Human Resources in Agri-Food

Do you need help finding workers? Are you looking for work in the agri-food sector? This is where employers and workers seek great employment opportunities on farms and in food businesses in eastern Ontario. 

This is an ongoing resource for:

• Anyone looking for a learning or working opportunity in Eastern Ontario.
• Farms and food businesses looking for staff. 
• Schools and agencies offering training opportunities.
• HR firms and agencies offering services to help employers find staff.

The resource is open to anyone looking for work. Employers, agencies, schools must be members of the EOAN. Join now to offer your services and develop your business. 

It is easy to participate. Just write to the Executive Director of the EAON. Include all relevant details, contact information, what you are offering or looking for, web links to your business and job posting, etc...

Job Zone d’emploi is the provider of comprehensive bilingual employment services in the city of Cornwall, and counties of Stormont and Dundas. Whether you are unemployed, looking for a job or exploring career options; a young or mature worker; a new immigrant or an employer looking to hire, Job Zone d’emploi can help! Employers are welcome to post job opportunities with Job Zone.

Contak Staffing Solutions allows employers to get the most out of their business by helping them attract, achieve and sustain excellence both as far as skills and cohesiveness and by providing them with a professional, perfectly-suited and tailored service so that they can thrive on optimal performance within a dynamic and diversified economy.

The Eastern Ontario Training Board develops partnerships that address the socio-economic and workforce development needs of Cornwall, Akwesasne, and the Counties of Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry, Prescott, and Russell. The EOTB engages employers to help identify skill gaps, employment opportunities, training needs and other demand side labour market issues.

Here are some more on-line resources for employment in the agri-food sector.

• Your first step to finding work in agri-food in eastern Ontario is to peruse the local food asset map, read about the agri-food operators that are of most interest to you and contact them directly.
• Through webinars, agri-training opportunities and virtual career fairs, Feeding Your Future allows candidates to learn more about agriculture, enter the workforce feeling prepared and confident and bridges the gap to new employers and job opportunities.
• The Union des cultivateurs franco-ontariens offers an online job board. 
• Ag Careers is a province-wide location for employers and workers to meet each other and check out opportunities. And they have a page more closely focussed on eastern Ontario.
• Good Work is Canada's green job site, featuring jobs in the environmental sector. Their sister site Food Work focusses on job opportunities in the sustainable, ecological and organic agriculture and food sectors.
• The government of Canada has a job bank of general farm workers around Ottawa.