Info on selection.
It starts after your cv is received although the initial mail return may take a while you don't worry...it will come. You will be sent an invitation to attend a week long assessment at either one of NAVCANADA's ACC's or one of their training facilities. You pay for your own flight, they pay for your hotel. You will be sent a cd with the MATS pt1 effectively for CANADA. You return an acceptance mail to them if you want to go. Be patient they have dozen's!!
You also send them a bond of £300 or so which is returned to you on arrival...it books your place. They collect you from the airport and give you spending money for the week. On day one you are given a three hour written test of the MATS, ie separations etc...none of ours have failed it!. Then a few days of radar assessment using their procedures on a TMA piece of airspace (maps on your cd). Then a personnel interview to make sure you arent a psycho (we struggled on that one!!). Then if all goes well you're offered a position. Centres include Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Moncton, though availability varies and most are now oversubscribed by the flood of MACC people going.
Downsides? compared to our choices...we don't see any.
For the info go to NAVCANADA website, employment, experienced controller program.
Good luck.
