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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn about an uncommon but very effective way to search for a job! Are you working with someone like Afshan to find your next great opportunity?
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The digital transformation is not only changing the way companies do business, it’s also changing the way they use talent to get it done.
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The future of work isn't so far away anymore - in fact, we're already working in it.
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn how to use your skill sets to search for a job you're qualified for. Are you working with someone like Afshan to find your next great opportunity?
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The Kardashians have nothing on technology – because keeping up with its rapid advancements is infinitely more interesting if you want to stay ahead in the workforce.
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The holiday season is known for melting away the winter blues – with people from all over the world using the month of December to re-energize and spend time with family and friends. But what isn’t al...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn about the motivating factors that you should consider before applying to a job. Are you working with someone like Hamza to find your next great oppo...
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If all you want for Christmas is a contract in the new year, that's a gift you can give yourself this holiday season.
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Entering the gig economy can be a highly rewarding business strategy -- yet, organizations that do so without the proper governance measures in place or fail to collect the necessary onboarding docume...
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It’s a tight labour market, and both Canadian and U.S. organizations are grappling with the challenges presented by a candidate controlled workforce. When there was once very little perceived pressur...
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Everyone knows pencils come with erasers because people make mistakes, but resumes aren’t written with pencils. And when recruiters receive an average of 250 resumes per corporate job post, yours can'...
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They go by many different titles: contingent workers, gig employees, freelancers, contractors, but regardless of naming, they all serve the same purpose: providing organizations with flexible, skilled...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday to learn how you can keep organized during your job search. Are you working with someone like Andrea to find your next great opportunity?
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It doesn’t matter how talented your workers are or what tech training they’ve taken - because obsolescence is overtaking the workforce.
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As organizations around the world struggle to overcome workforce challenges created by emerging technologies and shifting demographics, employers doing business in Canada are also re-examining the tra...
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Leveraging a contingent workforce in today’s business landscape is a risky but rewarding strategy. With the velocity of emerging technologies, skills gaps in the workforce, shifts in employment attitu...
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Thirty-five years ago, the possibility of Artificial Intelligence gave rise to the worst type of science fiction fear: An independently thinking machine created to dominate and destroy human kind.
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Amid the rise of the gig economy, more and more organizations are turning to non-traditional workers to quickly and efficiently reach their corporate goals -- so much so that 40 per cent of the U.S. w...
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When onboarding an independent contractor, organizations must classify aspects of the contingent worker relationship to ensure compliance with the correct tax and employment laws. Misclassification of...
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Treats for tricks are never a guarantee, and tasteless tricks can be downright poisonous—especially when it comes to your job search.
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It's a candidate's market. And they're being selective in their search. With unemployment rates at the lowest organizations on both sides of the border have seen in decades, the number of open jobs i...
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Even the most qualified of candidates can feel the pressure of a hiring manager's questions when sitting in the hot seat. And before you get to ask some of your own, you must impress with artful answe...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn all about setting negotiation expectations. Are you working with someone like Milos to find your next great opportunity?
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Recruiting, hiring and training new employees is arguably one of the most critical aspects to an organization’s success, and the cost of onboarding the wrong fit is an expensive one -- about 30 per ce...
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As the workforce continues to evolve, and the workplace along with it, it only makes sense that the way in which candidates search for - and apply to - jobs has also seen a shift in employer expectat...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn how fidgeting during your job interview will affect your candidacy. Are you working with someone like Fionne to find your next great opportunity?
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Procom partners with ChangeDriver™ to bring master practitioner certification courses in change management nation-wide. Four-day change management courses launch in Ottawa, Canada November, 2019.
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The interview stage of any job search is probably the most nerve racking of the entire process-- even for the most experienced or qualified of candidates. And although it's true that job interviews ar...
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When you’re throwing your candidacy into the employment ring, you can expect to go round for round with the best of the best, and your resume is what’s going to be fighting the first round one.
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday to learn about why you should probably pause before you boast about a job on social media. Are you working with someone like Daria to find your next great opportun...
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Regardless of how it's sugar coated, job search rejection has a tendency to leave a lingering taste of defeat. And that isn't conducive to confidence.
