Showing posts with label Montreal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montreal. Show all posts

Monday, June 09, 2008

Searching for a job in Montreal

So my previous contract was terminated and I've been out of a job for a week. I've remove the dust from my resume (or as we call it here, the Curriculum Vitea ...) and started searching for a new job. It's not an easy task.

First of all, I won't list the headhunters in Montreal because there are just too many. A simple google search will list most if not all. They do most of the dirty work for your, but might not be able to find the more obscure jobs.

Second, The government maintains a job database for anyone who is a citizen and is unemployed: Job Bank - Home
(it included link for the separate database maintained by the government of Quebec)

Next we have to jobs-posting websites (aka Electronic billboards). Since Montreal is a dual-language city, most services were made in one language first and then ported to the other. Which usually means you have twice as many websites, twice as much effort to do, but not twice as many offers.  Most are usually either:
  1. An (inter)national website offering tons of jobs posting but little offerings locally, examples includes:
    1. monster.ca
    2. dice.com
    3. workopolis.com
  2. A local website offering less jobs but dealing mostly with local offering, examples includes:
    1. Local professional associations
    2. Sites like LesPAC (PAC = Petites annonces classées = Small classifieds ads)
    3. Specialty sites like AgentSolo.com
Make sure you check both the large and the smaller one as large companies will giving listing only to the very large websites will smaller business will try and get employee via the cheaper method (which usually means the smaller websites). Kinda make sense: If I looking for an employee for a local kindergarten, a national website seems a bit overkill...

But, with this, you only that, you won't see the vast majority of offering there is. The best way to see more, is to go directly on the company's website
Places like:
And that is what is taking a lot of my time. Of course, I'm also taking so time off since I hadn't had "real" vacation in over 2 years.

I'll update this post if I find anything interesting to add.
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Apocalyptica

I'm not a huge fan of Metal, but I do like the occasional song now and then...

But I saw a concert on may 1 in Montreal that simply blew me away... I give you Apocalyptica:

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Life Burns

Eurovision 2007

I knew the group before, but the live performance litteraly blew me away. The Metropolis is not a big place, but it was filled with fans... People from completely different group types that all seemed to fit well with the group's style. And we were ecstatic! As one the band member remarked: "Man! You are a loud crowd!"

Since the band itself doesn't have a vocalist, they where touring with Toryn Green, the vocalist from the group Fuel. A great voice, he did a terrific job with "Life Burns" and "I don't Care". Enough for me to check out his own group that I haven't heard before...

Apocalyptica said they might be back in the fall.. I can't wait!
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