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Actyl, Still Hiring Opens Office In Belize City
posted (May 29, 2013)
For months we've been reporting periodically on ACTYL – the Canadian employment agency that's recruiting Belizeans to work at fast food chains in Canada. Well, they claim to like the Belize labour pool so much that they've opening up an office in the city.

The office opened today on Freetown Road and it is the firm's first international recruiting office in Central America. So far only 9 Belizeans have migrated to Canada to work, but 200 have been accepted into the programme, but are awaiting visa approval, which – inclusive of medical tests - can cost a thousand dollars.

Today, the local representative told us that of the 9 who've gone across, two have written back.

Indira Williams - Branch Manager, ACTYL Belize Recruiting and Immigration Office
"Well we received two letters - one from Stacey Ramos and one from Feliz Cucul. The response that we got from them is very positive. The work is that you need to do it fast rather than here in Belize we don't need to move fast but here you need to move fast because there's a lot of customers and a lot of people go to McDonald's and the Subway."

Daniel Ortiz
"Having nine is still a little bit. Is there any reason so little Belizeans have been hired so far?"

Indira Williams
"Right now we have 200 Belizeans that have been accepted to go to Canada but the process in getting the Visa is kind of complicated because the embassy is in Guatemala and we're trying our best to speed up the process and it takes about three months to get the Visa so that is the reason why it's kind of slow for us right now."

According to a press release, with the new office, Actyl is particularly interested in candidates who would like to work in the fields of auto body repair, warehouse labor and heavy-duty mechanics. To be eligible, candidates must have completed high school and be between the ages of 19 and 35.

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