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Casting a Wider Net: Hiring Internationally Trained Workers

The considerations and benefits of adding skilled foreign workers to your team.

By Melissa Campeau

Imagine your organization needs to hire a skilled professional to fill a vacancy. Now imagine you’ve spent months hunting for the right candidate and you’re still missing that one essential employee. With an aging Canadian population, this isn’t an unusual situation at all. In many sectors, hiring managers are finding it increasingly difficult to secure qualified candidates for vacant positions, so they’re casting a net beyond the traditional talent pool to include internationally educated professionals (newly arrived immigrants and foreigners recruited into specific jobs).

Maple Leaf Foods: Building a People Strategy to Align with Business Needs

By Jennifer Campbell

One of the keys to ensuring the success of Maple Leaf Food’s business strategy will be how the company uses and develops one of its critical assets: its people. In January 2011, the company coaxed one of Canada’s top HR professionals out of retirement to take on the task of aligning the restructuring plan with a people plan.

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HR 101: Improving the Bottom Line by Developing the Front Line

By Ian Turner

In our fast-changing business world, many companies are downsizing, rightsizing and in some cases even capsizing. The impact on the bottom line has never been more focused. Our customers want better quality products or services, they want them now and they want them for a very low cost—or they’ll go to some other provider who WILL meet their needs.

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SANDI HORNER: PURSUING HER PASSION FOR HR … AND HOCKEY

By Stephen Murdoch

For many Canadians, the sport of hockey runs deep through their veins. For Sandi Horner it is not only her passion, but also her livelihood. For 19 years, the human resources veteran has been walking the hallowed halls of the Scotiabank Place in Ottawa plying her skills to advance the interests of the hockey club off the ice. As director of people dpartment at Senators Sports & Entertainment, Horner gets to live out her childhood dream of working for a National Hockey League (NHL) team.

Benchmarking

The 10 Deadly Sins of Survey Benchmarking

By Paul Fairlie, Ph.D.

Employers want to know what their employees are thinking and feeling, and they often conduct employee surveys to find out. But they also want to know how they’re doing relative to other employers. Hence, the need for survey benchmarks. No doubt, benchmarks are a valuable source of contextual information. But they’re not without limitations, and should never be solely relied upon for decision-making.