If the shortage of physicians in Canada is as serious as the press says it is, Canada needs us.

Forty years ago, we developed a system specifically designed for the urgent recruitment of high volumes of doctors, nurses, administrators, and allied health professionals to work in the then-urgent development of Western-type hospitals in Saudi Arabia.

At the time, we in the West held mostly negative opinions about Saudi Arabia, and some were frightened or intimidated by it. Consequently, we developed an advertising, candidate assessment, and orientation process which focused on three general categories:

1- Providing detailed orientation to the country, very much focusing on the acceptable cultural and social customs.

2- Obtaining detailed information about a candidate's work experience, personal situation, and family requirements.

3- Direct handling all the paperwork for licensing, visa, relocation, etc. We did not expect candidates to do it themselves. To this day, we still do this, which has gained us a large following and a lot of friends.

The result of our process, especially the hands-on management of every detail from interview to licensing to visas, is over 8,000 successful placements and an unparalleled global network of healthcare professionals who trust us and stay in touch with us.

So if Canada urgently needs doctors, it needs a partner who has experience in the many complexities of handling international healthcare recruitment And we are that organization.

Yes, we make the job easy for the client and the physician:

• “Hard-working and take personal interest” - Dean Miller (for whom we recruited 52 international pharmacists for Canada)

• “(HZA) helped fill a large number of leadership positions. They were transparent, provided introductions to great candidates ... Their attention to the requirements of the positions was very helpful ... Equally, they were attentive to the unique skills and requirements of the candidates." - David Sigalet, MD, PhD, FRCSC (Former Chief Clinical Operations & Deputy CMO for Activation, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar; Former Chief of Surgery at Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary)