MS, have you ever tried to hire someone? You know how many applications a DAY you can receive? Hundreds! To save YOUR time and time of the applicant, it is better to specify your requirements, the narrower the better.. When you receive 100 applications a day, you don't have time to "take the application, and say THANKS FOR APPLYING"! You don’t have time even to open all of them. As a matter of fact, you might miss someone really suitable for the position in this chaotic flow of useless CVs.
As for "Non-Egyptian", I guess I know what they mean. Look, they need staff for the restaurant with obviously arabic (be more specific, Lebanese) cuisine. Now, while Middle eastern arabs (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine) have more or less similar cuisine, Egyptian traditional dishes are different. That's where this specification came from. Another thing, they could be more specific, saying they need "Middle-Eastern" cook, but hey, you cannot blame perhaps arabic-speaking authors of this ad, advertizing in English.
So, nothing wrong with this ad. They need certain master-cooks, who are highly professional in certain cuisine. You know, in Canada, the Company normally cannot hire the employee from overseas, unless the employee with the required set of skills cannot be found inside of Canada. So, one of my fellows was looking for some Japanese cook who is expert in preparing some ONE certain Japanese dish, which my fellow wanted to have in the menu of his new restaurant, to distinguish it from thousands of competitors. Every day my fellow was placing the ad with this requirement, specifying the nationality of the cook, and it was Ok with the Government of Canada, while in other circumstanses it is absolutely prohibited to mention nationality, religion, marital status, etc. Because his business needed particular Japanese with particular set of skills! NOT because he was a racist! So finally he couldn't get a right cook in Canada, and Government gave him an approval to bring such dude from Japan.
Here is the same story. Look, they do not specify the nationality to any other employees, but COOKS.
Think!
MS, have you ever tried to hire someone? You know how many applications a DAY you can receive? Hundreds! To save YOUR time and time of the applicant, it is better to specify your requirements, the narrower the better.. When you receive 100 applications a day, you don't have time to "take the application, and say THANKS FOR APPLYING"! You don’t have time even to open all of them. As a matter of fact, you might miss someone really suitable for the position in this chaotic flow of useless CVs.
As for "Non-Egyptian", I guess I know what they mean. Look, they need staff for the restaurant with obviously arabic (be more specific, Lebanese) cuisine. Now, while Middle eastern arabs (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine) have more or less similar cuisine, Egyptian traditional dishes are different. That's where this specification came from. Another thing, they could be more specific, saying they need "Middle-Eastern" cook, but hey, you cannot blame perhaps arabic-speaking authors of this ad, advertizing in English.
So, nothing wrong with this ad. They need certain master-cooks, who are highly professional in certain cuisine. You know, in Canada, the Company normally cannot hire the employee from overseas, unless the employee with the required set of skills cannot be found inside of Canada. So, one of my fellows was looking for some Japanese cook who is expert in preparing some ONE certain Japanese dish, which my fellow wanted to have in the menu of his new restaurant, to distinguish it from thousands of competitors. Every day my fellow was placing the ad with this requirement, specifying the nationality of the cook, and it was Ok with the Government of Canada, while in other circumstanses it is absolutely prohibited to mention nationality, religion, marital status, etc. Because his business needed particular Japanese with particular set of skills! NOT because he was a racist! So finally he couldn't get a right cook in Canada, and Government gave him an approval to bring such dude from Japan.
Here is the same story. Look, they do not specify the nationality to any other employees, but COOKS.
Think!