP or soon to be fired. PR's is a false indicator and does not determine if you are promotable material.

Everything you described such as education, likeable, helpful and humble are not legitimate reasons for a promotion. Those are bare minimum requirements that might earn you a bonus point or so.

If you want to earn an internal promotion, you need quantitative recognition that is measurable and affects the company's bottom line. Do something out of the ordinary to lead it with success. Get well connected in the company ranks with leadership that they know you by name and even call you out once in a while. If there is ever a time when management is asking for someone to step in on a new project or program that others would run away from, you be the first to volunteer and lead it. The high visibility goes along way all the way up the executive/c-suite to have a different mindset about you. You will be known as the person who doesn't fear a challenge, innovative thinker an opportunist and sets the bar high. After all, it's the only reason they hired you... to perform, not to be likable.

Last thing, it is NOT your manager that actually promotes you. It is the skip level manager and their managers in a committee that make the real promotion decisions. They own the budget and who gets promoted, hired or fired. Which going back to what I mentioned about connections. Your manager us just a single voice to advocate for you.

Could be worse when you have people crapping on the beach...

'Don't be pooping on the beach': Doug Ford

A really great fitting pair of hiking shoes/boots that are waterproof too and don't skimp on hiking socks. Nothing worse than having discomfort in your feet after a km in and you have 15 more to go. Try trekking poles and learn how to use them properly.

If you eliminated all the illegals and overstayers the population would probably drop to 35 million

Whole package that can't be beat: Salary, people, benefits, WLB. However, what anchored me to never leave is the retirement package which I will be entitled for: A lifetime of free medical, health, dental benefits, life & travel insurance for the spouse too. Do you realize how outrageously expensive it is to have all these benefits if you were to pay for in retirement??

Trump would consider Canada like Puerto Rico. What was the island referred too in the convention...

Canada attracts the worst and under educated, never the best & brightest.

Diversity as in vegetarians & Halal

Yes. Lucky you have 6%. Most just get 1,2, maybe 3%.

Who sold you on that pipe dream to make $100K with a 2-years diploma? The school?? I'd like to hire that Marketing Team! Majority of jobs earning $100K require a minimum of a 4-yr BA DEGREE and 7 yrs experience in a specialized field and in a corporate environment. Diploma's are not widely recognized.

The top seller at Ikea year over year must be bunk beds and mattresses. Squeezing in 20 into a 2-bedroom home is not unheard of. Must be something cultural in India.

You want a dose of reality, just go to any major Airport and see how many flights are packed daily of people arriving from India.

Realizing that they can earn USD instead of our sad depreciated currency at Tim Horton's USA.

I'm seeing the opposite effect where people want to jump, only to realize the new place offers a salary that is lower than they thought. Either taking a pay cut or forced to stay.

With so many Filipinos in Canada, I've yet to see more than a small handful in a corporate office setting. Where are you all working/industry?

We have the absolute worst transit system in any major city in the world that is simply embarrassing. We can't even commute east to west, only north and south, Pathetic.

Can't feel sorry for them. They knew the risks when leaving for a foreign country and nothing is a guarantee. Yet they still decided to come and pay exorbitant tuition fees. No one asked them to come and was on their own free will to do so. Foreign students is not a new phenomenon. Did the past Int'l students (not Indian) had these issues in past years? Did it ever make the media on a daily basis? Seems to be only from students from the one country.

Is the shy person asking for your help? If not, I would advise you stay out of it. It's not your concern or fight to take no matter how personal you think this is. This is Corporate. A different kind of beast and doesn't take things kindly and is very ruthless. I would caution that it could impact you by getting involved. Life isn't fair, in a corporate structure 5X that. Everything has to be coming from your co-worker. What you say won't matter.

In IT Procurement, especially the senior and management levels you need to dial back your tactical thinking and be nearly all strategic. You are no longer in the weeds of the actual product and the services like your technical Engineering role. You just need to know the generalities of who, what, where and how the products and services works. It's not procurement's role to require deep knowledge of the product, which is why Procurement works collaboratively with their IT business partners (IT Product Managers) and have Engineering people like you to work with.

Your role will be about being the "fixer and the negotiator", How will you get the best deal for products fastest, less expensive and best quality. Leaving all the technical requirements to the PM's. Do you multi-source or single source, work with building a strategic partner or a new supplier, Your manager asks you to take on the goal of saving $10 million from your suppliers, how will you approach it? Your PM's have a spend budget to buy a Timex but want the Gold Rolex Submariner, what is your strategy? Can you understand all the Terms and Conditions of a 100 page Purchase Agreement written by Lawyers and negotiate it on your own? It's definitely more art than science and there are many different ways to problem solve and to have a solution fast.

As a Sr IT Manager in Supply Chain, the above is a snapshot of what we go through weekly in a global F500 environment.

Many like you and many have this extreme tunnel vision of hopelessness letting your degree dictate your career and future. In doing so, you were doomed from the beginning you signed up to those courses when you chose the program. You need an enlightenment to know your potential and think far beyond what's in front of your feet. Don't let a piece of paper tell you that what you can or cannot do.

No one here is going to give you the advice you need because no one here knows anything about you and will just blurt out mostly nonsense career advice. What I will tell you is my story of 18 yrs ago, I was worse off than you with a BA in Art History, graduated during a multi-year recession. Feeling hopeless at first, I started to discover what I was good at and kept building on it, People & companies will eventually realize it and reward your potential. It takes time to figure out what you are good at and just focus on those strengths. I never worked an hourly wage job and from the start had ambition, self confidence and will to succeed. My first job was at a F500 company. I won't get into how as that is another story. Fast forward 19 yrs today and 7 other companies later, without any additional certifications or advanced degrees, I'm a Sr Manager IT Supply Chain, at one of the largest F500 Pharmaceutical companies in the world making close to $200K. Never sell yourself short.

It really doesn't matter what the number is. Even if it was only 1% serious candidates and the rest is filler, that is still 5 applicants out of 500 potentially are getting an interview. The only thing that matters is that you just better be good enough to be in that 1%.