Untapped Talent (Looking In, Reaching Out)

HR professionals have been trained to identify specific needs in their organization’s workforce and find people to meet them. However, too narrow a focus...

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How to Prepare Your Workplace for the Aftermath of Marijuana Legalization

With cannabis being decriminalized under federal legislation on October 17, 2018 — roughly six months ago — many employers have tried to anticipate how this...

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Immigrant Recruitment in Canada: A Truly Competitive Platform Needed

By Riffat Shahnawaz Based on my human resource management (HRM) knowledge, Canadian recruitment managers try their best to fit with Human Rights and Employment Standard...

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Could Low Oil and Gas Prices End Western Canada’s Talent Shortage?

By Kael Campbell Could low oil and gas prices in Western Canada mean the end of talent shortages that have plagued Canada for the last...

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Boomeranging Boomers: Older Workers Can Help Solve The Labour Shortage

By Alexandra Lopez-Pacheo For decades, the 9.6 million Canadians born between 1946 and 1965 have been the single largest demographic in Canada’s labour force. Now,...

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Generation Y Factors Large In a Future of Milliseconds

By Laurie Dillman As the struggle to recruit top talent builds on a global scale, organizations are realizing that more and more of the most...

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Recruit Beyond the Job Board

By Lindsay Macintosh, CHRP The ability to change recruiting strategies fast enough to meet the demands of technological and labour market changes is a major...

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Skills Mismatch a Growing Concern

By Jock Finlayson It is now more than three years since Canada’s recession officially ended and the economy returned to a path of (modest) growth....

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