recruitment

Even robots are a little bit racist: Al bias in recruitment

November 14, 2018 Lisa Stam, Spring Law Employee Relations, HR and Technology, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Recruiting and Hiring

How would you like to perform only the most high-level and uniquely human elements of your job? Are your skills really best utilized on data entry, rote memorization and pushing paper? Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to delegate all the drudgery of your job to machines while freeing you up to mingle with clients on the golf course and answer phone calls from your private yacht in the Adriatic Sea.

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Social media and recruitment

May 9, 2018 Lisa Stam, Spring Law HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Payroll, Privacy and Security, Recruiting and Hiring, Wages and Compensation

Social media is now a part of our lives, including our work lives. While it can be an important tool, employers need to use their good judgment and use it wisely.

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HR practitioners: The new HR mandate

March 7, 2017 Deveen Hunter Employee Relations, HR Analytics, HR and Technology, HR Policies and Procedures, HRMS, Human Resources, Privacy and Security, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development

The trend toward chaos and fear not only exists within the context of politics and social issues, it is also a business or an organizational issue. Albeit for entirely different reasons, businesses are nervous and looking for solutions. A survey of Canadian CEOs revealed that they are concerned about many things; herein the top worries are listed.

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The AODA Employment Standards: Are you meeting the new requirements?

January 30, 2017 Fred Stewart Accessibility Standards, Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Integrated Accessibility Regulation, Recruiting and Hiring, Standard for Employment, Standard for Information and Communications, Training and Development

We know that the AODA employment standards requirements are demanding because we have heard about the challenges from those organizations with 50+ employees that were obligated to comply in January 2016. Smaller employers with fewer resources may need additional assistance to keep track of the project, including reviewing, updating and implementing many HR forms and documents such as job offers, employment contracts, job postings and applications to ensure they are consistent with the new accessibility standards.

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Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk

February 5, 2015 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Accessibility Standards, Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Integrated Accessibility Regulation, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Privacy and Security, Recruiting and Hiring, Standard for Employment, Training and Development, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation

Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with the disclosure of mental illness and a breach of employee privacy; the notice period and duty to mitigate; and, inducement, recruitment and reasonable notice.

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HR – Think and act like a marketer: Segment your data to fuel evidence-based workforce decisions

September 23, 2014 PeopleInsight Workforce Analytics Employee Relations, HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development

Companies spend a great deal of time, money, and resources to understand, target, recruit and retain customers. They approach these tasks with rigour and rely on data and analytics as the key input to decision-making. It’s time we took the same approach with the company’s most important asset – the employees.

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What is the next step in AODA compliance? The Employment Standard

May 9, 2014 Stringer LLP Accessibility Standards, Employee Relations, Health and Safety, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Integrated Accessibility Regulation, Privacy and Security, Recruiting and Hiring, Standard for Employment, Training and Development

The AODA Employment Standard deadlines are not as far away as they may seem. The Employment Standard is one of five accessibility standards under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. It outlines accessibility requirements employers must meet throughout the employment life-cycle.

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Use of Kijiji in jobs report highlights its unreliability as a recruitment source

April 9, 2014 Henry J. Chang, Dentons LLP Corporate Immigration, Employee Relations, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

On February 11, 2014, Finance Canada released its 54-page “Jobs Report” alongside the Federal Budget. In that report, the Canadian Government claimed that Canada’s job vacancy rate had been “increasing steadily since 2009.” However, this claim was challenged by economists, who noted that Statistics Canada’s own figures proved it was declining. It was later concluded that the problem related to the Canadian Government’s use of data that included Kijiji job postings. In light of this development, employers that wish to advertise jobs in connection with the filing of a Labour Market Opinion application should avoid the use of free websites such Kijiji or Craigslist.

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Breaking the traditions!!! from recruitment metrics to talent acquisition analytics

December 20, 2013 PeopleInsight Workforce Analytics Employee Relations, HR Analytics, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

At this time of year, we are reminded of many things – one of which is that traditions are everywhere… culturally, personally, in-business and life-at-large. Even though traditions are tremendously important to us and for our families, we sometimes need to break the old, and create new! Which is what I suggest with the way you might have been measuring, tracking and managing your recruitment and talent acquisition activities.

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Understanding top talent

November 26, 2013 PeopleInsight Workforce Analytics HR Analytics, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development

When I hear people talk about top talent, I get reminded of the elusive (and sometimes voodoo) experiences that I had in the past in corporate environments when identifying top talent.
I have to say, it always conjures up memories both good and bad.

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Three of the most popular articles this week on HRinfodesk

November 21, 2013 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Employee Relations, Human Resources, Privacy and Security, Recruiting and Hiring

Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with privacy in the workplace, using social media in recruiting and managing and the enactment of a Bill to make the Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario a regulatory body.

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Ontario Human Rights Commission releases policy on removing the “Canadian experience” barrier

July 16, 2013 Simon Heath, BA, MIR, LLB, Heath Law Corporate Immigration, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, International HR Law, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development

On July 15, 2013, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (“OHRC”) released its Policy on Removing the “Canadian Experience” Barrier (the “Policy”) barrier. The purpose of the Policy is to address the fact that new immigrants, with university educations and/or work experience, are denied opportunities for jobs or career advancement because they lack “Canadian Experience” (i.e. Canadian based work experience) and their foreign educational qualification or work experience are not recognized.

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Disruption in talent acquisition (recruitment) – three little secrets

July 15, 2013 PeopleInsight Workforce Analytics Employee Relations, HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

It’s an exciting time in the human capital business… and more specifically, in the business of both acquiring the right talent, and in driving effectiveness of that talent once they cross the threshold of your organization’s door as an employee.

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eHarmony online dating site will be matching job applicants with employers – Is that a good idea?

May 10, 2013 Christina Catenacci Employee Relations, Human Resources, Human Rights, Recruiting and Hiring

The media has reported that the online dating website eHarmony will be entering the recruiting business—matching employers with people looking for a job. Beginning first in the United States likely in June 2013, and soon thereafter in Canada, eHarmony plans to use its matching technology used to pair singles looking for love matches in a different way—it plans to help find the perfect employment union. That is, eHarmony will be using its technology to create the perfect harmony between job candidates and employers. How successful will this venture be, and will it change how employers find new employees?

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RBC’s temporary foreign worker debacle

April 22, 2013 Occasional Contributors Corporate Immigration, Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

In the wake of the RBC’s temporary foreign worker debacle, and Prime Minister Harper’s temporary foreign worker program reform, what are the implications of outsourcing Canadian jobs in favour of temporary foreign workers? The implications for Canadian workers and recruitment are telling.

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