This job board is the perfect place to post your bilingual health care position.
In addition to posting your job here, we encourage you to adopt a comprehensive recruiting strategy. Maximize your chances of finding the right employee by exploring these additional avenues:
- Publish your ad in French and English in French and English media
- Publish your ad in both French and English versions of job sites: Workopolis, Monster, Jobboom, etc.
- Use email distribution lists
- Use social media, including Facebook
- Find professional groups on LinkedIn and post your position for free
Locate hard-to-find candidates
Bilingual candidates are generally well integrated among the English-speaking majority.
- Don’t limit yourself to French-only communication channels and media to find your candidates
- Create an environment that is welcoming to bilingualism. Make sure all staff are aware of the importance of bilingual services.
Be clear! Specify that your position is bilingual.
- Use phrases like “Applicants who speak French and English are welcome to apply”
- Include a sentence in French in your English advertisement to attract the attention of bilingual candidates
Expand your network
Beyond using media, recruitment is often done by word of mouth, through contact networks or others. Consider these possibilities:
- Professional networks, including colleagues and partners, events, French or bilingual conferences
- Personal networks: friends, sports and cultural activities
- Anglophone, bilingual or francophone colleges and universities
- Francophone community organizations
- Recruitment agencies
Source: Several suggestions are taken from the Framework for the Recruitment and Retention of Bilingual Human Resources in the Health Sector.