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Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

- Orchestrating the Full-Cycle Recruitment Process: Managing end-to-end recruitment activities, including assessing hiring needs, crafting compelling job postings, screening candidates, and conducting interviews. Effectively handle a high volume of job requisitions across diverse functional areas including Engineering, Surveying, etc. - Cultivating Strong Partnerships: Develop solid relationships with hiring managers to deeply understand their requirements and collaborate on creating robust sourcing and recruiting plans that align with McElhanney's goals - Advocating Diversity and Culture: Championing diversity and inclusion throughout the hiring process. This includes crafting inclusive job descriptions, forming diverse interview panels, and ensuring candidates have a positive experience that reflects McElhanney's values - Driving Continuous Improvement: Creating a culture of learning and improvement by developing effective interviewing and evaluation tools. Continuously refine and enhance recruitment practices to attract top talent and elevate the overall hiring process - Elevating Student Recruitment Programs: Take student recruitment initiatives to new heights by strategizing forecasting methods, establishing a student ambassador program, managing campus events (both physical & virtual), boosting social media presence, and implementing efficient tracking mechanisms - Cultivating School and Organizational Partnerships: Build and nurture relationships with key educational institutions and organizations to maximize opportunities for campus presence and engagement - Attracting Top Talent: Organize and participate in on-campus and virtual events to attract the best talent and create talent pools that address current and future talent requirements - Enhancing Employer Branding: Collaborate on employer branding and recruitment marketing efforts to drive external engagement. Develop proactive sourcing strategies that attract, engage and retain high-quality talent

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

- Create and maintain accurate employee records and gathering all related documentation and key details - Answer employees' questions regarding their benefits - Screen candidates’ resumes and job applications - Plan interview and selection procedures, including screening calls, and in-person interviews - Manage candidates throughout interview process from prepping before interviews to onboarding as a new employee - Distribute, complete, and process paperwork for new hires - Conduct new hire orientation and benefits orientation to build a strong foundation for new employees and increase employee engagement - Provide new hires with the appropriate paperwork and details of their new role - Maintain a database of candidate records, including active and passive prospects, hired and fired employees - Organize and maintain personnel records, entering new hire data, and updating any previous employees’ data - Update internal HR databases, for example, maternity leaves, vacations, and more - Assist in developing an employee handbook for new hires - Assist the payroll department by providing them with up-to-date information on all employees, including sick leaves, leaves of absence, and more - Develop an offboarding plan to manage departures effectively - Coordinate exit interviews for departing employees - Establish recruiting requirements meeting with managers to discuss needs

St-Hubert, Québec, Canada

- Responsible of the full cycle recruitment process for the hourly staff and certain salaried positions : Online posting of job offers on various recruitment platforms, receiving and screening the applications, selection of candidates, interviews (telephone and in person), technical tests, hiring, onboarding.- Getting the new hire set up, preparing new hire files and communicating with service providers- Working with SmartRecruiters, a recruitment software- Working one-on-one with various department managers in order to fill open positions- Supporting the HR Advisor in managing employee files- Building lasting relationships with employees- Responsible for the Benchmark project on labour laws in Canada and in the United States