Are you facing challenges in your efforts to find workers with the right skills and experience? Do you want to enhance your ability to keep your talent onboard and growing? Use the resources and articles in this section to help you meet your HR goals.
Click on the links below to find resources and articles related to each topic.
For more on how you can find and keep employees, see WorkBC's selected resources
B.C.'s Labour Market, Guide to the BC Economy and Labour Market
Understand the outlook for B.C.’s economy and labour market. Government of B.C.
Charting Your HR Plan
Learn how to create a sound HR plan, a tactical tool to plot your direction and drive your business forward. Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).
HR Planning
Develop your understanding of strategic and operational HR planning, succession planning, risk management and more. HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector.
Human Resources Management: An Overview
Use this guidebook as an overview to human resources management. Cultural Human Resources Council.
Human Resources Management Guide for Canadian Information and Communications Technology Companies
Find out how to analyse your requirements, manage diversity, stimulate productivity and more. Information and Communications Technology Council.
Human Resources Planning
Find out what you should include in an HR plan in order to build an organizational structure that meets your goals. BioTalent Canada HR Toolkit.
Building a Winning Employee Team
Discover the seven major keys to creating a successful employee team. Women’s Enterprise Centre.
Capitalizing on the Generational Gap in the Workplace
Learn about the four generations found in today’s workplaces and profit from the qualities each bring. go2.
Coaching, Mentoring and Succession Planning
Learn how to coach for performance, mentor employees, create informal peer mentorships, and plan for succession in management positions. Cultural Human Resources Council.
Conflict Resolution
Find background, exercises and an eight-step conflict resolution process. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dealing with Challenge and Conflict
Understand conflict styles, how to create a collaborative environment, and how to use communication skills to resolve conflict. Cultural Human Resources Council.
Delegation of Tasks and Projects
After taking the delegation quiz and assessing your need to delegate, learn all about how to delegate, monitor, and address challenges. Cultural Careers Council Ontario.
Developing Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Learn about the emotional components of leadership and how to apply them in your workplace. The Employment Roundtable.
Employee Opinion Surveys
Find out why you should survey your employees and how to do it effectively. go2.
The Importance of Ongoing Employee Communications
How and when you talk with your staff affects the health of your business and your employee-retention efforts. go2.
Leadership vs. Management
A successful business owner needs to be both a strong leader and manager to get their team on board to follow them towards their vision of success. go2.
Motivating People
Analyse your own motivation needs, then learn how to satisfy basic and higher-level needs and create a motivating environment. Cultural Careers Council Ontario.
Check References
Access sample questions to help you conduct an efficient and effective reference check. HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector.
Conducting Effective Reference Checks
Find out how to conduct reference checks that will maximize your chances of hiring success. go2.
Employment Standards in B.C.
Find out about B.C.’s Employment Standards and your responsibilities as an employer. Government of B.C.
Evaluating and Testing Job Candidates
Testing for skills, knowledge and aptitudes can assist the process of matching the candidate with the job and your organization. Service Canada.
Expand Your Sources of Labour
Contribute to your company’s growth and success by hiring people with the skills, talent and personal attributes from new and non-traditional sources. WorkBC.
Getting the Right People
Learn how to get people with the right skills at the right time, through job descriptions, recruitment, selection, hiring and orientation. HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector.
Guide to Screening and Selection in Employment
Employ helpful guidelines for interviewing and selecting job candidates and avoid common interview pitfalls. Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Increasing the Talent Toolkit
Even if you’re in a "hard-to-recruit" location, this resource will help you attract, retain and develop workers. Petroleum Human Resources Council.
Job Analysis and Job Descriptions
Learn how to analyse the job position so you can develop an effective job description for recruiting, selecting and other HR functions. Service Canada.
Looking for the Right Employee?
Making the right choice of job candidate begins long before the interview, through a well-prepared job ad, appropriate recruitment channels, and careful screening. Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).
Offer Employee Benefits to Stay Competitive in Labour Market
Differentiate your organization and save employee turnover costs through a creative package of benefits. go2.
