His RESUME ignored a hundred times

Photo courtesy of Anna Ahronheim
Anna Ahronheim, 30 years ago, has left Quebec four years ago for Israel. Almost all his childhood friends are also gone. “It must remain five or six only,” she said.

Dominique Scali

Saturday, 17 February, 2018 01:00

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Anna Ahronheim said to have applied to a hundred jobs in Montreal. In five months, she has called for a single interview.

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Born into a jewish family near the metropolis, the young woman of 30 years has studied homeland security. She sought for positions in agencies and private security firms, but also for other jobs, including as a secretary.

She admits that her French is imperfect, but believes that employers have ignored his CV for jobs that she would have been able to occupy, simply because it is English-speaking.

Discouraged, she moved to Tel-Aviv, Israel, four years ago, where she quickly found a job.

“Yet, my Hebrew is not better than my French,” she says.

Decline desired

The probing Light reveals that the majority (60 %) of English-speakers have ever considered leaving the province of Quebec.

Many English speakers have the impression that the francophones want to see them disappear, which contributes to their feeling of exclusion and their impression of not being welcome in Quebec, ” says Richard Bourhis, a professor in the psychology of intergroup relations at the University of Quebec in Montreal.

Most young people feel “uncomfortable” and have the impression that the francophones want to “lessen” the more they have the intention of leaving the Beautiful Province in the future, observed by the researcher in a study carried out among students at McGill University.

As well, Quebec does not even the half of its university graduates-English speaking born here, according to figures dating back to 2011, Statistics Canada. Less than 34% of those who hold a phd remain, while 91 % of francophones with a degree similar to remain.

To the minister for Relations with English-speaking Quebecers, Kathleen Weil, it is downright a ” brain drain “.

Many have the impression of being disadvantaged on the labour market compared to the francophones, and that their bilingualism is seen as an asset in other provinces.

Discrimination ?

The language is the reason most often mentioned by people who say they have already been discriminated against in Quebec, said Richard Bourhis.

This phenomenon fits in the tendency of humans to favour people who are like them, ” Mr. Bourhis. It is therefore possible that employers francophones are reluctant to hire English-speakers because of their accent or because they do not share the same cultural references.

“Time and again, English speakers do not know Marie-Mai” shows there.

The English school system does not create enough interest for the quebec culture, believes Jean-Paul Perreault of the body Imperative French. According to him, it isolates them from the French-speaking majority.