Conference preview: How Bayer CropScience created an internship program with a 99% satisfaction rate

By on May 7, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Case studies, Optimizing for Gen Y, Recruitment industry events

For many organizations, internships and co-op work terms are important not only for getting day-to-day work done but also for evaluating and preparing students for entry level roles, as well as building a strong employer brand on-campus. The key to achieving those goals is, of course, to provide a great experience, but it can be [...]

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5 campus recruitment lessons from PwC’s NextGen study

By on April 23, 2013 in Employer branding, Optimizing for Gen Y, What students want

At the end of last week, PwC released a comprehensive study on how millennials (those born between 1980 and 1995, for the purposes of the study – also known as Generation Y) view and impact the workplace. The firm says NextGen is the largest global generational study ever conducted, featuring the results of more than [...]

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Top 7 reasons to attend the 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Conference

By on April 9, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Recruitment industry events

The 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards and Conference event takes place in a little over a month and we – along with many others – are starting to get very egg-cited. There is plenty more egg-citement in store for the big day, too. Not sure what to expect? Here are the Top 7 [...]

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The relationship between recruitment and retention at TD Business Banking

By on April 1, 2013 in Case studies, Job boards, On-campus, Online

Over the last four years, Nancy Moulday has recruited, hired and onboarded 600 new TD Business Banking associates, and boasts a retention rate that would make any campus recruiter green with envy: 98.6%.

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Conference preview: Freedom 55 Financial’s Gen Y-focused recruiting program

By on March 25, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Case studies, Employer branding, Online, Optimizing for Gen Y

As Canada’s demographics continue to shift, and more and more Baby Boomers retire, employers will be forced to compete for a much smaller, much younger talent pool – Generation Y. Although an aging workforce has historically been a problem in natural resource industries like mining and oil and gas, the issue is becoming more prevalent [...]

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Social media for campus recruiting: #TEretail Retail Week Twitter chat

By on March 22, 2013 in Online, Optimizing for Gen Y, Social networks: Twitter

On Wednesday, TalentEgg hosted a Twitter chat about retail careers in the middle of our Retail Week, bringing employers and students together through a single hashtag: #TEretail 95 different Twitter accounts participated, generating more than 400 tweets with the #TEretail hashtag that reached 109,131 people, resulting in over 1.2 million impressions (source: TweetReach). With outcomes [...]

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