Recruitment across North America

Cross-border hires can bring in extra paperwork. What is required depends on the position, the profession, the employment arrangement, and where the work will be performed. No two files are quite alike.

Rhapsody HR keeps that process moving. We raise the likely requirements early in a search rather than at the offer stage, and we coordinate between you and the candidate as each step comes up. Where a file calls for professional advice, we can connect you with immigration or employment specialists.

A Canadian employer finds the person it wants in Boston or Seattle. A US company opens its first Canadian office and needs someone on the ground in Toronto. A Canadian company expands into the United States and needs someone in-market in New York or San Francisco. A candidate wants to relocate for family reasons, and the employer has never sponsored anyone before. Each of these arrives with a different set of questions, and Rhapsody HR has worked through all of them.

Remote arrangements raise their own points. Where an employee works from one country for a business in the other, payroll, tax presence, and the employment contract itself all need attention before anyone signs.

How Cross-border Hires Have Gone in Practice

Marketing Lead Relocating from Chicago to Vancouver

Nine weeks from first conversation to start date, with the work permit handled alongside the interview process.

Sales Director Relocating from Toronto to Seattle

A first-time cross-border hire for the client, with the authorization steps handled alongside interviews so the start date stayed on track.

Contract Controller Supporting a US Parent from Ontario

An arrangement that needed the employment structure settled before an offer could go out.

Information on this page is general and does not constitute immigration, legal, employment, or tax advice.

Recruitment across North America

How Cross-border Hires Have Gone in Practice

Marketing Lead Relocating from Chicago to Vancouver

Sales Director Relocating from Toronto to Seattle

Contract Controller Supporting a US Parent from Ontario

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