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| Harnessing Grey Power | BY IAN SUTTON |
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As Canada’s population continues to age, its birthrate declines and worries mount over how employers will meet their workplace needs, attention is increasingly turning to what could be considered ‘the elephant in the room’: Canada’s mature workforce.
But that’s not happening quickly enough. And if employers wait too long, the opportunities at their disposal will be missed. It’s a fact that – aside from a significant influx of immigrants—in the next three decades, Canada will be an older society, with almost half its labour force between 55 and 64.
Barbara Jaworski, president of The Workplace Institute, says organizations still tend to respond only when the hiring crisis looks them in the face. Too often, she says, in a reactive manner... [ read more ] |
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| 10:1 John Amaechi |
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| The son of a Nigerian father and an English mother, John Amaechi embodies diversity: he’s black, gay and 6’10”. Raised in the UK, Amaechi returned to the US when he was 17 for a basketball scholarship that earned him five seasons with the NBA. He now runs a consulting firm, Amaechi Performance Systems....
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| FYI South Wales Police |
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| South Wales Police covers approximately 812 square miles or about 10% of Wales, an area that is home to over 1,225,000 people or 42% of the country’s population. Its force territory includes the cities of Cardiff and Swansea. Tracy Davies is the head of shared services, human resources, for South Wales Police. Or, as they say in Welsh, Heddlu De Cymru...
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| ETC global news briefs |
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Canada
Despite a record 68 women MPs being elected last month, their representation in the House of Commons remains low at 22%, only 1% higher than 2006. More women ran in this election (300) compared to the last election (248) with the Liberals running the most female candidates (113). But when all the ballots were counted, 23 Tories got in, giving the Conservatives the largest number of women MPs and the highest success rate for female candidates (36%). The Liberals elected 18, the NDP 12 and the Bloc Québécois 15...[ read more ] |
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| VIP Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP |
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Blake, Cassels & Graydon has a story to tell and here’s how it goes:
“One of our lawyers in our Calgary office recently emailed our managing partner to say, ‘You know, here’s some business we got. When we could show them we had a diversity business sheet as part of our normal marketing materials that was really important to them and they were very interested in learning about diversity. And that opened the door for us to do more business.’”
The storyteller is Mary Jackson, chief officer of legal personnel and professional development at Blakes, one of Canada’s leading business law firms. She explains, “That was an example that resonated with people because it showed a specific example of how to use diversity and link it to business.” ...[ read more ] |
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| MVP diversity champions |
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| For the second year in a row, the Corporate Star Award from the Forum of Executive Women (FOEW) has been given to Kenexa, a global provider of talent management and retention solutions. The award recognizes companies in the greater Philadelphia region whose corporate boards are composed of at least 25% women...[ read more ] |
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Ask a consultant
BY EVENLINA SILVEIRA |
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Dear Diversity@Work:
My organization seems to be doing a good job of hiring different kinds of people. We have hired people from different ethnic backgrounds, women and people with disabilities, and Aboriginal people. I think that we are taking a leadership role, but the problem is that these people are not staying, and the other problem is that the other people that were there before don’t appreciate having these new people around. It seems like things are worse than before. I had good intentions and they just seemed to go haywire.
Haywire in Halton.... [ read more ] |
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Taking Advantage of a ‘Teachable Moment’
BY JIM HASSE |
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What do employers need to know about hiring individuals with visual impairments in the light of the film, Blindness?
“Your fears of losing everything when you lose a faculty are unfounded. In fact, you can continue to live and achieve,” says writer Nan Hawthorne, who has a visual impairment.
“Life as a blind person is different, not necessarily less.”
Hawthorne and other members of eSight Careers Network have been discussing the social implications of the film by director Fernando Meirelles that currently is being shown in movie theatres across North America.
Based on the 1995 novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, Blindness imagines a mysterious epidemic that causes people to see nothing but fuzzy white light resulting in a collapse of the social order in an unnamed city... [ read more ] |
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