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| October '07 - In this Issue |
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| Update on mature workforce |
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Mature workers continued to show the strongest growth in the Canadian labour force in 2007, with women showing the greatest increase in the workforce among older workers...
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| Immigration, integration and frustration |
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| Where foreign-trained doctors and engineers come from greatly influences their chances of finding work in their field in Canada. Those same chances also depend largely on when they arrived here, a new study indicates... [ read more ] |
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| VIP: The Aeroguard Group |
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| If the Aeroguard Group knows anything, it’s how to recruit and retain a diverse workforce. And they have the numbers to prove it. As a provider of air passenger and baggage screening from Ontario west to BC and the Northwest Territories, Aeroguard employs 1,400 people and boasts an 80% retention rate. How do they do it? ...[ read more ] |
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| MVP diversity champions |
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| Profiles in Diversity Journal recently announced the winners of its 2007 Innovations in Diversity Awards, given to honor corporations, organizations and institutions around the world that have developed innovative programs in the area of workforce diversity and inclusion. For the second consecutive year, the top honors went to Sodexho, in recognition of its Champions of Diversity program...[ read more ] |
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| Government employers take initiative in hiring immigrants |
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| Ask your cab driver what he did before coming to Canada and he might tell you about his achievements as a surgeon in his home country. Ask the woman steaming the milk for your latte how she mastered the espresso machine and you might hear a grad school dissertation on micro-credits and fair trade coffee. We’re all aware of the difficulties that immigrants face in seeking skills-appropriate employment. Perhaps we’re less aware of some of the promising practices that employers are using to access highly skilled immigrants...[ read more ] |
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| Recruiting for police services |
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The changing demographics of job candidates and the need for managers to tailor their management styles accordingly is an important concern in today’s workforce. But how we recruit in a multicultural society has to change as well.
In policing, the traditional means of recruiting that have suited us well for more than 150 years are no longer appropriate. Newspaper advertisements, “shopping mall” recruitment booths and the twice-a-year university or college job fairs just don’t meet our needs.
Applicant pools are changing...[ read more ] |
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| Recruiting for police services |
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| Recruiting and hiring persons with disabilities can be managed by human resources departments or outsourced to employment agencies, but what duty does the employer have to accommodate and retain their employees? ...[ read more ] |
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