CSR and recruitment: your values are already hiring, now you have to show them
Quebec SMEs already live their values every day. How to make those actions visible to attract and retain your staff.
Body language in job interviews: what really matters
Body language in a job interview isn’t decoded, it’s checked. Three myths to drop and the one reflex that works, for candidates and recruiters alike.
Hiring Gen Z: they interviewed you before they applied
Gen Z checks out your business online before reading your posting. What they look for, and what a manager can show this week.
Hiring locally: your future employees already walk through your door
For a neighbourhood business, the best candidates live nearby. Why hiring closer works, and how to show it on video.
Retail labour shortage: the wrong diagnosis
In the first quarter of 2026, Quebec retail had 10,100 job vacancies. While nearly every industry is catching its breath, it’s one of only two where the number is going up. And most of these are jobs that require no diploma. The problem may not be the number of candidates, but the way we see […]
Holiday hiring: your real deadline isn’t Christmas
Every fall, Quebec retailers staff up for the holidays by counting back from Christmas. That’s the wrong marker. The date that matters is the one where the new hire runs the floor alone, and in 2026 it lands on November 21. Counted backwards, the holiday hiring calendar puts the job posting in mid-September. The scene […]
AI and recruitment: why your 40 applications all look the same
In this article AI didn’t create the problem, it finished it Why your candidates are right to do it The race you can’t win Ask for what can’t be generated Try it tonight. Print the last ten applications you received for your open role. Hide the names. Try to guess who is who. You won’t […]
What an incomplete profile says to the other side
She reshot it three times. On the first take, her voice was shaking. On the second, she felt awkward. The third will do. She posts, closes the app, and tells herself she just did something a little crazy: showing her face to strangers who will decide her future. The next day, she opens the profile […]
Your Job Posting Tells the Story of Your Bad Hires
“Must be autonomous.” That line added in ten seconds says a lot — not about the role, but about your last bad hire.
Posting the Salary: The Honest Math
Posting the salary is scary for three good reasons. Put them up against what silence really costs you.