YMCA job placement
Posted by Bill Molesworth
on Apr 25, 2012
Myrosia is a Certified Image Specialist who works in areas of job development and closely with employers to find the right worker. She suggests thinking about life changing events we have experienced. Changing jobs, having a family, graduating university. In her current situation she's a job developer - the contact between an employer and prospective employees. She evalulates the position and the people available and develops a 'route to hiring'. She creates a profile of the employer by doing a hiring needs analysis, then she creates the posting and a plan for the future. She can help with job descriptions, post jobs on web sites, etc. She processed 236 last year. She collects resumers and can do a pre screening and job matching.
The Y can facilitate wage incentives and has made over $100,000.00 available to employers since 2007, which means money coming into the community but also, and more important, the creation of long term jobs and more employed people.
There is also an apprenticeship signing bonus program and job shadowing and placements.
The Y offers employer support through assistance in the hiring process and space for interviews, job fairs, opportunities through the C o C and workshops in recruiting and hiring practices.
Benefits to the employer are the savings of time and money and the greater resources of working with a team in a win win. They can help develop job sharing plans and they provide bilingual services.
Myrosia has worked with Petra, who worked in HR for a midsized company in Toronto before coming her to take a position with NEBS as a generalist in HR. Petra said her experiences with Myrosia have been positive, especially in her first days when she was trying to fill two jobs and found that Myrosia and the Y are community based with local contacts and knowledge which proved very helpful. They are cost effective - free! and there is no sales pressure. She has experience with employment agencies who care more about placing anyone than finding the right someone. The staff at the Y are trained and professional with a real interest and understanding of what they are doing. They offer a flexible and responsive variety of services. The preselection process saves a lot of time.
The Y works under contract to Employment Ontario.
The Y can facilitate wage incentives and has made over $100,000.00 available to employers since 2007, which means money coming into the community but also, and more important, the creation of long term jobs and more employed people.
There is also an apprenticeship signing bonus program and job shadowing and placements.
The Y offers employer support through assistance in the hiring process and space for interviews, job fairs, opportunities through the C o C and workshops in recruiting and hiring practices.
Benefits to the employer are the savings of time and money and the greater resources of working with a team in a win win. They can help develop job sharing plans and they provide bilingual services.
Myrosia has worked with Petra, who worked in HR for a midsized company in Toronto before coming her to take a position with NEBS as a generalist in HR. Petra said her experiences with Myrosia have been positive, especially in her first days when she was trying to fill two jobs and found that Myrosia and the Y are community based with local contacts and knowledge which proved very helpful. They are cost effective - free! and there is no sales pressure. She has experience with employment agencies who care more about placing anyone than finding the right someone. The staff at the Y are trained and professional with a real interest and understanding of what they are doing. They offer a flexible and responsive variety of services. The preselection process saves a lot of time.
The Y works under contract to Employment Ontario.