As we look forward to either finding a new job or a promotion in 2015, it is a good time to introduce three things that will help your career. Adding these three things to your weekly routine will help you…
Interview thank-you notes are the most effective interview tools you probably don’t use. Most candidates just walk into the interview, say their lines and leave, never to be heard from (or hear from the employer) again. A thoughtful and relevant…
You’ve just received your first promotion. Congratulations! It’s a proof of your hard work and commitment, and you deserve it. However, now that you’re a manager, things are going to change. You will have more responsibilities, and possibly even staff…
Before sending you to an interview, recruiters will tell you: “do your research!” But with so much information about employers on the web, knowing how much is enough (or how much is too little) can make the difference between panicking…
A lot of positions in power plants, upgraders, manufacturing plants and mining are based on shift schedules to keep the business running all day, every day. Most of the time, workers’ schedules rotate on these shifts so that nobody has…
When a company has a job vacancy, it's not really saving money. Along with the price related to finding and hiring the right person, companies also absorb costs in lost productivity and business opportunities. And given the amount of trades jobs going…
Thanks to the new Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (abbreviated as CASL), it's gotten a whole lot harder for businesses to email people. Employment agencies, recruiters or headhunters, by definition, have to attract candidates. To do this, we have to actively communicate…
In recruitment, screening and interviewing candidates can often lead to more questions than answers: did their employment history seem a bit shaky or it felt like they were not being entirely truthful in their response? You want to know more…
The federal government just announced that Canada is cutting the Employment Insurance premiums for small and medium businesses. What does this mean for large employers in Canada and should they be screaming for a similar reduction in EI premiums? The…
Alberta has just launched its version of the highly controversial, federally-funded Canada Job Grant Program. But will this mean thousands of jobs will be created for tens of thousands of unemployed Albertans? To be honest, no. This program is only controversial…