With the approaching retirement of 7.5 million baby boomers in Canada, the participation rate could fall to 60% in 20 years, vs 67.5% in 2004...
In order to avoid unpleasant surprises, many employers are increasingly resorting to specialized companies to run background checks on potential employees. Johanne Straiti is manager of pre-employment screening for Garda, a Canadian industry leader...
A draw organized to reward attendance at work is an original initiative launched in the Hordain plant. The draw has drawn the ire of unions and embarrassed management.
Jobing.com buys Canjobs.com Alberta brings down Canadian unemployment rate Labour surplus in Asia to keep an eye on Monster.com attacked by hackers Cultural sector jobs booming in Canada
The new generation of candidates currently arriving on the job market was born between 1982 and 1989. This means they were between 7 and 14 years old when the Internet began!
Jobboom overhauls its home page Monster Worldwide to axe 800 jobs 33% of professionals not interested their sector’s news Manufacturing sector lose jobs Standout Jobs announces $1.5 million in financing 90% of employees are satisfied with orientation programs Employment insurance a problem in Ontario
One employer in three expects to hire over the next quarter The success of .job Stay-at-home dads: is this what men want? Launch of Taleo Enterprise Edition 7.5 Vurv announces record results for Q1
Manpower, the international placement agency, has just published the results of a major study on recruiting and retaining senior employees. 28 000 employers in 25 countries were polled to determine whether companies had set up specific strategies to recruit and keep on senior workers after the age of retirement...
Working with You Is Killing Me The corporate world is well organized. Everyone has a role to play and all work toward achieving well-defined objectives: increasing sales, enhancing the margin, improving productivity, etc. Yet companies are above all made up of men and women who continually live and experience strong emotions
Media in China’s Guangdong province have accused McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut of underpaying their employees. The three fast food chains are allegedly only paying their employees 4 or 5 yuans an hour...
Microsoft buys stake in CareerBuilder Job discrimination still going strong Great success for Canadian Armed Forces recruiting campaign Taleo creates an SMB unit
How does one go about finding the job one was meant to do? All of us have at one time or other asked ourselves this question. Sean Aiken, a 25-year-old new graduate from Vancouver, wants a quick answer...