Overview

Abstract (English)

Key Points: * Immigrants and Canadian-born use similar methods to find jobs. Most had found their current position through family or friend networks followed by taking personal initiatives. * Help wanted ads and direct recruitment by employer were next important methods for finding out about job openings among most groups. * Job fairs and union postings were reported as least important methods of learning about jobs. * Immigrants in the natural and applied sciences and in the social science, education, government service, and religion, reported relatively high usage of the internet in job searches, especially in comparison to the Canadian-born in the same sectors. * When analysed by occupational classification, on-campus recruitment was more important for Canadian-born persons than immigrants with the exception of those in social science, education, government service and religion, and sales and services. * When analysed by ethnoracial category, Canadian-born Arab, West Asian or North Africans reported that they were often directly recruited by their employers, as did immigrant Latin Americans, white and the other visible minority categories. Immigrants were also more likely to report that recruitment agencies were helpful in finding their current jobs more so than Canadian-born persons.

Abstract (French)

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