Tag Archives | entry-level recruiting

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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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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Conference recap: How To Retain Top Co-op Students by CGI's Leah Wilson

By on May 25, 2012 in Awards and Conference

Leah Wilson, Manager, Recruitment at CGI, focused on the “work” aspect of retaining top co-op students in her presentation, delving deep into what makes students want to stay at an organization – and what makes them want to leave. Follow @2recruityou It turns out that the reasons aren’t so different. With all the fuss being [...]

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Gen Y Recruitment Insider: Behind the scenes with Nancy Moulday at TD Business Banking

By on July 6, 2011 in Case studies, Job boards, On-campus, Recruitment industry events

Did you miss our Gen Y Recruitment Insider event last week? Don’t worry. We’ve summarized the top tips from our first two Gen Y Recruitment Insider presentations. Check out the main messages from Nancy Moulday’s presentation, where she shared some of the most successful tried, tested and true recruitment strategies – as well as the [...]

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Photos – Gen Y Recruitment Insider: Behind the Scenes with MasterCard and TD Business Banking

By on July 5, 2011 in Case studies, Recruitment industry events

Last Thursday, TalentEgg hosted the first event in our Gen Y Recruitment Insider series, featuring presentations from TD Business Banking and MasterCard. The Gen Y Recruitment Insider series by TalentEgg is designed to give Canadian recruitment professionals an inside look at the most successful Gen Y focused recruitment and branding campaigns executed by their peers. [...]

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Poll results: When do students look for entry level jobs?

By on June 2, 2011 in On-campus, Online, What students want

TalentEgg has long suspected that there is a discrepancy between when students look for entry-level jobs and when employers are recruiting and hiring for the majority of their entry-level jobs, however the results of our latest poll confirm it. We asked students and recent graduates: When did you or will you start searching for your [...]

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Signals of potential, the AMS elections and Tyler Turnbull

By on January 24, 2011 in Case studies

As I browsed through my Twitter feed yesterday morning, a tweet about my alma mater, Queen’s, came through, and I was compelled to click because it mentioned, a) a Cee-Lo parody, and b) the AMS (student council) elections. The Twitter link took me to an article called “Who casts the first stone…“, highlighting a hilarious [...]

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Recent grads are the silver lining

By on December 24, 2008 in Uncategorized

If your network of family and friends is anything like mine, it has undoubtedly been affected by the current economic situation. While catching up with family over the holidays, I’ve heard a handful of stories from some who have already been laid off and others who are crossing their fingers while co-workers with less seniority [...]

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Employers and students: Not N'Sync

By on October 23, 2008 in Uncategorized

Yes, this is quite possibly the corniest blog title…ever…But never mind that! A few observations on the disconnect between employers and students in Canada: In our day-to-day dealing with employers and students, we’ve had the opportunity to pick up on a lot of trends in the entry-level recruitment market. One that particularly stands out, and [...]

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