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A vision for a healthy campus recruitment ecosystem in Canada

By on June 13, 2013 in Recruitment industry events, What students want

As Canada’s population ages and Baby Boomers retire, healthy campus recruiting and retention will play an increasingly crucial role in balancing our labour issues and growing Canada’s economy. At the 2013 CACEE National Conference in Edmonton on June 10th, 2013, TalentEgg founder Lauren Friese presented her vision for the future of attraction, recruitment and retention [...]

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Executives warn competition for financial services talent is intensifying

By on June 11, 2013 in Employer branding

The labour market isn’t just competitive for job seekers anymore – while Canada’s unemployment rate continues to decline, many employers are also struggling with recruiting and retaining highly skilled financial services employees. According to the Robert Half Global Survey Report on Financial Services Hiring Environment, 89% of financial services executives say it is challenging to find [...]

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TalentEgg’s 2013 On-Campus Recruiting Report

By on June 3, 2013 in Career fairs, Information sessions, On-campus, Swag, What students want

Planning your on-campus recruiting initiatives for the fall? TalentEgg’s new On-Campus Recruiting Report features survey results from top Canadian post-secondary students and recent graduates about their on-campus recruitment habits and preferences that will help you make the most of the increasingly limited time and resources at your disposal. We asked students and recent graduates to [...]

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Photos from the 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards and Conference

By on May 30, 2013 in Awards and Conference

If you attended the 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards and Conference on May 14th, you may have noticed a photographer snapping photos throughout the day, capturing presentations, networking breaks, award winners and much more on camera. The photos from the entire day are embedded in a slideshow below. Looks like everyone had an [...]

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What students want: 4 elements of an engaging campus career website

By on May 23, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Campus career website, Employer branding, Online, What students want

Your campus career website is like the virtual front door to your organization and, like a home, it needs some serious curb appeal to get students and grads interested in what you’re selling: your career opportunities.

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Conference recap: International best practices in digital and online campus recruitment

By on May 22, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Campus career website, Employer branding, Online, Video

Bringing his extensive global experience back to Toronto, Tyler Turnbull shared his recommendations for best practices in digital and online campus recruitment, and also provided a few examples of incredible employer branding campaigns from The British Army and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Tweets, photos, videos and links from Tyler’s presentation embedded below: [View [...]

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2013 TalentEgg Campus Recruitment Awards: Finalists, best practices and winners

By on May 15, 2013 in Awards and Conference, What students want

On May 14, TalentEgg founder Lauren Friese revealed the winners of the 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards to a few hundred campus recruiters, human resources professionals and career services staff during an awards ceremony held at the Arcadian Loft in downtown Toronto. She also shared some of the best practices for each of the [...]

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Top 10 tips for tweeting from your next campus recruitment conference

By on May 1, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Social networks: Twitter

Record numbers of campus recruiters have started actively using Twitter in 2013, both to reach students and new graduates, and to stay connected with other professionals, vendors, news and insights from within the campus recruitment industry. Many of you will also live tweet from a conference for the first time this year, perhaps at the [...]

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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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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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