TorontoJobs.ca Employer Newsletter

September 2007

Welcome to the September 2007 edition of the TorontoJobs.ca Employers Newsletter.

What our Clients Are Saying…

25 Ways to Ensure a Successful New Employee Orientation, An Article by TorontoJobs.ca

Skill Shortages Are Here: How Are You Going to Fill the Gap?, An Article by WES Services

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What our Clients Are Saying…

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Thanks to the continued quality of our clients, TorontoJobs.ca has become the #1 online Job Board in the Greater Toronto Area. Below you will find some appreciated feedback from our current clients… the results speak for themselves:

"We are a larger recruitment specialist company in the Toronto area. After trying TorontoJobs.ca we'd far prefer working with your website more than your competitors any day" C.B.

"We're a small to medium sized company specializing in car accessories. We got a great response and found some good candidates through TorontoJobs.ca. The website proved to be very beneficial and we'll definitely be calling TorontoJobs.ca for all future postings." A Local Toronto Company

"As an owner of a medium sized construction company we are constantly looking for skilled labour. After 2 weeks, we've already hired a couple of people thanks to TorontoJobs.ca. TorontoJobs.ca will be the first phone call we make next time we need to fill some positions." W.B.

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25 Ways to Ensure a Successful New Employee Orientation
An Article by TorontoJobs.ca

Introduction

You’ve just spent days, weeks or months screening, interviewing and hiring a new employee.

What your company does between the time your employment offer is accepted and the time the successful candidate completes their first week on the job will lay the foundation for a successful or not successful long-term relationship for that employee with your company.

Some companies do very little to prepare for a new employee while others realize that this is a great opportunity to show the new employee that they are cared about.

This article covers 25 relatively simple ways to help make sure your new employee feels at home as quickly as possible.

Before They Start

1. Call the Employee

Call the employee one or two business days before their start date to let them know that you’re excited to have them start, and remind them the hours, parking arrangements, dress code, schedule and/or anything else that might be relevant to their start date.

2. Ensure supplies are available

Make sure that they have all the supplies required on their desk.

The employer article section is designed for employers to gain a wealth of information from Employment Lawyers, Human Rights Advisors, and many more. To view additional articles please
click here to visit our Career Resource Centre.

Skill Shortages Are Here: How Are You Going to Fill the Gap?
An Article by WES Services

Global Context, Local Realities
In a globalized marketplace, demand for skilled workers is already becoming highly competitive and will only become more intense. Canada must maximize the talents and innovations of its existing workforce. The shortage of skilled workers coupled with an aging workforce make the challenge of meeting labour demands even more pressing. The Conference Board of Canada predicts 1 million job vacancies in the next 20 years and the skills shortages will be particularly acute in areas such as healthcare and teaching. In fact, within the next 5 years, all of Ontario’s net new labour force growth will come from immigration and this opportunity needs to be tapped into, if your organization is to continue growing with the times.

Newcomers to Canada
In 2006, over 138,000 people with post secondary education arrived in Canada - an annual figure that has remained constant over the past decade according to Statistics Canada. Indeed, Canadian employers’ access to a robust skilled workforce through immigration is one competitive advantage over those in other countries. Yet many highly educated and skilled immigrants face limited employment prospects after arriving in Canada, partly because employers are stuck trying to understand foreign credentials in Canadian terms. RBC Financial Group’s 2005 economic case for diversity reports the cost of not fully integrating immigrants in the workplace adds up to billions in lost wages, productivity and output. They estimate that if foreign trained workers were successfully integrated into the Canadian workforce, personal incomes would be about $13 billion higher each year than at present (www.rbc.com/economics).

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