本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Basically those agents are sales people, they sell us to the recruiting companies and get commission from the company.

Take an example of a agent company "asset " , they have two kinds of people mainly. One is account manager who keep contact with the HR of recruiting company and get all the information like what kind of position is available and what kind of technology that company want and consolidate all the information into their own database. The other is resource manager who talks to client like us face to face directly. Account manager is devided by company and resource manager is devided by area. The person you talk to is their resource manager, they know nothing about technical stuff but just test your language skills and do the pre-screening work. If they think you might match that job then they will send your resume to their account manager who "owns" that position. Now for one position the account manager could get twenty resume from different resource manager. What account manager will do is to match your resume with the position requirement he has on his hand and select 4-5 resume out from them and send it to the HR of the recruiting company. Now fortunately you resume get to the HR people, normally then will arrange face to face interview for some of them and see who is the guy who laugh at last. After you finish the probation period at that company the agent can get 20% of your yearly salary as their commission normally.

Now how those agent works is clear, so you will find out talk to agent is the very first step of your way into the company, and don't be shy when talking to the resource manager, a good professional resource manager should teach you how to talk to recruiting guy properly. Actually the resource manager I contact in asset even help me to modify my resume to fit into Canadian style. Why does he willing to do that ? Because you are his client and he wants to sell you out to the company. So you two have some common interest. You can say that resource manager is responsible for you. But account manager is responsible for the recruiting company so you can not talk as frankly as you do to resource manager although most of the time you won't talk to account manager directly.

This is just one example of how one of those agent company works, but I guess the other placement company works more or less in the same way.

Finally good luck to all new comers on your way to hunting a good company ! ( although I myself is a new comer too)更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛1、英语口语如果较差，必须要上ESL。达到LINC四级最好五级才能开始找工作。我自己的英语在国内时就很好，所以就没上ESL，而我太太上了一年ESL后，现在经常说出一些我不懂的词或事。所以，我甚至建议英语专业的也去上一段时间的ESL。

2、一定要上关于如何找工作的WORKSHOP（讲座或短训班）。这些班通常会讲：就业市场现状，如何自定求职目标，求职途径和手段，如何写简历（我的老师帮班上的每一个同学重写了简历）和COVER LETTER，如何发简历，如何建立社会关系，如何获得加拿大经验（有的会帮你找CO-OP工作），如何展示自己的学术成果（PORTFOLIO），如何面试，如何写THANK YOU LETTER，等等。

3、运用这些学到的方法去找工作。

另外，关于发简历。有人喜欢以量取胜，每天发50份，希望其中有一两份被人看中。而我最多每天只能发5、6份，后来每天只发一份简历。我的一位密友，在经过充分准备，JOB READY 之后，两个星期内发了不到二十份简历，得到了四个面试，获得两个OFFER。而最后，他去了另外一家朋友介绍的公司。他说：他的简历只发给他想去的公司，只求取他能做的工作。他只有少量几个是回应招聘启事，其它都是主动出击的。

我的结论：要现在思想上全面武装自己，全面掌握与本地相适应的专业和求职知识，让自己JOB READY，然后，主动出击，冲向能展示自己才能的潜在就业市场。

附录：强力推荐SKILLS FOR CHANGE。这里有好多种班，你学好英语后，一定要参加这两个：Evening Job Search Workshops ，Employment Assistance Services（包括培训班和其它的全套服务）。

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