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Interesting summer job

Census Enumerator (Former Employee) – Edmonton, AB – 15 May 2018

The census was a good experience. Enumeration involves some long hours and lots of walking in the summer heat. It's your own responsibility to get to the area you are needed in.

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Great place to work

Technical Advisor (Current Employee) – Tunney's Pasture, ON – 3 May 2018

Statistics Canada is a great place to work. I have learnt a lot here and it is very different from HRSDC. This is a smaller department and people are more territorial of their work.

Overall great people to work with.

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Very well organized and run institution

Analyst (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 30 April 2018

A national statistical agency charged with the collection and analysis of census data. There is the general census of the population carried out every 5 year. This is usually carried together with the census of agriculture. There are also inter-censal surveys carried out between the 5 year periods

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fun job

Census Enumerator (Former Employee) – Vilna, AB – 16 April 2018

Great job! it was nice way to see the local countryside and meet new people. I had great training and a manager was only a phone all away. I would definitely apply for the job again

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Going door to door for the census

Agent Recenseur (Former Employee) – Montréal, QC – 7 April 2018

Help them to understand the questions and answer properly. It needed a lot of patience in order for them to be able to fill up all of the documents. At the end, I had to put all the data in our system base.

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part time casual

Census Canada Agent (Former Employee) – Saint John, NB – 3 April 2018

well paid
part time term position
this was a government job for stats Canada after the election. hours were very flexible
you needed to be able to work on your own

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Awesome Experience

Census Processing Agent (Former Employee) – Gatineau, QC – 24 March 2018

-Amazing Workplace
-Amazing people
-10/10 Experience
-Learned a lot of new skills
-Fast paced experience
-Typical day at work would be a lot of paper work

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fast paced,

Interviewer (Former Employee) – Sturgeon Falls, ON – 22 March 2018

this was a good place to learn about how the government agencies operate. this was a first job kind of place and they treated you as such. work hard low pay, high expectations

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learning new things everyday and fun working

Telephone Interviewer (Current Employee) – Sturgeon Falls, ON – 21 March 2018

Telephone Interviewers plan, develop, or conduct surveys. Skills relevant to this position and found on applicants' resumes include performing telephone interviews for a wide variety of surveys and censuses, telephoning respondents to explain the purpose of surveys or censuses to gain cooperation, obtaining and recording data on a survey instrument, and assisting in the clerical processing of the collected information. Example resumes show that those interested in becoming Telephone Interviewers possess degrees in such fields as economics, business statistics, or marketing research, to name a few.

Pros

learning new projects, day by day improving personal and comunication skills

Cons

late night shifts and late night driving

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Flexible hours and rewarding job!

Census Enumerator (Former Employee) – Huron, ON – 20 March 2018

I really enjoyed how flexible it was to work as an enumerator. However, the customers you have to work with are not always as friendly so you must be determined. Overall, great temporary work.

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Adequate government job

General Social Survey Interviewer (Former Employee) – Montréal, QC – 16 March 2018

Work consisted of performing the typical CATI type work, but in a highly professional and intelligent environment. Not the typical survey work undertaken by market research firms, since the "surveys" are actually data gathering to compile Statistics Canada produced reports, including the unemployment rate, crop yields and business activity in Canada. Provides a sense of doing telephone work that's actually worthwhile.

Pros

good work environment, clean offices, up to date equipment.

Cons

Evening shifts, strict security after 9/11

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Snb

Office Administrator (Former Employee) – Saint John, NB – 16 March 2018

only did this job for a short period of time as i was waiting to be hired on for another position that i wanted and feel as though it would be unfair of me to give a rating as the contract i agreed on was such a short amount of time

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Structured enviroment

QU/CSU Assistant (Former Employee) – Surrey, BC – 14 March 2018

This was a contract position during the census period. Dealing with confidential information, everyone was able to assist each other to make deadlines.

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Excellent environment.

Transcriber (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 7 March 2018

Great work environment during my time as a contractor with Statistics Canada. Given the fact I was contracted, advancement opportunities were scarce and there was a given deadline. Management was excellent and the culture incredible, the people working there make the job the great experience that it was.

Pros

Relaxed yet ambitious environment

Cons

Travel time to and from work (Ottawa to Quebec)

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Great job - set your own hours

Census Enumerator (Former Employee) – Edmonton, AB – 28 February 2018

I went door-to-door and left forms and/or helped clients fill out the forms. Management was always available for assistance. We were left on our own, unless we had difficulties.
The hardest part was when the computers had issues and our data entry got behind.
My favorite part was meeting all the people!

Pros

set your own hours

Cons

unfortunately, I was afraid of dogs while preforming my duties door-to-door

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Bollox

Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewer (Former Employee) – Halifax, NS – 24 February 2018

corrupt management, low quality hiring practices, rampant favoritism, anti-union, inhuman expectations, If you are willing to be a robotic minion with no life and have a second job for main income because unfair distribution of hours (13/week to 38/week; after 5.5 years there my average was 29/week), then you might fly under the radar and do ok.

Pros

benefits provided by union, good wage considering.

Cons

everything else.

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Environnement travail productif et agréable.

Recensement (Former Employee) – Amqui, QC – 21 February 2018

J'ai aimée faire ce travail ça m'as apporter de l'Expérience avec la clientèle et le contact avec les gens.

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Meilleur boulot a vie

Agent aux recensements (Former Employee) – Laval, QC – 18 February 2018

Tres autonome comme travail
Tres flexible sur l'horaire
Taches de travail non exigente
Tres bon salaire

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Interesting Job if you like people

Enumerator/Interviewer (Former Employee) – Nunavut – 7 February 2018

I enjoyed working as an interviewer and enumerator for StatCan. You get to travel and meet lots of interesting people. The drawbacks are it is not a permanent job and it doesn't pay that well

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Decent workplace environment

Statistical Clerk - Contract (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 29 January 2018

The job was decent, money was good, typical government job.

Most of the people I worked with were good people.

Environment was tense, stressful at times.

Pros

Good pay & benefits

Cons

Commute was pretty far, work/life balance wasn't the greatest

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Emploi étudiant parfait

Intervieweuse (Former Employee) – Sherbrooke, QC – 18 January 2018

Emploi étudiant très bien payé, équipe formidable.

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