CGA Job postings
Hi,
I'm afraid this is going to be a bit of a rant but I want people to hear something from the perspective of an employer: I have ads running on the CGA job site - ads that I (my company) have paid money to run - that state specifically our intentions to hire individuals for in-office work, meaning they must be eligible to work in our location (Toronto, Canada). In fact, here is the exact wording of our posts:
"This is a full-time position on location in our office, situated in the heart of Toronto's design and fashion district. No contractors please! Applicants must be qualified to legally work in Canada."
Of all of the applications we have received to date, 75% have been from individuals that do not meet these criteria. Further, most of these have been from individuals with no intention whatsoever to meet these criteria, and a couple have been outright spam applications from companies overseas telling me about their outsourcing services. It is extremely frustrating (not to mention time-consuming) to go through all of these applications only to find that most of the applicants have no respect for the process that we are undertaking. Not only does it make me want to stop advertising on CGA - and I mean this as no disrespect to CGA itself - but it weakens my faith in those that I would consider a possibility for contract work, should it materialize.
Before anyone starts telling me that I'm beating up on contract workers, let me state a few things about why I am looking for on-site employees:
1. Canadian employment regulations state that we cannot hire individuals from outside Canada without first going through a thorough search for Canadian workers. When we cannot find a suitable candidate within Canada we then must prove to the government that we have conducted a reasonable search. Then, we must go through a work visa process that can take months to complete and that does not necessarily guarantee a successful outcome;
2. Contract employees cannot replace the dozens (or more) of benefits that full-time, on-site employees bring to a company. These benefits include, among other things, technical development, asset creation and organization, training, project management and team morale;
3. Contract employees are more expensive than full-time employees because of the reliance on hourly wages;
4. For many projects there is a need for immediate communication and action that often cannot be accomplished with a contract employee given their lack of exclusivity, time-zone differences and communication barriers.
As I said, these are reasons why I, personally, am looking for full-time employees right now. That is not to say that I am against contract workers, nor does it state that I am completely opposed to some of the outsourcing/insourcing concepts that have been discussed of late. I recognize that contract workers need to spread the word but applying to a job posting that he/she is not qualified for is not the way to do it, IMO.
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