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Sep 27
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Employee Engagement

By Employer

It’s time to tackle employee engagement. Conduct your research and gather strategies to boost team morale and maximize productivity.

Implement flex hours? Give extra vacation days? Team competitions and contests outside the office? All great ideas, but alone, they won’t work long-term. Rewards and perks are wonderful to offer, but that’s all they are: rewards and perks – temporary stopgaps designed to slow the drowning of a disengaged team sinking deeper and deeper. Think of the time Bart Simpson clogged the flooding submarine’s pinhole leak with his new, fancy earring – but in this scenario, you have a cantaloupe-shaped crack with only an Employee of the Week plaque in hand. Read More

Aug 23
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Matchmaking: Selecting the right employee

By Employer

In anticipation of the approaching National Matchmaker Day, we’re blogging a two-part series on matchmaking for employers and matchmaking for jobseekers.

You’ll spend as much time around your new employee as you will with your significant other. You’ve prepared a set of questions you’ll ask the candidate on the first interview. You hold core values you’re looking to find in that person. You have a type in mind (Foodie? Traveller? Gym rat? Tech whiz?) If you say you don’t, you’re probably lying. Read More

Aug 02
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“I just returned from vacation. How do I survive at work?”

By Employer

Whether you planned a road trip with the kids across the province, or scored a sweet deal across the ocean and saved thousands, you’re still going to pay – through emails, voicemails, and exhausted males and females who covered for you. So, if you scheduled one last getaway before the September hiring spree, follow these strategies to discourage yourself from skipping your next vacation: Read More

Jul 05
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Dog Days of Recruitment

By Employer

Slower than extra-inning baseball games, more discouraging than sold-out concerts, and as infuriating as the traffic encountered driving north…­­­­ it’s the dog days of recruitment, when the interest of your stockpiled warm candidates will never exceed the heat of the dog days of summer. No one outside the recruitment world understands what you’re sweating through. Read More

Jun 07
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Gen Zs

Recruiting & Retaining Gen Zs in 2020

By Employer

“How does your company positively impact society?”

For hiring managers in 2020, prepare your answers – or lose top, post-millennial talent to your competitor. You know interviews involve more than selling the job – they require selling the company. But, how do you sell a company if you’re unsure which product features your target market needs most? Read More

May 24
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National AccessAbility Week

By Employer

It’s a time to promote and advance inclusion and accessibility for all.

Approximately one year ago, Honourable Carla Qualtrough declared the week starting on the last Monday of May as the time to recognize the potential that Canada’s diversity holds.

“As Canada’s first Minister responsible for Persons with Disabilities, I believe that our country’s diversity is our strength – and when we include people with disabilities, we create a stronger Canada for everyone.” Read More

May 03
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2018 Achievement Awards

Celebrating ‘Doing the Right Thing’

By Employer, General
It was an evening of connection, storytelling, and the celebration of ‘doing the right thing.’

With leaders and influencers from Canada’s business community, award-winning employers, and government in attendance, philanthropist and keynote speaker Michael “Pinball” Clemons expectedly delivered an impassioned speech on empowering youth through education.
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Mar 08
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Career Edge’s Best Diversity Employers

By Employer

The national competition series Canada Top 100 Employers recently released their annual Canada’s Best Diversity Employers (2018). These top organizations offer exceptional workplace diversity and inclusiveness programs within their industry and Canadian region.

The contest recognized the winners’ successful diversity initiatives in many fields and programs for their employees belonging to five groups: (a) women; (b) visible minorities; (c) persons with disabilities; (d) Aboriginal peoples, and (e) LGBT peoples.

Below are Career Edge host organizations and why they were featured:

Accenture Inc.

“Created a National Accent on Enablement employee resource group, which is sponsored by a senior executive and includes two distinct chapters for mental health and persons with disabilities.”

Bell Canada

“Established an LGBT network in 2009 to support the inclusion and professional development of LGBT employees.”

CIBC

“Created a Pathfinder program to offer peer support for new Indigenous employees.”

KPMG LLP

“Operates and supports a dedicated people network for the LGBT community called pride@KPMG.”

Loblaw Companies Limited

“Piloted a dedicated LGBTQ Youth Internship at its Maple Leaf Gardens location, developed in partnership with several organizations.”

Manulife

“Works with Career Edge to offer paid internships for persons with disabilities.”

Ontario Public Service

“Introduced anti-racism legislation to provide measurable targets, public reporting and community consultation through renewable multiyear strategic plans.”

Rogers Communications Inc.

“Launched dedicated pricing for customers with accessibility needs.”

RBC

“Donated more than $3.5-million to various Aboriginal groups and organizations to help increase education, engagement and awareness.”

TD Bank Group

“Is piloting a hiring program with Specialisterne Canada to hire individuals on the autism spectrum.”

Toronto Transit Commission

“Maintains an advisory committee on accessible transit.”

City of Toronto

“Established the Profession to Profession Mentoring Immigrants program in response to employment barriers faced by skilled immigrants.”

Regional Municipality of York

“Is developing a Corporate Diversity and Inclusion Charter, which will be a road map to creating an organization inclusive of employees and customers alike.”
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