MIB TEW

I remember seeing a link on one of the threads for agencies who place foreign workers in Canada. Is anyone able to to provide me with it please. The majority of employment agencies will not 'entertain' foreign workers due to the LMO required. Thanks.

Brownstar

All depends on what you do

MIB TEW

Admin & Secretarial

christmasoompa

I've never heard of an agency that specialises in placing foreign workers.

I'm sure you know that using a recruitment agency is highly unlikely to result in any job offers - have a read of the Job Hunting section of the Wiki for more info about the best way to go about finding a job in Canada.

Good luck.

Brownstar

Absolute rubbish, we hired plenty of foreign workers last year

christmasoompa

What a lovely, polite way of disagreeing with someone's point of view...............and those of many other people and the Wiki on here!

Who's 'we'? And were they secretaries? Or perhaps a slightly more specialist career such as doctors, architects, engineers, etc? I'm sure that people in those types of roles could get a job through a recruiter, but for most 'normal' people, recruitment agencies won't even bother replying to an email or phone call unless you already have a visa.

Brownstar

Just disagreeing with your sweeping statement, which as a Recruiter who's company hired many Engineers from overseas last year, I am perfectly entitled to do.

You have subsequently clarified your statement in that secretaries and admin people will find it hard to a job through an agency. Maybe you should have been specific with your initial post.

Novocastrian

Hang on. It was you who said "It depends on what you do?", a question which was answered before C-O posted that recruitment agencies would be useless.

Your "absolute rubbish" was indeed "absolute rubbish" in context.

<Do I get brownie points for backing up a mod against browniestar? >

Brownstar

True I did but the response about agencies wasn't specific it was a sweeping generalisation stating that recruitment agencies do not help foreign workers, which is absolute rubbish. Agencies do, it just depends on the quality of the agency and the type of job.

Just trying to stop the wrong sort of information being spread about on here. If you have the right skills and the position is in demand, then an agency will help you even if you are a foreign worker.

Novocastrian

Good to know (I suppose). But isn't it equally true that if you have the right skills and the position is in demand you don't actually need an agency? (Assuming that one of the right skills is gumption).

Alan2005

I know of a few companies that only recruit through agencies. Just another example of middle-men who don't actually produce anything; sometimes a necessary evil, but you don't have to like them.

Brownstar

We also can get jobs for people when they don't actually exist, right candidate right place right time.

The main advantage agencies provide for employers are a flexible work force of contractors, especially in the industry I work in. Its very project based and companies need to staff up quickly and hire people for a specific project/period of time. If you hired a 1000 staff people for a project lasting 3 yrs, once its over and you don't need the staff you have a lot of layoff packages to pay out.

There is more to it than say an Estate Agent.

christmasoompa

Please re-read my post - my exact quote was "I'm sure you know that using a recruitment agency is highly unlikely to result in any job offers" - meaning I was referring only to the OP, hence the word 'you'!! If I'd meant it more generally I would have said 'everyone' instead of 'you'.

There may be a minority that are able to use a recruitment agency, but it's certainly not the norm. Even my husband, who is headhunted from Canada regularly and who has had several recruitment agencies contact him with regards to a specific role they've been asked to recruit him for by the company, has been told by all of them that if he'd gone to them directly they wouldn't have bothered taking him on!

christmasoompa

Absolutely..........got an apple for me as well?!

Ikatita

one recruiting agency told me that -at the moment, in Vancouver-

- a lot of companies do their own recruiting, that used to use agencies
- mainly because there are a lot of skilled candidates on the market

(and for info, I do get replies from the agencies, my profile is 10-years experience for high-tech b2b marketing professional)

to the OP:
just write/call to all the recruitment agencies that are in the area that you are targetting, and that place admin staff.
-do you have PR?
-how soon are you available to start?

I agree with the comment on agencies that place for admin staff, you should probably have PR already, be available immediately both for interviews and for starting work.