Welcome to a lecture kriegers in Canada, hospitality and food service. In this lecture we will talk about recruiting Canada in general, and they want are more focused on hospitality and food service jobs that can help you obtain employment in Canada in your field of an experience. recruitment agency provides services to hiring companies with specific needs. They favor the quality of your relationship with recruiters instead of the quantity of agencies to contact. Always include a cover letter when forwarding the resume to a recruitment agency. So it's important to understand it's not how many recruiters you contact on a daily basis but the quality in this case is up.
You are a person that is a professional and was experienced in food service like a chef, line cook, a baker or a person in contact with coffee. service? No, do you understand that you need to choose the right recruiter, they can offer you the type of your that your experience can match. For that reason, it's important that you know those recruiters get familiar with the website, and also be able to create color when you submit your resume, so they have all the information about expectations, and also a way they can contact you back when a new opportunity arises. So it is important to understand that requirement from the recruitment agency what they're looking for, because they represent them connecting employers. So the closer you understand the system, the expectations the better.
You can focus yourself and in meeting those requirements, now it's also the unit on this Is the hiring process what recruiters do in Canada. In general, they're gonna go for the following process. The recruiter will receive the resumes online. Recruiters will review and select resumes based on your skills and experience. The groups will call a selected group of candidates that best match their qualifications. The recruiter will schedule an interview with a few candidates.
The rigorous might ask the candidate to do an assessment. The grid will check reference and support documentation. So whatever you put in your application or in your resume, you're going to make sure that those reference can be checked and supported and also documentation of our level employment, certifications, diplomas, etc. The grids will extend your offer to the successful candidate. Basically After everything is done, they will then extend the job offer on behalf of the employers. And the candidate Finally, will have the choice to accept the job offer or just have the job offer the measure expectation.
Then as a foreign worker, you can be sure that the rest of the process should be a little easier. Example with recruiter in hospitality in Canada is global hospitality. This is a us a picture of the website and you can see the beginning and spraying their areas of expertise, the search process, the position that they recruit for, because not every recruiter have all the positions they specialize in different position, different type of industry in either in the hospitality business because it's a very broad area. They can specialize in a specific area, Chris Fast Food hotels gathering extra for that you need to be able to check in the website information to ensure you understand why is the focus as a recruiter, our company's a pinnacle this company, have a special specialty in restaurant and hospitality. And this is the picture of the website. When you can find a job, check the list of employees they represent.
Also check the blog with information on how to contact them. Okay, we have another popular one is renowned international authorities search consultants. And again, this is the website. You can check the list of employers they have the job seekers. You can search for jobs in their website. And, of course employ you have the choice to contact them but also your secret of choice to go through the session.
Mrs. Craig International. This is the website. And you can search for jobs in different places. For example, in this picture, we have a locations in mountain and Halifax, Nova Scotia and give us more in the meaning of looking for a choice that doesn't require lm lmia. Well look for those records that are located in those provinces. So that way, you have very changes occurring some kind of job without the requirement of lmia.
Especially if the recruiter is aware and know the system and problems of immigration to Canada. So Joe scam said that 94% of rigorous use LinkedIn, too low for Canada, especially in North America, too. That's why it's very important to optimize your LinkedIn profile. Now right away for free Just can give us some advice. There's something called a passive job search, an active job series where you look for the job. Look for the job description.
Try to match your resume to the job description. Do you research about the company include information Nicola and Sarah in a passage of search is a different basically in a passage of cellular signal to rigorous that you are variable and bring opportunities right to your inbox so you put your word out there for recruiters. And that way in a in a passive way comes in a recruiter says information can contact you through email. Now you need to make sure that you online profiles can be searchable so the recruiters can find it online. For that reason, most rigorous source linting to source candidate for open source That's why it's important to have a good profile and LinkedIn. Hiring managers also serves to extend the netcode when looking for potential hires.
And a complete optimized LinkedIn profile is a magnet for recruiters emails and job opportunities. So how can you get started? You need to fill out as many profiles sections as you can in your profile, and linting you need to create a keyword rich linting hotline, especially related to your occupation and you experience take idea from just pausing Canada that you find advertisement about jobs opportunity and get an idea one of the most common word that they use and try to include that word in your profile. You can also use the NOC code so you can see their responsibilities. A standard in Canada for the position under where you can use the most common terms and keyword ingredients. profile.
