MindField Group is pleased to welcome Jerry Gratton, Director of Customer Success, to the management team!  

 Jerry Gratton

In this role Jerry will lead our team of Customer Success Managers in their goal to provide coaching, support and recruiting expertise to our clients to drive high impact ROI on our recruitment service.  

Prior to joining MindField Group, he held key leadership roles during the hyper-growth phases of some of the most successful companies in Vancouver, including Crystal Decisions, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, and Aritzia. 

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With the highly successful HR conference behind us, the MindField team is heading East once again to be a part of one of Canada's largest gathering of retail influencers. Presented by the Retail Council of Canada, the 2010 STORE conference brings together over 550 retail executives, management teams, suppliers and vendors. The two-day annual event (May 31st-June 1st), provides a rare and valuable chance to network among this diverse group of industry leaders.

This year's theme, "Igniting Growth" offers a look at new possibilities, a fresh outlook and strategies to accelerate growth across all areas of retail. As experts in retail recruitment with a forward thinking approach in all we do, MindField Group is a proud sponsor of this event. 

Stop by the MindField booth to say hello and enter to win an Apple IPad!

Pictures of last month's HR Conference below!

OVERWAITEA FOOD GROUP CHOOSES MINDFIELD'S INNOVATIVE RECRUITMENT SOLUTION TO MEET HIRING NEEDS

Vancouver, Canada (May 19th, 2010) - Overwaitea Food Group (OFG) has entered into a long-term working relationship with MindField Group, Canada's fastest growing Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) provider. MindField will continue to deliver a full end-to-end recruitment solution for OFG's more than 120 store locations across British Columbia and Alberta.

"A long term partnership with Overwaitea Food Group is very exciting for MindField. As we continue to enhance our expertise in retail recruitment, we have been able to offer OFG the solutions they need to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their hiring process", said Cameron Laker, Founder and CEO of MindField Group.

As the largest Western-based Canadian food store chain, OFG is a company that is always on the lookout for ways to streamline hiring practices and build their recruitment brand. According to Marla McMullen, OFG's Manager of Recruitment & Leadership Development, "MindField Group has helped to centralize and improve OFG's overall recruitment process and they consistently meet their service level agreement. Their personalized approach and creative web-based job ads have directly contributed to the strengthening of our employment brand." She adds, "For us, it is also very beneficial that MindField offers social media-based solutions to assist in finding candidates based on geographic location." 

"Many of the Overwaitea Food Group (OFG) retail team members you meet today are candidates that have been part of the MindField recruitment process. 2009 was a successful year for this partnership. We have processed just over 200,000 applicants for all of our retail clients, including OFG. We continue to meet their recruitment needs and we look forward to providing our services to a great company like the Overwaitea Food Group," add Cameron. 

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 The following brands operate under the Overwaitea Food Group banner :

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Bosley's chooses MindField Group, experts in front-line recruiting for multi-location retailers.

Bosley's Pet Food stores signs 12 month agreement with MindField Group to provide front-line recruiting services directly to their store managers.

"Our customers want an informative and positive shopping experience, after all, their pets are truly regarded as members of the family. In working with MindField Group we know we will receive candidates who are educated about our company and products and as passionate about animals as we are," says Mary Prantner, Director of Retail Operations for Bosley's Pet Food Stores.

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MindField Group, Canada's leading Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) provider for the Retail industry is excited to become an official partner with Retail Council of Canada (RCC). 

The partnership comes as the next natural step after successfully delivering "Leveraging social media to recruit front line staff" alongside RCC. The session was well a well received webinar on social media recruitment for the Retail industry.

The MindField team will venture East to Toronto on April 14th to attend the popular HR Conference. This full day networking event themed : "Driving Retail in Times of Change" offers the opportunity to network, discover new products and hear industry experts on a wide variety of topics and issues that are relevant to those that operate in Retail. MindField CEO, Cameron Laker is excited to sit as a panelist for one of the events round table discussions.

COME VISIT THE MINDFIELD BOOTH FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A GREAT PRIZE FROM MAC! 

On May 31-June 1 the MindField team will once again take the RPO show on the road, exhibiting at the hugely successful STORE2010 conference in Toronto. STORE 2010 will look at new possibilities, a fresh outlook and strategies to accelerate growth. Over 550 retail executives, management teams, suppliers and vendors attend the two-day annual event, which provides them the rare and valuable chance to network with a diverse group of industry leaders and celebrate the accomplishments. 

MindField Group will also be presenting two webinars in partnership with RCC. Date and topics coming soon...

MindField Group is pleased to welcome Kate Labou as Director of Finance and Administration to our management team.

Kate Labou

As a dedicated financial professional with over 15 years of experience, Kate has earned a solid reputation for her analytical abilities, leadership and creativity. As Director of Finance and Administration Kate will focus on creating strong financial budgeting and reporting to support the growth initiatives currently underway.  

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Now available for your viewing and listening pleasure, are MindField Group's past webinars.

Topics include:

• Building and Managing Talent Piplelines
  
• Web 2.0 Five strategies to improve your employment brand 
  
• Campus Recruitment
  
• Twitter for recruitment

The beautiful Fairmont Waterfront Hotel was yesterday's venue for the Best Companies to work for in B.C Awards Celebration. This is the eighth year BCBusiness has featured this province's most outstanding employers.

As survey partners, MindField Group was excited to attend the event which recognizes the Top 10 employers in two categories : the best companies with more than 100 employees and the best companies with  fewer than 100 employees.

To view the complete list of this years winners, Click here

Thank you again to our corporate event partners :

Registration for the 2010 program is now open, Click here to register

Phenominal growth rate places MindField in enviable spot amongst some of Canada's most dynamic business leaders.

The profit 50 is the definitive ranking of Canada's Emerging Growth Companies put forth by PROFIT magazine.

"It is a great honour to be recognized on the PROFIT HOT 50 and we are extremely excited about our successes. Our achievements can be attributed to our fantastic team, our advisors, clients that believed in us early on and our continued committment to remain a leader in recruitment." says CEO and founder Cameron Laker.

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