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Exploratory interviews: a profitable investment!

Your time is precious I know! But recently a HR Director told me that he had stopped waiting for internal managers to “pass over recruitment instructions” to him and that he was getting ahead by suggesting candidates.


Good to know

Best Day of the Week to Post Jobs

When is the best time of the week to put your job postings on-line? eQuest, a company offering a job posting distribution service on an international scale, has compiled information from the 1 million job offers they have posted since the beginning of the year and has revealed the response to us...


News

CareerBuilder lands in Canada

The most significant job board in the US, CareerBuilder, owned by Knigth Riddr, Tribune and Ganette, the three most prominent American newspaper editors, seems determined to make its way to its northern neighbor.


Good to know

Job uncertainty: unstable life for the young European

Constant job uncertainty for Italian graduates; In Spain: Graduates in a state of permanent instability; In France: young people against the first employment contract.


File

Blogs: future tool for recruitment?

A new phenomenon, but more well-known in Europe and the US, work-related blogs are in their first steps here. The Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki, counts a weak 4.4% (22 out of 400) of Fortune 500 companies having a blog available to the public.


By the numbers

Specialized job boards as one of the three most effective methods of recruiting

86% It is the proportion of companies who consider specialized job boards as one of the three most effective methods of recruiting staff in information and communication technologies (ICT).


Toolbox

How to let a good candidate slip away in the final stretch!

Go back to square one. You have let that rare gem slip through your fingers again, yet you know that talent is scarce and good candidates do not grow on trees. But what came over you? Too eager? Attack of paranoia? Act of vengeance against your manager by making him miss his chance?


Rights and labour standards

Is there racism in Canadian recruitment ?

Racism in Canadian recruitment. Have employers demonstrated racism in recruitment? It seems so according to a study published February 22 2006 by the Canadian Labour Congress. The author, Leslie Cheung, is a third year student in public policy at Simon Fraser University. “Lower incomes, higher unemployment and precarious work status are prevalent for visible minorities […]


New

The Monster employment index lands in Canada

At the beginning of February, the mother of online recruitment, Monster Worldwide announced the creation of the Monster employment index in Canada, an indicator of the online workforce demand in Canada. Rikke Wivel, Director of Communications at Monster.ca explains what it’s about.


To Read

“Finally the boomers kick the bucket”

In Quebec, as in a number of countries, the baby boomers have imposed their vision and their way of doing things onto society for a good forty years. But this situation is about to change as retirement age comes knocking…


Interview

Kim Peters from working.com interview

HRjob.ca met Kim Peters during the HRPAO conference & trade show event in Toronto. The person behind working.com has an impressive track record in the Canadian job board industry and has come to a point where she now competes against her own creation…


Oddly enough

Canadians delay their retirement for as long as possible

According to the AXA survey “Barometer Centered Retirement”, carried out in 11 countries involving 6 915 people, it is in Canada that seniors are among the most active! (14% of those surveyed)


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