Hire French-speaking or bilingual workers outside Quebec

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has options to make it easier for employers to hire French-speaking or bilingual workers outside Quebec. Hiring a French-speaking or a bilingual candidate could provide you with a number of advantages.

For example you can:

• serve clients in French and English
• tap into new markets or new international networks
• benefit from support from the Francophone community, such as the Francophone Immigration Networks and the Réseau de développement économique et employabilité (RDÉE) (in French only)
• benefit from up-to-date information on IRCC’s Express Entry from outreach officers located across Canada

If you are hiring temporary workers who do not need a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), you must submit offers of employment through the Employer Portal. Find out if you need to get an LMIA and how to submit an offer of employment if you do not need one.

Options to hire French-speaking or bilingual candidates

Contact the Canadian visa office in Paris to recruit foreign candidates

If you have a job opening and would like to recruit a foreign worker temporarily or permanently from a Francophone country, you can send your job offer to our visa office in Paris. Include detailed information such as:

• job title;
• duties;
• expected start and end dates;
• salary and benefits.

Many countries have public employment services that specialize in international recruitment to help their citizens find work abroad. Our staff at the visa office can refer you to the services that will best meet your needs. These local government services can help you find candidates and support you through the recruitment process, free of charge.

Through these services, you can recruit candidates from a number of countries, including France, Belgium, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Mauritius, Mexico and more.

These services are available year-round and free of charge to all Canadian employers with job offers outside Quebec.

The Destination Canada Mobility Forum

The Destination Canada Mobility Forum 2023 will take place

• in Paris, France, from November 18 to 19
• in Rabat, Morocco, from November 22 to 24
• online, from December 4 to 6

The event connects Canadian employers with skilled French-speaking candidates in a variety of fields, such as

• information technology
• multimedia
• marketing and communications
• finance
• hospitality
• culinary and food industries
• translation
• aeronautics and avionics
• construction

More information about how Canadian employers can post their job offers will be available when registration opens in September 2023.

Make a job offer to an Express Entry candidate

Express Entry is a system used to manage applications for:

• the Federal Skilled Worker Program
• Federal Skilled Trades Program
• Canadian Experience Class and
• a portion of the Provincial Nominee Program.

Find out more about the Express Entry system.

Consider using Express Entry candidates if you can't fill your labour market needs with a Canadian or permanent resident.

You can make a job offer to an Express Entry candidate, supported by a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), if needed. Then, they are awarded additional CRS points for their job offer. A job offer increases their chances of being invited to apply for permanent residence when the applicants from the Express Entry pool are invited to apply.

Through Express Entry, we process the majority of complete applications (those that include all supporting documents) in 6 months or less.

Job Bank has a matching function to connect eligible employers with Express Entry candidates. This will help you find qualified French-speaking or bilingual candidates.