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Canada, an employment leader

In the latest OECD outlook on employment, Canada ranked 7th world-wide, just after the Nordic countries, Switzerland and New Zealand...


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More than 44,000 participants in L’Oréal’s online business game

Each year, L’Oréal organizes the “L’Oréal e-Strat Challenge,” an online business game for students all over the world...


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10 ways to advance your HR career

“We are central to the career development of employees, yet we are often too busy to think about our own advancement,” deplores Mike Losey...


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Agriculture: Recruiting via work simulation exercises

The French national employment agency (ANPE) presented an original method of recruiting in agriculture. The method is based on exercises that simulate work situations...


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The end of the CV. You can put away your 2- to 3-page CV…

Prediction for 2010! At the beginning of each year, predictions of all kind are made. Here is one that will at least have the merit of applying to all the signs of the horoscope, regardless of your decan. Let me predict the end of the CV as we know it.


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10 recruiting trends for 2007

With an unemployment rate at its lowest level in 30 years, 2007 promises to be a challenging one for Canadian recruiters. We outline 10 major trends to help you better understand what lies in store for the coming year...


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Welcome to the Human Resource Manager’s offices

For some time now, a new way of working has been making its way into Human Resources: shared or multi-employer human resource managers (HRMs). Details on these new professionals follows...


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The “virtual profile”: a new tool for recruiters

Have you ever typed a candidate's name into Google or Yahoo? You're not alone! 77% of executive recruiters are already doing it nowadays...


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Human Ressources : Older workers—far from over the hill!

Experts have sounded the alarm bell: in 2015, people 45 to 65 years of age will represent close to half of Canadian workers...


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Recruitment by simulation

For its sixth store in the Paris region which opened a year ago in Franconville (a Paris suburb) Ikea turned to an atypical hiring method. Three quarters of the 420 employees at the new store were recruited according to a “recruitment simulation method".


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Google’s carrots for attracting the best

If Google is the best search engine in the world, with 8 billion indexed pages and 250 million requests per day in 35 languages, it’s machine for recruiting and developing the best talents works through a sophisticated cocktail of work conditions and benefits reserved for the stars. This cocktail of work life conditions aims to develop creativity.


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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...


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