1. Figures adapted from the TIEDI Analytical Report #17: How do immigrants find jobs? Report available at:

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3. Relevant for this series (Figures 1A-D):
Immigrants and Canadian-born use similar methods to find jobs.
Most had found their current position through family or friend networks or through personal initiative.
Help wanted ads and direct recruitment by employer were important methods for finding out about job openings among most groups.
Job fairs and union postings were not often reported as important methods of learning about jobs.

4. Relevant for this series (Figures 1A-D):
Immigrants and Canadian-born use similar methods to find jobs.
Most had found their current position through family or friend networks or through personal initiative.
Help wanted ads and direct recruitment by employer were important methods for finding out about job openings among most groups.
Job fairs and union postings were not often reported as important methods of learning about jobs.

5. Relevant for this series (Figures 1A-D):
Immigrants and Canadian-born use similar methods to find jobs.
Most had found their current position through family or friend networks or through personal initiative.
Help wanted ads and direct recruitment by employer were important methods for finding out about job openings among most groups.
Job fairs and union postings were not often reported as important methods of learning about jobs.

6. Relevant for this series (Figures 1A-D):
Immigrants and Canadian-born use similar methods to find jobs.
Most had found their current position through family or friend networks or through personal initiative.
Help wanted ads and direct recruitment by employer were important methods for finding out about job openings among most groups.
Job fairs and union postings were not often reported as important methods of learning about jobs.

7. 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.

8. Immigrants were also more likely to report that recruitment agencies were helpful in finding their current jobs more so than Canadian-born persons.
Latin American and East Indian immigrants had comparatively high rates of use of recruitment agencies and of being recruited directly by an employer.

9. 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.

10. When analysed by occupational classification, on-campus recruitment was generally more important for Canadian-born persons than immigrants with the exception of those in social science, education, government service, and religion, and sales and service where immigrants reported using it commonly.

11. Black, Filipino, and Arab, West Asian, or North African immigrants and Canadian-born East Asians commonly reported that On-campus recruitment was an important method of learning about their current job.