They totally understand that if you are going to get great developers you should expect that they will have side projects. Side projects hone skills and expand horizons.
Depends where you are coming from. Basically, the way I understand it is like this:
Platinum: From Great Britain, automatic acceptance, some sort of old law that is still on the books.
Gold: From United States w/ BSc, BASc, BEng, BMath, CS, etc... If you have a white collar job offer it is basically a shoe in.
Silver: A whole host of countries (New Zealand, AUS, Israel, Germany, China, Korea) w/ a family member or a job offer.
Bronze: A refugee. Or from a country like South Africa. Harder to get in. Get on a waiting list, wait for years till something gets triggered.
Denied: Palestine, Iran (except to study, or unless you are Bahia)
Check with a lawyer though. I'm certainly no expert, I just repeat the experiences of my friends.
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If you meet these minimum requirements, your application will then be processed according to the six selection factors in the skilled worker points grid. The six selection factors are:
your education
your abilities in English and/or French, Canada’s two official languages
your work experience
your age
whether you have arranged employment in Canada, and
your adaptability.
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Another cool thing about being a developer/designer at FB is that they encourage side projects. Proof? http://www.guestlistapp.com/about/ http://www.freshbooks.com/our-team.php
And here is head of dev tweeting about them: http://twitter.com/barsoomcore/statuses/3224450516
Here is VP of Marketing tweeting about them: http://twitter.com/MitchSolway/statuses/3210081160
Our very own "Queen of Hearts" (social media++ girl): http://twitter.com/rlangdon/statuses/3178658450
They totally understand that if you are going to get great developers you should expect that they will have side projects. Side projects hone skills and expand horizons.