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5 Reasons Why You Need to Attend the 2019 TalentEgg Awards & Conference

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TalentEgg is back and bigger than ever for our annual National Campus Recruitment Awards and Conference. This eggs-straordinary day celebrates campus recruitment and offers a 360-degree, exclusive insight into top trends with data gathered from today’s students, grads and early-career professionals. Here are 5 reasons why you need to attend the 2019 TalentEgg Awards and Conference:

1. Amazing Presentations To #Inspire You

Our eggs-cellent keynote and speakers are here to share invigorating stories and ideas,  injecting an incredible energy towards the future of campus and early career recruitment. Expose yourself to industry leaders who are here to offer new perspectives. Absorb, discuss, and process new ideas to bring back to your office and look like a recruitment star!

2. Networking With Top Professionals

Rub shoulders with only the best and brightest in the industry (just like you!). We bring you all together to nurture a vibrant environment so you can expand your network and learn from each other – besides, who wouldn’t want to make a couple of new friends along the way? Come out and engage in meaningful conversations that leave you walking away feeling like a new person.

3. Exclusive Insight Into Top Trends


Continue to lead your industry with our cutting-edge, exclusive, insider information with data gathered from the honest answers of students, new grads, and for the first time, early career professionals. We’ll reveal our findings and dig deeper into innovation in employer branding strategies and in-demand professional development needs. Our carefully created Guide To Campus Recruitment will provide you with all the resources and data you need for your next steps when the new recruitment season rolls around. The dynamic world of working with people is egg-citing and ever-changing, so let us do some of the hard work for you.

4. Celebrate Your Accomplishments

This day is all about you! We want to acknowledge and celebrate everything you do to nourish your prospering working environments. Securing top talent requires an eye for people, and we think you did a pretty stellar job this year.

5. Just A Good Time!


We know how to have a good time! Our primary goal is to host an event where you can just enjoy yourself, get inspired, and meet new people (and enjoy the spectacular views from The Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto!). Year over year we continually receive positive feedback from our attendees, so come be a part of our history and enjoy a packed, full day with TalentEgg!

That’s all yolks, so get cracking and register here to save your seat today!

The Finalists for the Employee Recommended Workplace Award Have Been Announced!

TalentEgg, CharityVillage, and Bmeaningful are proud to be the Recruitment Community Partners with The Globe and Mail and Morneau Shepell to recognize the best workplaces in Canada in the National Employee Recommended Workplace Award. The Employee Recommended Workplace Award recognizes excellence in achieving a healthy, engaged and productive workforce. It is the only award of its kind that is based entirely on feedback from employees, because when you put in the effort to make your workplace amazing, your people notice!

We would like to congratulate the 2019 Finalists for their accomplishment. To view the full list of finalists see the Morneau Shepell and The Globe and Mail announcement here.

From 75 Finalists, winners in 12 business categories, including not-for-profit, will be announced at The Globe and Mail Solving Workplace Challenges Summit at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto on March 19, 2019!

Whether you are a small, medium or large enterprise company or nonprofit organization or government, there’s an Award category specially designed for you. Find out more about the awards. The 2020 Employee Recommended Award Program will launch in April 2019. For more information on the awards and to register online, please visit employeerecommended.com.

Don’t miss this chance to engage with your employees and celebrate your successes in improving your organization’s workplace. Show off your efforts and apply for this innovative Award today!

6 Tips For Creating A Winning TalentEgg Awards Application

It’s that time of year again! The applications for the 2019 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards & Conference are officially open!

The #TEAwards are an egg-cellent opportunity for top employers, career centres and educational institutions to be recognized for their egg-ceptional work, as well as gather valuable feedback from students and recent graduates on their campus recruitment initiatives.

We know you’re ready to get cracking on those submissions, but before you do, we wanted to share a few of our top tips and tricks for crafting an award-winning application.

1. Get organized

The first thing you should do is decide which award categories best fit your initiatives – and with 17 awards, you have plenty to choose from. To get started, make a shortlist of the ones you want to apply to and carefully read through the descriptions to ensure your team’s efforts meet the outlined criteria.

Here are the categories for this year’s TalentEgg awards:

EMPLOYER AWARDS

  • Best Grad Program
  • Best Campus Career Website
  • Best Internship/Co-op Program
  • Campus Recruiting Program of the Year
  • Campus Recruiting Program of the Year for a nonprofit NEW!
  • Campus Recruiter of the Year (Individual)
  • Campus Recruiter of the Year for a nonprofit (Individual) NEW!
  • Best Recruitment Marketing And Outreach
  • Best Social Media Presence
  • Special Award for Social Responsibility in Recruiting
  • Best Campus Ambassador Program
  • Best On-Campus Student Engagement Strategy
  • Best use of AI in Recruitment NEW!