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There’s an increasing velocity of change happening all around us. As emerging technologies and customer expectations force organizations to face faster, more complex and cross functional change than e...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn how to hone your personal brand during your job search. Are you working with someone like Hamza to find your next great opportunity?
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Waves of hiring surges have brought fierce competition back to the job market – for employers. Candidates now have the upper hand in choosing how and where
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Measurement is what makes marketing a science, rather than a superstition. We live in an ever-evolving world, and the fast-paced staffing industry is no different. Advances in technology have made har...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn what to have handy during a telephone interview. Are you working with someone like Afshan to find your next great opportunity?
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It's a candidate controlled market, and skilled workers can afford to be choosy in deciding how and where they want to work. However, even the most talented of professionals will find it difficult to ...
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In today’s business climate, where supply is down and demand is up, it’s a fierce struggle for organizations competing to engage skilled talent. And strategies that worked years ago won’t be as succes...
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Engaging temporary talent can be a risky but rewarding business for companies who operate a contingent worker program. Organizations that are tapping into the temporary talent pool have unprecedented ...
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So, you’ve beaten the bots and impressed during your in-person interview, but once you’ve successfully taken on the hiring battle, you still have to win the performance war. Your previous experience m...
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The Canadian gig economy is growing at an extraordinary rate and shows no signs of slowing down. Yet, engaging contingent talent is risky business. As an organization’s use of contingent workers incre...
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A younger wave of talent is crashing the workforce. For the past decade, millennials (born between 1981-1996) have transformed the way organizations engage the modern-minded worker. They currently com...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn the importance of not burning bridges if you don't get the gig. Are you working with someone like Milos to find your next great opportunity?
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Today’s workforce is a wild world. Organizations operating on both sides of the border are experiencing record low employment rates--it's been decades since there's been an economy where the number of...
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Hiring has been hard in 2019. As organizations grapple to win the war for talent, Canada's labour shortage intensifies, with almost 400,000 positions left vacant. The workforce ecosystem has dramatica...
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If you were to discover that traditional job boards are visited by active job seekers who account for only 30 per cent of the entire global workforce, would that change your recruitment strategy? Beca...
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A promise to scrap many workplace reforms has been kept to business owners employing full-time and contingent workers in Ontario. The Government of Ontario passed a sweeping labour reform legislation ...
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The contingent workforce continues to challenge talent markets on both sides of the border, yet the many advantages that come with contingent workers makes temporary talent critical in order for an or...
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For over two decades, the ‘war for talent’ is still making headlines—ever since Steve Hankin coined the term in 1997 and McKinsey wrote the book by the same name. Yet, more than 20 years later, the fi...
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Thirty three per cent of hiring managers admit to mentally dismissing candidates within the first 90 seconds of meeting them, and their decision isn't dependent on experience or qualifications. A res...
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They go by many different titles: contingent workers, gig employees, freelancers, consultants and contractors, but regardless of naming, they all serve the same purpose in providing organizations with...
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The U.S. gig economy isn't going anywhere, and to remain competitive, employers are increasingly turning to non-traditional workers to fill open positions created by educational gaps, global competiti...
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Even the best talent organizations can struggle when it comes to launching an enterprise-wide direct sourcing program. Although most efforts are well founded, some businesses may struggle with the ass...
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Watch this week's Career tip Tuesday video and learn all about how timing can be everything! When arriving to your job interview, here's when you should plan on arriving. Are you working with someone...
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Every organization is responsible for managing the payroll of its employees and contract workers: tracking and reporting each employee’s wages, bonuses, and all deductions, as well as active support f...
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In today’s competitive business climate, organizations need an agile workforce that can execute strategies and achieve corporate goals quickly and efficiently. Yet, employers must also be responsible ...
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It’s a new era of talent acquisition. As candidates continue to drive the current workforce environment, organizations are turning to a more agile approach when competing to engage contingent workers....
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The final stage in cementing any business relationship is contract negotiation. Whether you're entering the contingent workforce, becoming a full-time employee or re-negotiating a pre-existing agreem...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn how to resist sending multiple applications for the same job. Are you working with someone like Courtney to find your next great opportunity?
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You know who they are. They’re the odd ones. They’re the envelope-pushing thinkers who refuse to accept money, position or stability as their status quo. They create, innovate and push forward on path...
