Minimum recruitment requirements
Before applying for a Labour Market Impact Assessment, you must conduct at least three different recruitment activities:
To be national in scope, Canadians and permanent residents must have the capacity to search advertisements for work locations across Canada in a single site, as opposed to referring to individual or regional sub-sites.
Note:
Prior to August 28, 2017: you were required to advertise either on Job Bank or its provincial or territorial counterpart in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Quebec. These provincial and territorial job boards can still be used as an additional recruitment activity.
Job Match service
Effective August 28, 2017, you must use the Job Match service for recruitment purposes when advertising a position on Job Bank.
The Job Match service allows you to see anonymous profiles of registered job seekers which correspond to the skills and requirements outlined in your job posting. Each match is rated using a star system of one to five stars. The more stars received by the match, the greater the compatibility between your advertised position and the anonymous job seeker.
When creating your job posting, you must select the ‘’default’’ option. This option allows matches with job seekers from a wide variety of background as opposed to the ‘’strict’’ matching mode, where matches may be limited to fewer job seekers.
When seeking to fill a high-wage position, you are required to invite all job seekers matched within the first 30 days of your job advertisement to apply for the position if they are rated four stars or more.
Methods of recruitment
Acceptable methods of recruitment for a job advertisement include:
If the two additional methods of recruitment are online, they must each have unique value and reach different audiences. In cases where you advertise on multiple websites of the same type, the combined advertisements will only be considered as one additional method of recruitment.
Recruitment documentation retention
You must keep records of your recruitment and advertising efforts for a minimum of six years. You will also be asked to provide the results from the recruitment efforts you undertook to fill the position.
You must ensure that the job advertisement:
At least one of the three recruitment activities to seek qualified Canadians and permanent residents must be ongoing until the date a positive or negative Labour Market Impact Assessment has been issued.
The required job advertisement information includes:
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