Employer Information

Announcing a rare and golden opportunity for inclusive employers…

At Inclusion Works ’10, you have the opportunity to meet, interview, and hire from a pool of Canada’s top post-secondary-Aboriginal graduates that will be matched to your recruitment needs.  The one day recruitment fair (April 27, 2010) is being held in conjunction with Inclusion Works ‘10 - Canada’s biggest HR and employment event, April 27-29, 2010 at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, ON. 

As a council’s Leadership Circle partner, you will be able to participate in this one of a kind, national Aboriginal recruitment fair. 

Leadership Circle partners that receive the benefit of an interview station at the recruitment fair (minimum cost, $7,500) will be asked to fill in an online recruitment fair employer profile outlining their recruitment needs.  A committee of HR professionals will screen all grad applicants and match top candidates to the needs of the employers.

Employers will interview eight candidates for 30 minute interviews that will be held throughout the day on a rotational schedule.  Additional time has been built-in to the program for follow-up meetings with the candidates.  For detailed information on the recruitment fair program click here.

IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE RECRUITMENT FAIR:

• The number of grads that can be interviewed by a recruiter in one recruitment station is eight.
• Each employer participating in the recruitment fair will receive one graduate portfolio booklet per recruitment station, which profiles and provides contact information to all the graduates participating in the recruitment fair.
• Graduate selection criteria will match the needs of employer needs as described on the online recruitment fair employer profile. (Employer profile will be available soon.)
• Other graduate selection criteria includes: references, grades, background, work experience, self-presentation.
• Job seekers are post-secondary Inuit, Métis and First Nation graduates from all parts of Canada.
• Recruiters are offered a “skill-build” session prior to the interviewing process.
• There are value-added networking opportunities to meet graduates over the three-day event; including the ability to host a booth at the tradeshow (being held April 27 and 28, 2010 at Inclusion Works ’10.
• Last year’s Inclusion Works ’09 grad alumni formed an organization call the Young Indigenous Professionals (YIPs), which promises to become a valuable portal between highly-talented job-seeking Aboriginal graduates and employers like you.
• Several candidates at the Inclusion Works ’09 recruitment fair attracted bidding wars; these were always won by companies whose recruiters had the authority to hire on the spot. 

Employers who participate in the recruitment fair receive benefits that align with their Leadership Circle partnership level. Partnership opportunities begin at the “Recruitment Partner” level at the cost of $7,500.

Recruitment Partners receive:

• One interview station at the Inclusion Works recruitment fair
• One deluxe pass to Inclusion Works
• Inclusion coupon valued at $750 to purchase council products and services on a buy one, get the second one for half price basis
• One copy of the Inclusion Works recruitment fair graduate portfolio
• Logo recognition on the council’s website (homepage, about the council, Leadership Circle program, Inclusion Works event page)
• Logo recognition on a partnership Inclusion Works program insert
• One pass to the Champions’ Event.

RECRUITMENT FAIR TESTIMONIALS

“I am extremely grateful and forever indebted to you and your organization for putting on a world class and innovative event such as Inclusion Works!! I also had the extreme pleasure of being selected by the graduates to make the thank you speech to all of the organizers, sponsors, facilitators.  It is because of this event that I have been able to achieve my dream of working in Corporate Calgary!! I obtained employment as a Business Analyst in the Internal Securities and Governance Department of Trans Canada Pipeline and start on June 1, 2009."  Thanks once again!!

“Three of my students were chosen to attend your conference. I thought you would like to know that they had a wonderful experience. They have come back with a sparkle in their eyes. It is hard to explain, but they seem like different people, motivated and excited. I’m not sure exactly what they experienced, however, they will be forever changed.  One student has mentioned furthering their education, obtaining a degree after her diploma. I am so impressed that three days in Vancouver has inspired these students more than two and three years with us!! Great job, I look forward to hearing about next year’s conference."

                    – Bettina Welsh, Management Studies Instructor, SIIT Regina Campus