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WORKWEST.ca® News story regarding the Saskatoon Career Caravan in May 2010. |
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WORKWEST.ca® is featured in the CBC Television Series Fortune Hunters. (Season 2 - Episode 2) |
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“News Talk 650 CKOM" Saskatoon Career Caravan "Estevan's marketing coordinator Kevin D'Souza sees the Workwest job fair as offering a better shot at attracting better workers. "You probably meet the more driven ones at such places rather than just websites and newspaper advertisements," |
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“Discover Estevan" Saskatoon Career Caravan "This is the first time that the TTC has appeared at this job fair... Development Manager Michel Cyrenne says "the national job fairs has been successful as many businesses in Estevan continue to get resumes from many applicants from Eastern Canada." |
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“Business View Magazine" Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce "For a number of years, the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce has been an avid partner of the WORKWEST Career Caravan job fairs. Held across Canada, the Career Caravan promotes Western employers in key job pools and has been met with countless successes along the way." |
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“Fort McMurray Today" Municipality hunting for potential employees in Ontario "With more than 500 staff positions needing to be filled, spokesman Tyran Ault said the municipality’s human resources department is leading the hiring initiative. Municipal HR reps jetted to Waterloo, Ont., today to attend the Work West Career Caravan.." |
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“Business View Magazine" Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce "The fair seemed to attract all walks of life, from recent commerce graduates, to engineers, journeymen, nurses, teachers - you name it - they all were looking for change. Tired of the hustle and bustle of a big city like Toronto, that had left them disillusioned and with little hope for the future, they were ecstatic to find out about a city like Saskatoon, one which they could barely place on a map earlier on." |
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“The Record" Kitchener - Waterloo News item "The employers at a job fair later this week in Waterloo want you to know there are still jobs available. Hundreds, in fact. Just not here. The companies at the Workwest Career Caravan at the Waterloo Inn on Friday and Saturday are in Fort McMurray, Alta., Saskatoon and other western locales, where it's still a worker's market..." |
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Government of Saskatchewan News Release "More than 1,200 job seekers attended the WorkWest career fair in London, Ontario, May 30 and 31. While hiring decisions are yet to be made, employers came home satisfied with the number of motivated, high-quality candidates and are optimistic about meeting their goals for the event." |
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The Toronto Star "Western Canadian employers at the job fair are chomping at the bit to recruit Ontarians struggling in a tighter job market and eager to sign on as civic planners, labourers, firefighters, transit drivers, electricians, sandblasters, health-care professionals - you name it." |
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Briefcases - by Calgary Inc. "A CALGARY ADVERTISING firm has a unique technique in attracting employees from southern Ontario to fill western jobs. Employers scouring the East for workers are now posting videos of their workplaces to give potential employees a peek before they leap." |
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Government of Saskatchewan "More than 1,200 job seekers attended the WorkWest career fair in London, Ontario, May 30 and 31. While hiring decisions are yet to be made, employers came home satisfied..." |
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SaskBusiness Magazine "For the second time this year, the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority joined employers from the Saskatoon region at the Workwest Career Caravan, held in Ontario." |
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Business Edge Magazine
"Ness recently led a "WORKWEST" Career Caravan to Ontario. More than 3,000 jobseekers turned up to learn about the opportunities Saskatoon employers had to offer." |
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The Calgary Herald
"You've got all these areas downsizing, throwing people out of work or people are looking for the door because they know it's coming, ..." |
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The Calgary Herald
"Windsor residents attending a job fair Thursday and Friday are contemplating a move west to a land where employers are hungry for workers ..." |
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The Calgary Sun
"Last year 30,000 people migrated from Ontario to Alberta. Ontario has 7 million people in the labour force. You're looking at a gradual migration ..." |
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The Calgary Sun
"Calgary Transit is one of several suitors headed to the Workwest job fair next Friday and Saturday, hoping to hire 80 to 100 new staff" ... |
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The Red Deer Advocate "Accompanying Edwardson to London were representatives of 11 employers from Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray. They set up exhibits, chatted with prospective workers and even conducted interviews..." |
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The Edmonton Sun
"You've got such a compressed population base here that you need to bring some folks out and alleviate some of the congestion and challenges" ... |
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The London Free Press
"The average salary in Calgary is at about $60,000 and a household income is more than $100,000. That's 30% to 40% higher than Ontario" ... |
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The London Free Press
"Saskatchewan has far more opportunities than skilled people to fill them right now," says Chris Jones-Bonk" ... |
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Open Minds Magazine
"The days are gone when you can throw out a newspaper ad and get 80 to 100 responses. You have to get outside the box."... |
