Event category: Breakout

Have you ever found the perfect candidate, but shied away because they don’t live in Canada and the prospect of hiring internationally felt too daunting? It’s true that going global can get messy fast, but it doesn’t have to!

Get an insider’s look into hiring and onboarding global employees. Hear the top considerations you need to know and learn options to navigate the complexities of hiring abroad from scale-sized companies who don’t have dedicated teams or resources to deal with the international expansion of their workforce.

• Key topics companies need to consider  (eg. tax, immigration, employment law, employment options such as EORs)
• Broader business considerations such as people and culture when going global
• Data outlining which countries should be at the top of your global expansion wish list from a people management perspective.

A recent McKinsey report shows that the #1 reason individuals were leaving their roles was lack of development and that an estimated 85% of the jobs available in 2030 don’t exist yet.  It is more important than ever to evaluate employee skills to retain talent, and to future proof your organization by identifying the adaptability of individuals to new ways of working or moving into entirely new jobs. Many companies struggle to understand the breadth of skills of their workforce, outdated processes fail to track the most sought-after abilities of future talent (such as critical thinking, mental flexibility and relationship building) and leaders fail to understand how valuable this data is for reaching future business goals and building your competitive edge.  This session will look at data with a skills lens and uncover the top abilities you should be tracking, how to measure them and tips to maximize the ROI on this information.

Takeaways:

• Apply learnings towards developing a plan for your organization to move towards being driven by skills (and how to sell this plan to your leadership team)
• Move from having training as a perk to using training to drive the right growth, upskilling and reskilling
• Hear the top 7 skills you should be seeking to fill your future talent needs
• Learn how skills data is the key to merging HR analytics with business analytics

Leaders fell under the spotlight during the pandemic, and the valuable lessons learned will help drive companies forward in a transition from crisis to growth mode. As leaders were forced to pivot their businesses and upend their workspaces, employees were gifted the opportunity to experience how human-centric, agile, innovative, transparent, and resilient their organizations were. Hear how these leaders used the strategy and experience of the pandemic to shape the future of work in the ever evolving and fast paced world of tech.

Going through an interview process can be extremely stressful for candidates. As talent acquisition professionals, one of our key missions is to make that recruitment experience as easy, positive and smooth as possible, so that we can bring out the best in every candidate – their win is our win. In this session, we will discuss 5 low-budget, quick-to-implement steps you can take to enhance your client experience, and leave every candidate that interacts with your organization saying “this is the best hiring process I’ve ever been through!”

Key Takeaways:

• Candidate experience: why should you care?
• Key pain points of a candidate experience
• How to turn each of these pain points into wow opportunities
• Making the candidate experience that you provide truly unique
• Tools to implement and measure your results

HR work isn’t easy. Our roles have become the command center to guide our leadership and teams on managing the uncertainty and disruption of world events. And while many of us have found ways to push through the waves of the pandemic, we are still human experiencing the same roller coaster of emotions that our teams are enduring. In this workshop, we’ll learn how compassionate leadership can give us the strength to build a stronger and more resilient post pandemic workplace.