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The Rainbow method

Red, Green,Blue...How would you like to be able to improve the efficiency of every one of your employees and work teams through a better knowledge of each person’s potential? Hmm, sounds good, you say, but is it really possible?


By the numbers

For 47% of recruiters, finding qualified candidates remains the biggest current challenge

Many managers are having a hard time recruiting qualified employees despite a cooler job market.


Oddly enough

Posing nude to save their jobs

In August, 13 workers threatened with layoffs produced a calendar of themselves in the nude to prove their determination to management.


Call to order

Crisis or not, the best and brightest are not afraid to look elsewhere

Despite the economic outlook, top performers are not afraid to quit their jobs to seize new opportunities...


By the numbers

28 % of Canadian employers use social networking sites

According to the latest study by CareerBuilder, 28 % of Canadian employers use social networking sites to research job candidates...


News

The Caldwell Partners, Next Generation Consulting, Université McGill, Robert Half, KPMG,…

The Caldwell Partners acquires Cromwell Partners Victoria, heaven for young graduates Temp work leads to depression Managers overwhelmingly in favour of communication Mobile recruiting is here Canadian public sector to ensure the continuity of services


Opinion

Recruiters and their conscience…

Sooner or later, all recruiters have to face a conscience decision—some more often than others, but at some point in a recruiter’s career, it eventually happens. Some confront it bravely, and others, sadly for our profession, in a cowardly manner.


Oddly enough

Introducing the antidote to the open workspace

Steelcase, global specialist in office furniture and workspace solutions, has just introduced a “new mobile concentration space”...


File

HR: Web 2.0 tools within reach

Recruiting, inducting, training and communicating... New Web 2.0 tools are now available to help HR managers in their daily tasks. Now all you have to do is master them!


By the numbers

Canadians feeling less loyalty to their employer

A recent Ipsos Reid study confirms what many human resources professionals already think or strongly suspect: Canadians are increasingly less loyal to their employer.


New

Jobg8 network launches in Canada

Started in Great Britain in April 2008, Jobg8 has just announced the launch of Jobg8 Canada...


File

E-learning, still an abstract notion in Canada

Based on various studies, Canada is wired, but as regards the use of these new tools, the country is lagging, particularly in the area of e-learning.


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