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

  • Best Contribution To Student Career Development
  • Special Award For Innovation By A Career Centre
  • Best Digital Recruitment Campaign By An Educational Institution
  • Career Coach of the Year (Individual) NEW!

For more details, head to our website!

2. Gather your materials

Each awards submission is composed of two parts. The first is the mandatory online application. We ask all applicants to fill out a short form and provide a brief overview of the initiative being submitted for review.

Note: The Campus Recruiter of the Year and Career Coach of the Year (Individual) awards application are slightly different. For these awards, we ask for a short description of the nominee’s achievements.

The second component is the supporting documentation. We request all documentation to be presented in PDF format and attached with the application form. For this part, you can embed links to online presentations, websites, or other types of media to support the application and demonstrate the impact of your efforts.

Over the years, we’ve noticed that our judging panel tend to favour applicants who are able to support their achievements with solid evidence. Speaking of which…

3. Know your audience

Your work will be judged by an eggs-clusive panel of top students. In other words, your target audience for your campus recruitment initiatives. Therefore, to help ensure your application is well-received, you need to tailor it for a younger demographic.

Here’s what we recommend:

      • Use terminology that everyone can understand. Avoid industry jargon words and phrases.
      • Communicate in a Gen Z and Y-friendly voice. Aim for casual and conversational, but still professional.
      • Speak directly to the wants and needs of students. Check out our Guide to Campus Recruitment to get key insights from students & grads.

4. Show your work

So you think your organization had the best recruiting program of the year? Great – we want proof! Including quantitative data like statistics or percentages can help strengthen your claims and create a comprehensive application.

Another factor all winning applications have in common? Visual appeal. To stand out to the judging panel, try:

      • Using a style and branding that is similar to your other campus recruitment material.
      • Incorporating visual evidence, such as screenshots, logos, videos, etc., to illustrate your application.
      • Including pictures of your student/new grad employees and/or campus recruiters to help the judges better connect with your organization.

5. Keep it concise

With so many submissions to evaluate, most of the judges will likely only spend a short time evaluating each application. A text-heavy application will not appeal to a Gen Z and Y audience. The key is to provide as much detail as possible, but also keep it concise.

To do this, include only the most relevant and impressive information and use bulleted lists or graphs to convey your points wherever possible. Also remember that you can provide links to any social networking accounts, online media, and additional information you want to include.

6. Be creative

Don’t be afraid to flex those creative muscles when crafting your application! The goal is to create a submission that stands out from the competition in a memorable way and the best way to do that is to be innovative.

Think outside the box by leveraging new technology as much as possible. For example, you could create a video or a slide deck for your application instead of a traditional text document. You could also use infographics to represent your data in a modern and visually appealing way.

Just make sure that the end result is accessible and easy-to-navigate. It doesn’t matter how flashy your application is – if the judges can’t understand it, they can’t engage with it.

Follow these tips and you’ll be well on your way to creating a top-notch #TEAwards application. Good luck!

 

Interested in sponsoring the event? See the sponsorship opportunities here!

Introducing the 2018 Guide to Canadian Campus Recruitment – Decoding Gen-Z

The seventh annual TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards and Conference took place on Tuesday, June 26th, 2018, and we are happy to say that it was an egg-cellent day of learning and collaborating on best practices in student and new graduate recruitment. The TalentEgg Awards and Conference is a special day for us because it marks a moment when we bring together employers, nonprofits, campus recruitment professionals, and career educators for a day to discuss different approaches to supporting youth employment and professional development. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who joined us for the event, and we can’t wait to see you next year!

All Awards and Conference attendees got to take home our 2018 Guide to Canadian Campus Recruitment. This valuable resource gives employers and HR professionals crucial insights into recruiting Gen-Y and Gen-Z job candidates, including best practices, tips on how to use social media effectively, and what matters most to students and new graduates when it comes to starting their careers.

If you missed out on the conference, you can still access TalentEgg’s key findings from our Gen-Y and Gen-Z research and recruitment insights gained from our work with the Student Judges of the TalentEgg Awards! We’re offering a free digital download of the 2018 Guide to Canadian Campus Recruitment right here!

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