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It's a candidate's market. And they're being selective in their search.
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Hiring can be hard right now. In the current candidate driven market—where niche talent is only available for an average of 10 days—acquiring qualified contingent workers is tougher than ever. And man...
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The recruitment landscape is constantly changing. A demand for critical skills, the rise of young talent and a shift in hiring attitudes towards employment have forced organizations to update their ta...
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Ghosting is a thing. And employers are experiencing what it’s like being broken up with via radio silence.
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A demand for critical skills, the rise of young talent and a shift in attitudes towards employment have forced organizations to update their recruitment strategies to reflect this environment in order...
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With current low employment rates, supply is down and demand is up, driving both enterprise-level organizations and small businesses to compete for workers qualified to fill skill gaps created by emer...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn the importance of saving your resume as a word document rather than a .PDF. Are you working with someone like Maria to find your next great opportun...
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Non-verbal communication is a social language understood on a global scale, and it talks a lot louder than words. Because body language shows what we don’t tell, and an observant interviewer will reco...
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Hiring is one of the most crucial steps an organization faces when building for success, and hiring the wrong people can have a detrimental effect on any business - wasting time, money and resources.
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video to learn about how to avoid application fatigue during your job search. Are you working with someone like Courtney to find your next great opportunity?
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The cost of a bad hire is more than an inconvenience to employers and their hiring teams; the true cost is a risk to an entire organization. The U.S. Department of Labor finds the cost of a bad hire i...
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In today’s highly competitive business climate, strategic organizations must harness resources that can quickly and cost effectively bring on-demand talent into their workforce. Similarly, when peak w...
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Sometimes on a job search, even the most qualified of candidates can be oblivious to the obvious when it comes to socially acceptable behaviours. A resume acts as a candidate's professional first impr...
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While AI applications and recruiting seem like a natural fit, real world experience is proving the combination might not be quite ready for prime time. Reuters news service reported last week that sh...
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Thirty-five years ago, the possibility of Artificial Intelligence gave rise to the worst type of science fiction fear: an independently thinking machine created to dominate and destroy human kind. N...
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Who's got skills? Recruiters only spend up to seven seconds scanning a resume when sourcing niche talent, and if the skills they’re looking for aren’t jumping off the page, there’s a good chance you w...
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Watch this week's Career tip Tuesday video and get insights into your social media profile photos during your job search! Are you working with someone like Courtney to find your next great opportunity...
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Watch this week's Career Tip Tuesday video about workplace collaborations! Are you working with someone like Charles to find your next great opportunity?
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Sticks and stones can break your bones but words can also hurt your job search. An average corporate job opening will attract about 250 resumes, and a job seeker has only up to seven seconds to entice...
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Procom Group of Companies named as one of Allegis Global Solutions (AGS) 2019 Strategic Partners for Managed Services
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Preparing for the job interview is one of the most crucial steps in any job search. Demonstrating that you've researched the role, the company and people working there indicates your interest in the o...
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There are a lot of moving parts involved in the job search process, and many of them are moving on two feet. Yet, they don't just include candidates you're competing against or senior decision makers ...
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The social scene has changed. And the work world has evolved with it. In the not too distant past, organizations operating on both sides of the border had the upper hand when hiring. Yet, times have c...
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If you don't get the gig, it can be hard not to dwell when your candidacy gets declined; however, there are other factors employers consider beyond your experience that influence their hiring decision...
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When you're sitting down with a hiring manager, it can often feel more like you're settling into a game of black jack rather than a job interview. Because hiring managers tend to hold their cards pret...
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Metrics are powerful tools -- and they're critical to managing and optimizing your contract workforce program, yet the data doesn’t automatically convert to better results. Whether you're tracking the...
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Talent is an organization’s greatest asset, and in most cases, its greatest expense. In today’s tight labour market, the power in employment dynamics has changed, and the best talent is increasingly ...
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Advances in technology are disrupting the way organizations do business-- dictating how companies drive revenue, engage customers, structure internal processes, engage candidates and manage their work...
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The social scene changed in the early 2000's. Personal space became My Space. And then faces became Facebook; small talk turned into tweeting and networking developed into LinkedIn… And although Linke...
