Our dedicated team, including Selin and Christian, regularly undertake recruitment missions, highlighting our practical approach and profound respect for the Mauritian workforce.
PHOENIX-GMI has firmly established its presence in Mauritius and in other countries, focusing on international recruitment, immigration support, and seamless integration of skilled workers and their families into Quebec, Canada. Our commitment goes beyond conventional recruitment services – we actively engage with the local community, demonstrating a personal investment in the success of each operation.
As a leading international recruitment agency, we offer tailor-made and turnkey solutions to address pressing workforce shortages in various sectors in Quebec. Our emphasis on change management within companies enables them to successfully embrace cultural diversity and inclusion.
In the future, we are committed to evolving with the dynamic employment landscape in Mauritius and abroad. We plan to continue our mission of connecting talented Mauritians with exciting opportunities abroad.
– “PHOENIX-GMI realized my dream of working in Canada. Their support was invaluable throughout the process.” – Brayan Leste
– “PHOENIX-GMI truly accompanies us from A to Z. It is even at a strategic level; they help us make good decisions. Phoenix-GMI is indeed a strategic partner for Char-Pol.” – Char-Pol
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PHOENIX-GMI is a Quebec-based company that works in the fields of international recruitment and immigration of employees and their family members. It offers a solution to the province’s labor shortage, promotes the growth of businesses and the integration of qualified workers into Quebec society.
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Selin Deravedisyan-Adam
Co-founder
Director of Immigration and International Mobility Consultant
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514 903 9959 or
418 476 8381 #312
A pioneer and passionate practitioner, Selin has dedicated her career to international mobility since 1993. Her extensive expertise and excellent reputation are rooted in her family history. As an immigrant herself, she moved from Turkey to France and later from France to Quebec. She was rapidly immersed in an administrative role, social work and linguistics that are specific to professionals who support immigration.
Married in France at the age of 20 to Christian, co-founder of PHOENIX-GMI, she moved to Sherbrooke in Quebec alongside her family in 1999. Later, she collaborated with the University of Sherbrooke’s Entrepreneurship Institute and was invited by the Ministry of Education to teach courses on how to start a business. At the same time, she developed her own company in international mobility, which became PHOENIX-GMI in 2013.
In 2008, Selin became a regulated Canadian immigration consultant and eventually obtained her license for the province of Quebec. She positioned herself as a reference in terms of statuses based on work permits both in Quebec and in Canada. Quebec International, a para-governmental organization working in the Quebec City and Chaudière-Appalaches region, hired her as an expert consultant, trainer, participant in consultation tables and strategic development agent with its members.
In 2018, she was elected President of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants for the Quebec region. This new position brought her to work directly with federal and provincial immigration authorities while ensuring that the profession was ethically and effectively represented.
These days, she is continuously motivating her team towards excellence in international recruitment and immigration services, all the while realizing her life ambition – of helping people from all over the world to experience a smooth and peaceful immigration and integration into Quebec society.
Christian H. Adam
Co-founder
Managing Director and Head of International Recruitment
514 903 9959 or
418 476 8381 #311
Christian’s profile
Christian’s career path has been remarkable. As a student of Armenian origin, he emigrated from Turkey to France where he pursued studies in chemical engineering. After a few years in the rubber industry, he gained great expertise in the field, started managing laboratories while traveling through Europe. He diversified his activities towards related sectors: automotive, military equipment and health.
In the troubled context of the Kosovo war in 1999 – a conflict which had repercussions throughout the whole of Europe – he chose to immigrate to Quebec with Selin, his wife (and the firm’s co-founder), as well as their children. There he started managing the research and development laboratories of two Sherbrooke-based companies, considered as leaders in the polymer industry. At the same time, he learned about human resources management and personnel administration in a unionized environment. Along with this flourishing career, he developed multicultural approaches then adapted them to specialized training in business launches and coaching of new immigrants.
Committed to support international mobility, Christian cofounded PHOENIX-GMI in 2013 and simultaneously launched a consulting firm in the rubber industry. From this moment onwards, he was solicited by clients throughout Quebec to oversee the recruitment of foreign candidates in various positions, ranging from production to product finishing and quality control measures.
These days, Christian works as an intercultural mediator. Excelling at implementing international recruitment solutions, he allows companies throughout Quebec to address their labor shortage problems, while helping many qualified foreign workers realize their dream of immigrating to Canada.