Plan the Steps in Your Recruitment
Plan recruitment to find the right people for job openings and avoid the time and money costs of bad recruitment decisions. go2.
Plan Your Interviews
Plan your interviews so you can predict more accurately how candidates will fare in the positions you seek to fill. go2.
Recruitment Options
Explore various means to find the workers you need. Service Canada.
Recruiting the Right People
Define your skills and talent requirements and attract and select the right people. Includes behaviour-based interview questions and more. Cultural Human Resources Council.
Screening and Interviewing Job Applicants
Streamline your hiring process through clear job requirements and effective screening and interviewing. Service Canada.
Workable Solutions
Connect with B.C.'s vast pool of skilled, talented job seekers with disabilities and access a number of support resources. Government of B.C.
WorkBC
From mapping out a search strategy to interviewing and hiring, find the resources you need for success. Government of B.C.
WorkBC - Hone Your Hiring Process
Find resources to guide you through the stages of interviewing, screening and selecting candidates. Government of B.C.
WorkBC - How to Attract, Retain and Engage Employees
Develop winning strategies for finding and keeping valued employees. Government of B.C.
WorkBC - It’s About Ability: How to Attract, Retain and Engage Mature Workers
Benefit from the wealth of knowledge and range of experience mature workers bring. Government of B.C.
WorkBC - Under the Labour Radar: Aboriginal People, Youth, Women and Persons with Disabilities
Learn how to tap into groups who can expand and strengthen your workforce. Government of B.C.
Employee Engagement and Retention
Discover how various HR responsibilities contribute to employee engagement, loyalty and productivity. HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector.
Environmental and Workplace Health
Explore the seven steps that can help you develop a healthy workplace. Health Canada.
Growth Opportunities Are Key to Employee Retention
Discover some of the ways that forward-thinking organizations are retaining the best and the brightest people. Canadian Management Centre.
Guide to Orientation: Getting the Right People
Find a new employee orientation checklist, from before the employee starts to the first six months. HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector.
Keeping the Right People
Build an ongoing productive relationship with staff, and learn the steps you need to take when an employee leaves your organization. HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector.
Managing Employee Performance
Learn about performance management systems and become a skilled performance manager. Includes a sample action plan and review forms. Cultural Human Resources Council.
Positive Returns on Providing Well Planned Compensation
Develop a total compensation package that both works for your company and retains valued employees. go2.
Recognition and Rewards
Learn how incorporating recognition and rewards in your workplace can contribute to good morale and directly affect your bottom line. go2.
Retention Planning
Gain an overview of retention planning, and access articles on specific retention-related topics and strategies. go2.
Support Your Recruitment Efforts with New Hire Orientation
Learn how to deliver effective orientation that can reduce staff turnover, increase productivity and boost morale. go2.
Tips on How to Keep Your Seasonal Employees Coming Back
If you're a seasonal employer, discover strategies to keep the stars of your organization coming back year after year. go2.
Training Employees
Learn about different types of training and the variety of ways in which they can be delivered, and find checklists and other useful tools. Service Canada.
WorkBC
After all the work you've done to find great staff, learn how you can retain that top talent. Government of B.C.
WorkBC - Recognition
Discover ways to recognize and reward your employees. Government of B.C.
WorkBC - How to Attract, Retain and Engage Employees
Find ten steps to retaining and engaging your employees and current employee engagement practices. Government of B.C.
WorkBC - Healthy Work Environments
Address the three key elements of a healthy work environment to attract, retain and engage employees. Government of B.C.
Workplaces that Work
Learn how to balance the multiple demands of managing diverse workplace relationships and interactions. HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector.
Succession Planning
Learn what succession planning is, why it’s important, and more. Includes tools and a list of resources. HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector.
Want Long Term Success? Succession Planning Considers What's Critical
A well-defined succession plan will help your business endure in the event of a sudden departure. Be prepared to replace people – before they leave. go2.
