Founded in 2003, Waterstone Human Capital helps organizations cultivate high-performing cultures. Each year, Waterstone honours Canada’s top corporate cultures with an annual awards program. “These awards recognize the very best in corporate culture,” says Marty Parker, who founded Waterstone more than two decades ago. This year, several technology firms nationwide made Waterstone’s list of Most […]
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How To Prepare for Hiring Events
Hiring events, like career fairs, can be fantastic ways to meet and learn more about local employers… and for them to get to know what you’re like beyond your resume! There’s just one thing — networking can feel like a daunting task especially if you’re looking for a job. Even just the mention of it […]
Layoffs Continue in 2023 as Tech Firms Grapple with New Reality
Much of the chaos and dust kicked up by the Covid-19 Pandemic is still shifting before settling. The once-consistent work environment is now a spectrum from all-office to all-remote across companies, impacting corporate culture and leaving entire downtown cores in a state of a flux. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In this new market, tech talent is […]
7 Options for Skilled Foreign Workers Recently Laid Off in Canada
Several tech-driven firms in Canada recently laid off a sizeable percentage of their workforce. These deep staff cuts may have affected many skilled foreign workers, both tech and non-tech, who had their work permit status in Canada tied to their employers. The situation with foreign workers is more peculiar compared to those who are Canadian […]
Ranking Canada’s Best Companies to Work For at Every Size
Where you work matters. At the average Canadian workplace, roughly 60% of employees consider where they work to be “great.” However, this figure rises to 90% for those among the “Best Workplaces in Canada.” That’s quite a difference. Great Place to Work this month released their 2022 lists, which in total represent the voices of […]
Who Are Canada’s Fastest Growing Tech Companies?
Deloitte has announced the winners of this year’s Technology Fast 50 program. Recognizing the world-class achievements of Canadian technology companies, the Technology Fast 50 program highlights their commitment to innovation, leadership, and rapid revenue growth between 2017 and 2020. This year, the average three-year growth of the Fast 50 winners is 2604%. Traditionally Deloitte has […]
Thinkific To Host Amplify 2021 Virtual Summit
Last year 63 million courses were taken on the Thinkific and the Vancouver-born online course platform platform hit 100 million courses overall in December. To date, Thinkific’s course creators have earned an estimated $650 Million selling their knowledge. “2020 lit a fire in the world of online learning. This 100 million milestone reflects the soaring demand for online courses […]
Canada’s Best Workplaces In Tech For 2020
Great Place to Work, an organization that evaluates companies based on company culture, has released its 2020 list of Canada’s Best Workplaces in Technology. Organizations were selected based on Great Place to Work’s Trust Index Survey, which measures the employee experience at each company. Employees are asked how frequently they experience behaviours that create a great […]
Vancouver’s AbCellera, Cymax, Klue, Thinkific, & Unbounce Hiring Virtually
It’s a great time to be looking for a new gig in Vancouver’s tech ecosystem with these five newsworthy tech companies participating in our November 25th virtual job fair. AbCellera 2020 Technology Impact Award winner AbCellera is hiring for 30+ roles including biologists, biochemists, engineers, bioinformaticians, computer scientists, and physicists. Earlier this year AbCellera was named the winner of Fast […]
Meet 26 Companies at Tech Talent Canada Virtual Job Fair
Tech Talent Canada will be hosting our first virtual Vancouver job fair tomorrow on Wednesday, October 21st and we’ve finalized the lineup of organizations that will be participating. Our virtual job fairs replicate the experience of our in-person events with a number of the participating companies pitching the audience on why you should consider working for them. […]