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Today's gig economy has turned the tables on hiring managers. With more open jobs than there are skilled workers to fill them, candidates now have the upper hand in choosing how and where they want to...
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While AI applications and recruiting seem like a natural fit, real world experience is proving the combination might not be quite ready for prime time. Reuters news service reported last week that Ama...
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More often than not, the reason for your resume rebuff is a little robot called an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and its parser feature. When you're looking for a job, its job is to locate and separ...
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Skills. Tech jobs tend to require a particular set of them. And when a perspective employer is looking for specific on-paper proficiencies, you can't simply Liam Niessan your way out of such situation...
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Resume writing is a serious business. And when you're applying to businesses you want to work for, your resume needs to impress as your professional first impression. An average corporate job opening ...
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When your resume has beaten the bots and scored you an in-person interview, the initial face-to-face at the front desk may seem like an insignificant part of the whole interview process. But when it ...
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Once you've beaten the bots and impressed during your in-person interview, it's time to tackle the performance part of employment. Because what you do will definitely come under review. For some indep...
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Internet sleuthing is a serious business. And if you’re in the business of becoming employed, you'll want to slip into the role of digital detective and Sherlock Holmes the businesses you're applying ...
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Cannabis legalization is coming to Canada. And for some parts of the United States, it’s already here.
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A resume is more than on-paper-proof of your technical skills and previous experience. It's also your professional first impression, and when a recruiter receives an average of 250 resumes per corpora...
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Recruiters and hiring managers are creeps. Because a recent study found 93 per cent are using social media in their sourcing process to creep qualified talent where they're hanging out online. Unsurpr...
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Confidence. It's that intangible certainty. You can't physically touch it, but you know it's there when someone has it. Because those who do, tend to grab your attention. And then keep it. When meeti...
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When prepping for potential employment, a well-crafted resume is an impressive first impression, but how you handle the hiring manager(s) will determine if there’s a second encounter. Preparing for a ...
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There are certain expectations attached to a resume. Because a recruiter will only spend up to seven seconds scanning one for the qualifications they're looking for before it's dismissed. And they exp...
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Procom ranks #1 on Branham Group’s Top 10 Canadian ICT Staffing Companies for another consecutive year
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When it comes to recruitment, hiring managers aren't always looking for the black and white, perfect-on-paper candidates. Because forward-thinking hiring managers know that an organization's future su...
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Information ensures informed decisions. And when you’re attempting to obtain inside intel on a potential employer, a savvy job seeker can get the goods from the outside. It's 2018, and digital sleut...
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Here’s the thing about being different: it's a good thing. And in certain circumstance, like when you’re on a contract quest or searching for full-time work, it can be a very good thing. Because stand...
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Today marks National Cheeseburger day! Building the perfect, mouth-watering, taste-bud tingling, just-need-to-bite-into burger doesn't just happen. It's a strategic labour of love. Because when one is...
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When it comes to professional encounters of the first kind, you’ve got less than two minutes to impress before you’re silently dismissed. Because Hiring Managers admit to knowing within the first 90 s...
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Procom Group of Companies NAMED ONE OF CANADA'S BEST MANAGED COMPANIES Procom wins prestigious award for 11th consecutive year
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Thanksgiving. It’s a time honoured tradition, typically observed through mouthfuls of turkey and thankful declarations for life’s gratitudes. And when you’re on a job search, there’s a lot to be thank...
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Feedback. It’s the stuff staffing dreams are made of. Because when a recruiter is riding shotgun on your road to employment, interview feedback is like the smooth cement poured over every rut, bump an...
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It's true that unprofessional behavior can kill your career chances faster than a bad instalment can massacre an awesome franchise—remember rushing to the theater for Jason X?
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Procom ranks #1 on Branham Group’s Top 10 Canadian ICT Staffing Companies for another consecutive year
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Kent McCrea wins the National Capital’s Top Forty Under 40 Award
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Procom wins Inavero's 2017 Best Of Staffing® Client and Talent award!
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By 2020, the tech-savvy, hyper-connected Gen Y population will make up 50 per cent of the workforce —but they’re not alone. Another 80 per cent of Gen Xers and 70 per cent of Boomers are also online.
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