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

Sample Job Description - Restaurant Manager

Sample Job Description for a Restaurant Manager

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.

Set Goals

Questions to Consider Before Hiring

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

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.

Act

Reference Check Form - Template

A quick and easy to use template when checking references for your potential new hire.

Strategize

Tips on Where to Find the Ideal Candidate

Tips on where to find the ideal candidate for your position.

Act

Candidate Interview Evaluation

Use this evaluation form to objectively assess and rate a candidate’s knowledge, skills, education and experiences relevant to the qualifications of the job that they are applying for.

Set Goals

Sample Job Description - Front Desk Agent

Sample Job Description for a Front Desk Agent

Set Goals

Sample Job Description - Bartender

Sample Job Description for a Bartender

Strategize

Creating a Job Posting

Tips to help you create the best job description to allow you to find the ideal candidate.

Set Goals

Preparing a Job description

How to prepare a job description.

Act

Conducting Reference Checks

Although most companies ask for references, few follow through on completing reference checks. To ensure you hire the best candidate for a position, checking references with previous Managers/Supervisors is strongly encouraged.

Act

Interview Questions Sample

Sample interview questions to help guide you when hiring.

Act

Selecting the Best Candidate

When the evaluation process is complete, you are ready to make a final hiring decision. Take time to review your shortlist of candidates. Evaluate each person’s performance throughout the recruitment process (interviews, reference checks, etc.), review the job description and requirements, consider the best fit for your current team.

Act

Replying to Unsuccessful Candidates

Once you have selected the successful candidate and they have signed back their offer of employment, you will need to follow up with the other candidates to let them know they were unsuccessful.

Set Goals

Sample Job Description - Cook

Sample Job Description for a Cook