by Adwoa K. Buahene | May 22, 2024 | General
Mentoring programs have been widely used to help equity-denied individuals to either find roles or to advance their careers. ‘Women in Leadership’ programs have a mentoring component. Newcomers participate in mentoring programs that focus on understanding the Canadian...
by webworld | Apr 9, 2024 | General
Yes they are, unless organizations pay close attention to how they function and how recruiters are using them. Applicant tracking systems (ATS) are software that human resource departments use to process volumes of resumes submitted for job openings. ATSs certainly...
by webworld | Feb 16, 2024 | General
Adwoa K. Buahene is chief executive officer of the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council. She is the Leadership Lab columnist for October, 2020. Many of us know that immigration is a key driver of Canada’s population and economic growth, with immigrants...
by Adwoa K. Buahene | Feb 16, 2024 | General
Recent discussions on inclusion continue to remind us that women, racialized people and many other diversity groups are underrepresented in senior management and leadership positions. As Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council 2019 (TRIEC) research shows, that...
by Adwoa K. Buahene | Feb 16, 2024 | General
Canadian employers continue to struggle to fill their, labour shortages, with 53 per cent of small and medium-sized organizations (which make up 99.7 per cent of Canadian businesses) citing difficulty in finding qualified employees as the reason they will not be...
by Adwoa K. Buahene | Feb 16, 2024 | General
In a recent LinkedIn post that quickly went viral, Carlie Bush, vice-president of HR at Global Medical Response, shared a story about an unexpected interruption to a virtual job interview she was conducting. The candidate’s young child woke up early from her nap,...
