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 7, 2016 | Human Resources, Uncategorized, Workplace Safety
By Dianne Rende Because of their dramatic impact on survival rates and their incredible ease of use, more and more Automated External Defibrillator’s (AED) are popping up in public places as part of Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) Programs. Many workplaces...
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 | Feb 2, 2016 | Human Resources, Youth
By Jan van der Hoop We’re in the thick of it: the time of year when parents and their teenage kids are agonizing over choosing their universities and their majors. For some of us, the question of ‘what to be when I grow up’ never completely goes away, recurring at...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Jan 28, 2016 | Best practices, Business Learning, Human Resources, Training and development, Uncategorized
By Devin Kreuger Mississauga is home to world-class educational institutions. Are you taking full advantage of the resources they offer? I’ve written previously about how local businesses can access students looking for experiential learning experiences through co-op...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Jan 8, 2016 | Best practices, Human Resources, Leadership, Uncategorized
By Jan van der Hoop There’s another storm coming. I can feel it in my bones. I swear, it feels like the world is getting crazier every day. Between the fighting and the terrorism, H-bomb testing, China’s economy collapsing and the election run-up in the US, it’s...
