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The first major fund-raising campaign by Canada’s leading communications foundation has surpassed its goal.  The Communications + Public Relations Foundation will use proceeds to conduct original research to establish the profile of today’s public relations practitioners and determine the skills and aptitude that Canadian employers will be expecting from public relations professionals in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

Findings from Randstad’s latest Global Workmonitor, surveying employees in 29 countries around the world, reveal Canadian employees have mixed feelings when it comes to working from home in 2012. Survey results indicate 31% of Canadians say they expect to work more from home in 2012, while 36% say they expect to work less. Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to connecting online with friends, colleagues and acquaintances, Facebook is the place to be for those in creative fields, a new survey by The Creative Group suggests. Nearly half (44 per cent) of advertising and marketing executives interviewed said Facebook would be their social media site of choice if they were limited to using just one. Read the rest of this entry »

The results of fifty-two million end-user speed tests have shown Canada as a global contender in broadband internet performance, ranking often in the top ten of international countries, according to a new report by Lemay-Yates Associates Inc. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s weak innovation performance is partly a result of Canadian business leaders’ sometimes inaccurate beliefs about the innovation environment, according to a Conference Board of Canada report based on results from the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Survey 2011-12. Read the rest of this entry »

Wondering what the most in demand IT jobs are, and which skills will best advance your IT career? According to a recent survey of Canadian business decision-makers commissioned by Randstad Technologies and IBM Canada, companies in 2012 are looking for IT professionals with project management, security and architecture skills, as well as strong interpersonal abilities. Read the rest of this entry »

Want to know the way to an employee’s heart? Thirty-eight per cent of professionals interviewed by OfficeTeam, a Robert Half Company,  identified work/life balance as the top contributor to their job satisfaction. Opportunities to learn and grow came in second, with 20 per cent of the response. Read the rest of this entry »

Avanade, a business technology solutions and managed services provider, has released its report, Dispelling Six Myths of Consumerization of IT, based on a survey of more than 600 senior business and IT leaders conducted in 17 countries. The report challenges commonly held beliefs about the consumerization of IT — including executive perspectives on Millennials as the driving force, employee brand preferences, and hesitance of business leaders to embrace the trend.

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Talent Technology Corporation, providers of Talemetry™, a leading talent generation solution for corporate HR and recruitment agencies announced today the results to their latest survey of recruitment professionals, releasing their annual State of Recruiting Survey Results and Infographic. Finding good candidates remains the #1 recruiting challenge for organizations; the more specific and higher skilled the job requirements, the harder to find qualified candidates.  Read the rest of this entry »

The average e-commerce website takes 10 seconds to load, web pages are getting bigger, and Internet Explorer 9 outperforms other browsers. These were the findings of the 2012 Annual State of the Union: E-Commerce Page Speed and Website Performance study, the second annual report published by site acceleration solution provider Strangeloop Networks. Read the rest of this entry »