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Head hunters from Down Under
Geologists, engineers, mining professionals: Australian employers are in town today offering the moon — make that the sun – in an effort to lure you and your highly sought skills Down Under for a few...
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LGTB inclusion is good for business
Today (May 17) marks International Day against Homophobia, a date I was reminded of by several prominent Canadian business organizations that are doing some pretty progressive work to tackle the issue...
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English is common link for workers around the world
It’s an Anglo, Anglo world … The majority (67 per cent) of the workers around the globe whose job requires them to interact with people in other countries say English is their preferred language of...
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It pays to go to school
You’ve heard it from your parents, and BMO Bank of Montreal agrees: It pays to go to school. The bank released a report today showing a strong preference among Canadian employers to hire people with...
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Biking to work easier than ever
Gas prices getting you down? Maybe it’s time to pay some attention to another popular form of transportation: cycling. It’s Bike to Work Week this week, and those of you who choose the two-wheel...
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Office a rich source of bacteria
As I write this, I note that my own keyboard is stained with tea and remnants of lunches past – mainly in the form of bread crumbs — have fossilized in the tight spaces between the keys. Given that...
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Tips to fight the summertime slump
Having just returned from an early summer vacation, I know how difficult it can be to retrain my fuzzy brain to think about serious work and not TomKat’s divorce scandal. Fortunately, Chip Averwater,...
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Workers who witness bullying have strong urge to quit
For the many of you out there interested in the evolving topic of workplace bullying, I’m passing along the findings of an interesting new study out of the University of British Columbia’s Sauder...
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Canada needs more scientists
Canadians understand that the country needs more mathematicians, engineers and scientists, but it appears most of us just aren’t attracted to those particular fields of study. That’s the finding of a...
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Strangers on the bus (and why we like it that way)
Thanks to my colleague Daphne Bramham for bringing the following ground-breaking study to my attention: After three years, and presumably thousands of dollars, Esther Kim, a Yale University researcher,...
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Vancouver employers predict business boost in 2013: Survey
What would the new year be without a survey telling us who’s hiring and how much we can expect to be paid in 2013? Hays Canada, a national recruitment agency, obliged us with the data this year. And...
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Walmart to hire 100,000 former U.S. soldiers
Hands down, Lance Armstrong was the big public relations story this week. But retail giant Walmart did its best to grab some headlines of its own by announcing a huge recruitment drive aimed entirely...
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Work In Progress: One reporter’s quest to make sense of a shifting economy
So there we were. Four women in our early 30s brunching in the January sunlight at a popular vegetarian restaurant in east Vancouver, where we’d all lived for the last decade or so. Two of us (not me)...
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Work In Progress: Millennial anxiety reaches across generations
When I first conceived of my year-long project on the working world for the Calgary Herald’s Michelle Lang Fellowship, I have to admit, most of my proposal was based on a hunch. Through straw polls,...
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Work In Progress: Will income inequality lead to the collapse of...
A few weeks ago I sat in on a group of economists mulling over the causes of the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us. Distressingly, no one was really sure why the gap was growing, or how...
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Work In Progress: Plight of younger workers a political issue, says...
My recent post on the Broadbent Institute’s poll showing millennial job anxiety reaching across generations earned some attention from interesting sources. First, Yahoo Canada Finance called me up to...
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Work In Progress: Overqualified for your job? Statistics Canada says you’re...
We all know the one about the PhD slinging coffee at Startbucks or the MFA stocking shelves at Chapters, but just how widespread a problem is overqualification in Canada? A new report out Wednesday...
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Work In Progress: quality of jobs, not workers, at core of flawed foreign...
At this point, you’d have to actively try not to find controversy surrounding Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program. From its inception, the system invented to bring workers from outside the...
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Work In Progress: Dignity and the hiring process
Boy did last week’s stories on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program ever get a lot of reaction, including, but not limited to: McDonald’s Canada pulling out of the program (temporarily, of course, and...
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Work In Progress Explainer: Do kids these days really have it harder?
You know when you find yourself putting off a chore that will inevitably improve your life because, well, it’s just complicated and daunting? This post is that chore. For the better part of a year now,...
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