CareerVision

• Employment and Hiring Trends

• Career Profile: Susan McIsaac, FCA
• Branding Yourself Online
  
• 7 Business Meeting Etiquette Tips
  
• Featured Jobs

• Incompetence May Be Just Cause
  For Termination
• Managing Employee Stress
• Communication in the Workplace:
  It’s a Contract

• Financial Services Facing Skills Shortage

This webinar compares and contrasts the perspectives of hiring managers and workers. It provides insights into how workers feel about their jobs now, how both employees and employers are likely to respond to an improving economy and what qualities managers will look for in new hires. It also offer tips for overcoming common job search challenges and getting noticed in an increasingly competitive job market. The material in the presentation is based on Robert Half International and CareerBuilder®’s fifth annual Employment Dynamics and Growth Expectations (EDGE) Report.

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Career Profile: Susan McIsaac, FCA
~ Lorie Murdoch

In 1984, stay-at-home mom, Susan McIsaac, decided one day that she wanted another dimension to her life. She had already worked in agriculture after earning a plant science diploma, married, and had two sons. It was time for professional expansion. She enrolled at Sackville, New Brunswick’s Mount Allison University because it was close to her home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. “I thought a B Comm would be practical,” McIsaac says from the offices of McIsaac Darragh Chartered Accountants in Amherst. She graduated from Mount A in 1988 at the top of her class, and considered law or an MBA, but chose accounting so she wouldn’t have to re-locate.

The Internet and online social networking has radically changed the way we interact with each other on a day-to-day basis. As a result of this transformation, people need to be aware of how they are perceived when their name is searched online. This article will cover some online branding tips to consider, especially during a job search process.

Why take meeting minutes when meetings last hours? Usually poor business meeting etiquette is to blame, with poor planning and facilitation squandering valuable time and energy. Use these 7 business meeting etiquette tips to brush up your meeting skills and be more productive.

Featured Jobs

The job postings listed below are a sample of the 100+ postings on CA Source. To search all current CA Source postings, go to Search CA Jobs

1. Director
   Government of Saskatchewan
   Regina, Saskatchewan
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2. Staff Associate
   Chittick Howden Hoglin LLP Chartered Accountants
   Calgary, Alberta
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3. Manager
   George Weston Limited
   Toronto, Ontario
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Incompetence May Be Just Cause For Termination
~ Daniel Wong, LL.B, MIR

Many employers hold the belief that it is difficult, if not impossible, to terminate incompetent or underperforming employees for cause. As a result, employers often allow such employees to remain in the workplace for months or years or provide separation packages when the decision is made to finally terminate the employee. Neither of these approaches benefit the employer since they can detrimentally affect the morale or performance of other employees or encourage them to adopt what they perceive to be a lower standard of performance tolerated by the employer, or motivate them to perform poorly in the hope that they too will be rewarded with a financial payout to leave the organization.

Managing Employee Stress

Workplace stress may be unavoidable, and certainly some stress may be beneficial (helping employees complete tasks on time and under deadline), but when employees are inundated with stress from every angle on a daily basis their performance can be negatively affected. Your organization can help to alleviate employee stress with the implementation of effective programs, and see quantifiable results for the effort.

Communication in the Workplace: It’s a Contract
~ Helen Wilkie

One of the most common complaints in the workplace is, “There’s no communication around here!” It’s usually expressed in tones of disgust and frustration.

If top level management is serious about running an organization that truly communicates at all levels, internally and externally, it must take steps to create that reality. If you are in a position to influence the process, this article reviews some of the principles to follow.

Financial Services Facing Skills Shortage

There is a shortage of high-quality, skilled professionals to fill positions in the financial services sector in Canada, according to a survey of senior business and HR executives. The hardest positions to fill are in risk management (33%) and compliance (28%), followed by credit management, investment finance and wealth management (22% each). Almost one-half (48%) indicate they expect the skilled labour shortage will continue for the next couple of years. As a result, 80% of 590 respondents project either a loss of business opportunities (40%) or a lack of bench strength (40%) to support business operations this year and into the next decade.

Source: Taking Stock - Human Capital 2010 & Beyond, Watson Gardner Brown
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