It’s essential that students have an amazing experience every step of the way when they’re interacting with your organization, including on social media, at on-campus visits, during the application process, throughout their work terms, and even after their internships or co-op terms are over.
That’s the message Evan Birtch, Team Lead, Campus Programs at Research In Motion, brought to his fellow campus recruiters and human resources professionals at the Campus Recruitment Excellence Conference.
We always knew that there were a lot of good eggs out there looking for high quality internships, summer jobs, student jobs and entry level jobs, but it was great to come across this information on Statistics Canada this morning: Apparently, as we launched TalentEgg in 2008, Egg production increased!
Statistics Canada Chart 4: Production of eggs, Canada, 2000-2009
All yokes aside, our launch and subsequent re-launch toward the end of 2008 coincided with one of the toughest job hunting periods in history for Canadian youth, a situation from which the country still has not truly recovered. Lots of eggs, not a lot of cartons.
However, with new companies joining TalentEgg.ca every month and lots of employers creating internship and new grad programs behind the scenes, we know what a lot of young eggs still don’t know – the situation is improving.
Working so closely with employers, career centres, faculty, student leaders, and students themselves, we also have unique insight into the overriding problems in campus recruitment. Namely, the mismatch between what employers are looking for both superficially (grades, egg-citing resumes, egg-cellent interviews) and truly (top talent that can quickly make an impact in their organizations), and what students are offering to them in the recruitment process.
Over the past (almost!) 3 years, we’ve produced literally thousands of resources for students, and with each iteration of our site, aim to improve both the resources themselves and the way that students find them.
We’ve also done a fair bit of speaking and writing aimed at employers, with the goal of helping employers gain a deeper understanding into student life and student decision making. This is something we’ll be devoting more of our resources to in the coming months.
As a company that was born out of a real-life experience, and that is so organically and completely connected to student/recent grad life, we truly identify and represent the student voice in Canada. Stay tuned for (much, much) more.
For the team here at TalentEgg, the summer is really about preparing and the Fall – when students are back at school – is all about execution.
In the past 6 weeks,
We’ve published 5 special Focus microsite series’: Focus on Accounting, Focus on Engineering, Focus on Financial Services, Focus on Mining (in partnership with MiHR), and Focus on Sales & Marketing.
Coming up in the next few weeks is still Focus on Petroleum, in partnership with the Petroleum Human Resource Council (and we have a whole bunch planned for January/February too).
These special microsites have been fantastically received, with students, professors, and career professionals commenting that each Focus serves as a top-notch, unparalleled resources that truly leverages the power of the web to give students and new grads a useful resource and starting point for planning their careers. If you haven’t yet, I strongly urge you to check them out!
TalentEgg.ca has hit milestone numbers: Including 45% traffic growth from August to September, the publication of our 650th career article for students and new grads, and the addition of over 15 new employers to the TalentEgg.ca site, including IBM, Cenovus Energy, Blockbuster, Procter & Gamble, Hershey’s, and more!
We were featured in the Financial Post and on BNN: A full page article was published in the Financial Post highlighting TalentEgg’s rapid growth, and we were also featured on a special segment for BNN taped here at TalentEgg-HQ!
We hosted a party for writers, interns, and friends of TalentEgg: Last Friday, we had a little get-together and invited the people who have helped us get to these significant, fantastic milestones.
Jillian Wood and Nicole Wray at the TalentEgg Social
Yesterday, I took a bit of time to reflect on all the changes happening at TalentEgg, and attempted to look at our growth and the products we offer from an objective, 10,000 ft standpoint. The long and short of it is – you can expect a lot of continued (and maybe even ENHANCED) energy and enthusiasm from us. We’re aggressively building the content on the site, adding new, top quality employers all the time, and expanding and enriching the editorial and resource-content that accompanies it.
If you represent an employer and your company isn’t on TalentEgg yet, talk to us about what a profile on TalentEgg involves, and see how you can get on board. If you want more information in the mean time, check our new “employer info page”.
And if you’re a student or recent grad – talk to us! Post your questions in our discussion forum, and send us your feedback!
As usual, the past few weeks have been very exciting here at TalentEgg. Firstly, we would like to give a warm welcome to two new TalentEgg clients, The Source and Starbucks. Be sure to keep checking back for great job postings from these two great companies!
Also, TalentEgg’s founder, Lauren Friese, has recently been taking some fun road trips across Ontario to McMaster University, York University, the University of Toronto Mississauga, University of Toronto Scarborough and Queens!
Check out this video of Lauren from the Impact Innovate 2010 Conference at Queen’s University on March 6 where she spoke with students about entrepreneurship:
Don’t forget about our Focus on Retail event, which will take over TalentEgg next week, from March 22-26
Visit TalentEgg.ca daily for amazing content on everything from debunking the misconceptions about starting a career in retail to exploring the career paths in retail available to Canadian students and recent grads. We will also be showcasing meaningful job opportunities from some of Canada’s top retail employers, including Starbucks, Reitmans, Sears, The Source and Enterprise.
If you have any questions for retail employers, submit them as a comment on this post or send them to us on Twitter because we’ll be at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Retail Management next week to host a Q&A panel featuring retail professionals.
We would also love to start posting more entries on TalentEgg’s blog to better inform YOU about the great benefits our website has to offer so if you have any great ideas, let us know!
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