With the Canadian Pension Plan (Old Age Security) changing its eligibility requirement from 65 to 67 years, retirement is about to get a little further off for many Canadians. Anyone 54 or older on March 31, 2012 will not be…
Canada is a very large country. Because of this it can be one of the toughest and loneliest places on earth. This Valentines day we encourage you to take a moment to remember employees who are working far from loved…
British Columbia just celebrated its first Family Day, the second of ten mandatory paid statutory holidays throughout the year. Statutory holidays across the country vary in number. BC leads the pack with Saskatchewan and Nunavut with ten per year, followed…
Would you let your employees get onto a bus if the driver didn’t have a license or insurance? Probably not, because you wouldn’t put their lives at risk. If a company uses an un-licensed Employment Agency or Recruiter; lives are…
Saskatchewan has tabled both new Employment Standards and Employment Agency legislation. The first is an over haul of multiple acts to streamline the regulation of employment in the province for all Saskatchewan employees. The second piece of legislation is to…
The Federal Immigration Minister announced today a new Federal Skilled Immigration Stream that targets the immigration of 3000 Skilled Workers in 2013. This long awaited announcement is very interesting. While the new program offers up a solution for skilled labour…
After years of talking about it, we have finally started a video blog on hiring and employment in Canada. Special thanks to Tony Joe who has been inspiring me with his Victoria Real Estate blog for the last year. Here…
Today Facebook announced the launch of their Job Board employment application which has been in the works for well over a year. The first thing I thought of was "Is Facebook's Social Job Partnership coming to Canada?" Well in its…
A recent article on "How to turn candidates into a valuable future talent stream", posted on recruiter.com, really hit home for Red Seal. The way that your company treats potential candidates impacts your brand. Simply put: candidates who are treated poorly…
Harvard Business Review recently blogged that email marketing offers the best return on marketing dollars "Why Email Marketing is King". Is the same true of a company’s return on their recruitment marketing dollar? Are emails more cost effective then posting…