r/mining • u/Proof-Performance-68 • 1d ago
Canada Entry Level Position
Hi everyone,
A bit of background about me — I’m a recent Computer Science graduate from a Canadian university (international student). It’s been about six months since I graduated, and I’ve been actively looking for a development role. I made it to final interviews with two software companies, but aside from that, things haven’t panned out yet.
Right now, I’m working in the mines as an IT technician, but my contract is ending soon and it doesn’t look like they’ll be keeping me on. I’ve been considering transferring to another department to make ends meet — maybe even working as a miner or looking into trade school.
I’m wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation and could share some advice or direction. Are there any transferable skills I could lean into? Do you know of any mines or companies that actively hire IT or software people?
Any tips, insights, or leads would be hugely appreciated. Thank you in advance!
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u/twinnedcalcite Canada 1d ago
This is the time you put together everything you worked on and see if there is anything you can propose to make things easier for other people.
Show that you understand the current state of things and how to move forward.
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u/hepennypacker1131 1d ago
I can think of Rio Tinto. They have a lot of IT positions. May be try networking with folks in LinkedIn?
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u/AlwaysWhistling 1d ago
Consider Autonomous trucks and automation in mineral processing and instrumentation. It is just fixing wifi for the office folks. You can get into production too. Join the tonnage boys
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u/_Odilly 1d ago
Get real friendly with the electricians and mechanics, Every coms company is developing/developed data over the coms systems, ever major equipment manufacturers are going autonomous control. The mechanics and electricians can give you names of companies that are approaching them to sell systems, names of contacts of systems they use. Software development should be applicable to those companies