Within 5 minutes yesterday, many hours of work from many different people came together to help us get to 30% of our August goal at TalentEgg.
What does that mean? We’re well on our way to our Honest Egg adventure!!
Clearly we are not the first – nor will we be the last – to embark on an Honest Egg’s adventure:
http://nogoodforme.filmstills.org/blog/archives/2009/03/26/honest_eds_fash.html
This egg-cites me
Well done team, and thanks for all the support from our TalentEgg fans so far!!!!
Yesterday, the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada announced a new partnership with TalentEgg for ourFocus on Petroleum online event in November.
Retiring workers will affect all sectors in the petroleum industry within the next decade—approximately 105,000 workers will need to be hired by 2020—and forward-thinking employers are encouraged to think about replenishing their workforce with young workers now. Cheryl Knight, CEO and Executive Director for the Council urges, “The findings of the Council’s Supply/Demand Analysis 2009-2020 not only indicate future opportunities for job seekers, but also the critical need to continue to attract new entrants – particularly young people to the industry to meet labour demand.”
The Council has partnered with TalentEgg to increase awareness of meaningful entry-level careers in the petroleum industry among students and recent graduates, as well as spotlight the employers that offer those careers within the industry, during the Focus on Petroleum event in November 2010 and beyond. Lauren Friese, Founder and CEO of TalentEgg says, “The oil and gas industry traditionally remains under the radar for the majority of young people today. Our partnership with the Council and cross-promotion of the Careersinoilandgas.com website during the event, is one way we can speak to youth in their medium of choice – online and through social media.”
The week-long online event will employ an innovative and pro-active approach by reaching out to 18-25 year olds through social media (i.e., Facebook and Twitter), video interviews, online articles and employer profiles. Through the featured content developed for the Focus on Petroleum event, Canadian youth will learn about the oil and gas industry and its different sectors, jobs and career paths within the industry, the benefits of working in the petroleum industry and more. The content will also address many of the myths and misconceptions about the industry that exist among youth.
We are egg-cited to be working with the Council on the Focus on Petroleum! In combination with tons of fantastic employers, the Focus on Petroleum is sure to be one amazing event for Canadian students and recent grads who are thinking about launching their careers in the oil and gas industry.
If you’re interested in getting involved with TalentEgg’s Focus on Petroleum in partnership with the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada, you can contact us or Rowena Sampang at the Council.
What resources and information do you want to see during the Focus on Petroleum in November? Leave a comment on this blog post and we’ll take your ideas into consideration!
There seems to be a lot of love at TalentEgg lately.
Someone from our team – who will go unnamed – has been providing us with daily reports on his ascent into love (which is super-cute).
And, in a nice twist on a practice that is usually considered vandalism, the outside of our building was sprayed with the cutest love-graffitti in the whole wide world. We’re talking pink hearts and cute messages.
Unfortunately/fortunately, the building owners have recently started to repaint the entire building, covering up the love-graffitti. I took this picture the other day so that we could preserve at least a little bit of it:
Early last week I happened to be in Lauren’s office when she received a phone call—it was someone calling the references of a TalentEgg intern and writer for a very cool position on the web team of one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies.
By Thursday, she had been offered the role and Lauren forwarded me an email exchange between them about the opportunity. This was at the bottom of the chain, written by the intern:
I had an interview last week with [CompanyX] for the role of marketing specialist working for the [web] team. My interview went really well and he really liked hearing about the projects you’ve given me at TalentEgg. My experience at TalentEgg related perfectly to the position at [CompanyX].
It made me smile and I realized that, although TalentEgg is only a little over two years old, many of our interns, writers and assistant editors have already gone on to some amazing roles, including a marketing internship with a major bank, an editorial internship at The Walrus (one of the most prestigious and competitive internships in Canada!), and web editor of Wine Access magazine.
We’ve always been a very small core team supported by a group of smart, hard-working interns—some full-time, others part-time; some paid, others unpaid.
As someone who started at the company as an intern during its first summer more than two years ago, I know how valuable an internship at TalentEgg can be.
As long as you do the work that needs to be done, you can also get any experience you want.
You can experiment on new projects. You can be exposed to the work of each department. You get to work with students as well as with some of Canada’s biggest brands.
And although we sometimes struggle as young, inexperienced managers, we try to provide the best experience possible by keeping communication lines open. Seeing success stories like this one, where an intern was able to transfer her skills and experience to the next step in her career, makes it even more rewarding to work here (and it makes it a bit easier to navigate the challenges of being a young manager).
Plus, when we say students and recent grads should take on internships to help them launch their careers, we can actually back up that statement with solid examples from our own team!!
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