Now where you profile can be found very easy. online, you need to update your LinkedIn career preferences at all times. You need to use painting optimization to create target profile for the type of job you want. And when once your profile is ready to roll, normal, LinkedIn will show it to a rigorous rigorous can find your profile. So the important thing is to ensure that you follow all the recommendation with the LinkedIn profile. And you're going to make it easy for recruiters to find you in LinkedIn.
You can also fill out recruiter friendly online profiles based on your industry. If you have a website that is targeted for people in the restaurant business, for example, then try to create a profile there. And that way you can have opportunity sometimes you have a small towns that have profiles, those online profiles that you can create In the websites try to go for every little detail not only for the most popular but also for the most, especially the more niche. Now way you might find an opportunity. Another way you can do in your passive search is to load your resume to job boards in differing is that instead of applying for a specific job, you are lowering your resume that is like a master resume. You probably use job boards to search for openings but most of boards also allow you to allow your semester recruiters can search for you again because their records can sell for you.
In those your bore. We suggest you to include a resume that is like a master resume we have all experience or your application of every type of job you have. Okay. Well, Joe can typically advise you to optimize your resume for Asia Pacific job in this case, you want to put all your relevant experience what I said before high skill accomplishment you want as much concrete as possible most of it is two, three pages. Because remember, this is a passive way of getting content through email by recruiters in Canada. Don't worry about the page count.
The goal is to make this master resume searchable for all the jobs you're interested in. And that's the style of learning a master resume in your boards when you know recruiters can contact you. So you focus on those job boards that are located in Canada, in this case, and just below the master resume. Again, when you're applying for a specific job, you use the other si g for active searching by in this case, we're looking for it passive way to get content by recruiters or load your resume to job boards and agrarian platforms. Okay. One of those degrees platform is indeed, the most popular job board for your seekers and riggers alike in North America, are lowering your resume to indeed to result in quality leads via email from corporate and Asian recruiters alike depending on your market.
And I can tell you, not only as a immigration consultant as an immigrant myself, but also as an employer. When we're helping other employers, India is probably the most efficient way to get people to apply for jobs. So it's very effective for job seekers and it's very effective for employers and all websites Career Builder. Some job seeker reports even more rigorous content through Career Builder because Career Builder really attract a lot of recruiters, especially if you are going to be based in Canada. And your job search in Canada career believes very good pricing in North America overall, USA and Canada. However, the quality and relevance of the job isn't as consistent Of course.
Because he's very general. Regardless, you get some action in your inbox and Bible practice speaking with agency and rigorous and you can try all the reportable size like zip recruiter, the letters are over half that might help you also brother your origin when it comes to your passive, passive way of searching for jobs. And finally, a job more like a career as specialize in hospitality jobs for cooks, restaurants, food service, cheff, hotels, etc. You just go to h careers.ca. And in that you're gonna find employers but also recruit them I be looking for talent like you and I can help you specifically, specifically if you're looking for a job in areas that are hard to fill. Also small towns in Canada provinces that doesn't require a mind like Atlantic pilot program or rural problems that might help you find jobs in those areas.
So h h career.ca is probably the biggest place to find employers and recruiters in this plurality business. Okay. And finally, overall recommendation for prepare for Canada, when you tend to allocate time in your effort in your job search methods that are working. When you tend to penetrate into target companies represent probably 80% of the time you have to spend probably 20 hours a day two hours a week. Trying to respond to polish up as probably five to 15% of the time, you can indicate probably 2.5 hours to 7.5 hours. Working with recruiters might take 10 to 20% of your time, like five hours or 10 hours a week and contacting companies directly through the website.
Then or branded different for or information from content of those companies, you can probably spend between five and 15% of your time around 2.5 hours to 10.5 hours. So this is just an idea based on recommendation for websites like the prepare for Canada. So I highly recommend it. Thank you very much for paying attention following this lecture and I hope I see you in the next one. Since Allah