Excel Personnel has been a member of Acsess, the Association of Canadian Search, Employment & Staffing Services, for many years. We are steadfast in our belief of the importance of an organisation like Acsess as it helps to provide a voice for our industry while building and sharing best practices, ethics standards and business solutions
Prince George. British Columbia’s Northern Capital and as close to the centre of the province’s proverbial wheel as you can get…without being in the actual centre, which would be Vanderhoof. Close enough though, we’ll take it. If you were to draw a quick “X” through British Columbia, those lines would neatly converge at the confluence
Community, Culture, Sport and History. Terrace BC brings all of these things to the forefront and, while Prince George, BC may be the defacto “Northern Capital” of the Province, Terrace is quite possibly its Northern heart. A little about the city: Geographically, Terrace is nestled proudly against the Coast Mountains along the Skeena River and
You need people, but you’re not a major company with hundreds or thousands of employees. Maybe you don’t have a dedicated Human Resources person let alone an entire department at your beck and call. Or maybe you do have an HR person, but that person is handling the day to day back-office duties of your
It happens to the best of us. We get to a point in our career where things seem to…stagnate. Maybe you’ve found yourself in a situation where you’ve hit the top rung of your ladder OR, through no fault of your own, a lack of growth opportunities has stifled you? Perhaps you’re surrounded by non-performers
We find it crucial in our practice to give the businesses and people we work with clear expectations. When working with new candidates and clients in the recruitment industry, there are some standard questions we get asked a lot. Can you help my (partner, fiancé, brother, mother, former boss, cousin, neighbour, crazy ex- girlfriend, etc.)
No. Not interested. We don’t use recruiters. We’ve got it handled. We don’t pay those rates. Or my personal favorite…simple, elegant, powerful… Silence. I don’t care who you are or what you do, unless you’re my 5-year-old boy, hearing “no” over and over again is going to have an effect. And if that’s not painful
Chances are that you’ve done all that you can to position yourself well in your career. You built your experience and invested in your education to ensure that you have an opportunity to be and do what you want. Whether you’re a Tradesperson, a Sales Leader, a Manager of Operations/Logistics/Customer Service/Finance, etc…you’ve tailored yourself to
It’s difficult to do things differently. This statement rings true for any job in any industry anywhere. In recruitment one will likely find themselves struggling to combat the preconceptions of their own industry based on the activities of the few that have come before. In order to “be different”, one needs to begin by identifying