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National Post
"With a population of more than 12 million, Ontario has easily half a million workers ready to find meaningful employment"... |
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Osprey Media - Niagara Falls Review
"So when the 32 year old heard about the Alberta job fair in Niagara Falls this week, he decided to make the trek to the honeymoon capital"... |
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The Ottawa Sun
"Leslie Bigelow, a staff development officer with Calgary's Emergency Medical Services, who was at the job fair yesterday along with 10 other organizations, said he has found that costs in Calgary are equal to or less than those in Ontario"... |
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Prince George Citizen
"more niche recruiters are emerging in Calgary with the sole purpose of luring workers to Alberta from other provinces"... |
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Government of Saskatchewan
"Part of the solution to our labour shortage is attracting more people from other provinces, and these numbers show that more people are looking at the great opportunities available in Saskatchewan"... |
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Government of Saskatchewan
"Employment and Labour Minister Rob Norris will lead a delegation of Saskatchewan employers to the WorkWest Career Fair in London"... |
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Saskjobs Press Release "Saskatchewan employers who have participated at previous WORKWEST career fairs have reported positive experiences, including excellent exposure, strong leads and direct hires as a result of participation in the event"... |
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SASKATOON REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
"a delegation of Saskatoon Region employers recently returned from another successful recruitment mission, this time to London, Ontario. The WorkWest Career Caravan was held over a two day period"... |
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SASKATOON REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
"The Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority (SREDA) and six Saskatoon region employers recently returned from a very successful recruitment trip"... |
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SASKATOON REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
"Bernie Ness , Labour Market Coordinator for SREDA says more than 3000 people visited the job fair and learned about the job opportunities in Saskatoon"... |
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SASKATOON REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
"Among the contingent heading east for the two-day fair will be representatives from AREVA Resources Canada Inc., AMEC Americas Ltd., Westeel, SaskJobs, and the Saskatoon Health Region"... |
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The Toronto Star
"Yesterday was the first day of a two-day job fair at the Toronto Congress Centre"... |
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The Toronto Star
"Alberta, with a rock-bottom unemployment rate of 3.4 per cent, has more than two dozen recruiters working a Toronto job fair this week in an effort to find workers for the more than 400,000 new jobs"... |
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The Star Phoenix
"Saskatoon employers who joined us in Toronto in March came away with new employees and were overwhelmed by the interest," SREDA CEO Alan Migneault said"... |
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The Business Executive
"Sponsored by WORKWEST, a recruiting agency based in Calgary, the event drew over 1,500 curious workers to the London Convention Centre"... |
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The Toronto Star
"Obviously, there is a lot of driver interest because there are a lot of transportation companies here," said Ray Edwardson, president of Workwest.ca who spent the first part of the day strolling through the crowd"... |
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The Toronto Star
"Alberta's labour shortage is creating a "ripple effect" that is driving up wages across the country with pay increases for non-unionized workers expected to average 3.9 per cent"... |
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The Toronto Star
"Alberta, with a rock-bottom unemployment rate of 3.4 per cent, has more than two dozen recruiters working a Toronto job fair this week"... |
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The Toronto Sun
"We're all Canadians. There's 32 million people in this country and not everybody is enjoying the advantages that others have in certain parts of the country and we need to look after each other"... |
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The Toronto Sun
"The wife and mother of two went to the Workwest job fair at the Toronto Congress Centre yesterday, ready to start a new life near the mountains"... |
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The Toronto Sun
"About 30 companies based mostly in Alberta will be represented at the Workwest job fair next Friday and Saturday at the Toronto Congress Centre"... |
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The Vancouver Province
"Whether you call it the Alberta invasion or just-in-time employment, thousands of workers across southern Ontario are squarely in the crosshairs of Alberta recruiters"... |
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Windsor Star
"Windsor residents attending a job fair Thursday and today are contemplating a move west to a land where employers are hungry for workers..." |
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Winnipeg Sun
"Last year 30,000 people migrated from Ontario to Alberta. Ontario has 7 million people in the labour force. You're looking at a gradual migration, but it's going to be such a low percentage, Ontario would never feel the impact..." |
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Alberta Venture
"The circumstances couldn’t have been more propitious for Workwest's first Toronto-based career fair..." |
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Upbeat Wood Buffalo
"A team consisting of Human Resources, Regional Emergency Services, Public Works and Communication personnel attended the WorkWest Career Fair in Toronto..." |
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