by Mississauga Board of Trade | Apr 28, 2016 | Hiring, Human Resources, Uncategorized
By Marc Belaiche and Nicole Paloucci The workforce is constantly evolving and employees need to keep up with it. Temporary workers are on the rise, and even preferred by some employees. According to Statistics Canada, part-time jobs have increased by 2.3 times more...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Apr 5, 2016 | Hiring
By Jan van der Hoop If you want to create a successful company you’ve got to get one thing right – hiring. I caught an article over the weekend by Peter Diamandis (Abundance, Bold) about an interview he had led with Jeff Holden, the current Chief Product Officer...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Mar 3, 2016 | Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Uncategorized
By Jan van der Hoop One-third of all hiring decisions fail, according to management guru Peter Drucker. No other aspect of business would ever be allowed to tolerate such a high failure rate… why do we accept it as a given here? We must stop relying on hunches,...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Dec 10, 2015 | Best practices, Hiring, Human Resources, Uncategorized
By Jan van der Hoop Call it Lean, Kaizen, ISO, TQM, Continuous Improvement… after 25+ years of significant effort and umpteen variations, companies are still not benefiting from these operating principles as much as they could be. And they certainly don’t seem to be...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Nov 6, 2015 | Hiring, Human Resources, Uncategorized
By Jan van der Hoop Over the course of my career, I’ve had the privilege to work in a couple of organizations who had the courage and good sense to employ people with disabilities. My first such experience dates back to 1979 or 1980, at what was then the Hilton (now...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Oct 9, 2015 | Branding, Hiring
By Jan van der Hoop My wife and I had the great good fortune recently to join some friends on a trip to France and Spain. It had been a while since we were last in France and we were excited to be back, in spite of all the comments from others about watching out for...
