Recruitment

Recruit Right the First Time

Whether you manage a few employees or hundreds, you need to find the right combination of attitude and skills, to strengthen your organization's culture, sense of team and bottom line.

The reality is if you are struggling to fill immediate needs and vacant positions just to keep your business running, it can be very difficult to find the right people. It’s critical to plan your recruitment steps in advance.

Consider all available labour pools when searching for talent. Always prioritize local and regional workers particularly under-represented groups.

These include:

  • Indigenous, First Nation, Metis and Inuit persons
  • Youth
  • Newcomers
  • Women
  • Persons with Disabilities

Having exhausted all local labour options, sometimes we must look outside of your provincial and even national borders.

Career fairs and recruitment missions, domestic and international, can be very effective activities to assist in finding the talent you need to effectively maintain and grow your operations.

Create a Recruitment Plan

Set Goals
  • Determine your recruitment goals, develop; your strategy, review your job description and job postings, or create them if they don’t exist.
Strategize
  • Consider people-finding strategies and explore options and labour pools that you may not have previously considered.
Act
  • Hone your interview techniques, and follow through with all candidates, from the job application stage to make an offer.

Set Goals

Preparing a Job description

How to prepare a job description.

Act

Employment Interview Guidelines

This is a guide on how to conduct an interview including interview questions.

Set Goals

Questions to Consider Before Hiring

List of questions to consider before hiring to fill a position.

Set Goals

Sample Job Description - Bartender

Sample Job Description for a Bartender

Act

Offering Employment

After selecting the best candidate, you need to make a job offer. A verbal job offer should be followed by a formal written employment offer to ensure that you and the candidate are fully aware of the terms and conditions of employment.

Act

Interviewing

Making a hiring decision is an important decision. It is easy to hire a less-than-ideal candidate to fill an urgent or critical position during a busy working season, thinking they will do for now, but it can be a costly mistake. Therefore, it is important that employers exercise due diligence when hiring staff.

Set Goals

Sample Job Description - Cook

Sample Job Description for a Cook

Set Goals

Sample Job Description - Front Desk Agent

Sample Job Description for a Front Desk Agent

Set Goals

Sample Job Description - Restaurant Manager

Sample Job Description for a Restaurant Manager