Jobs in Canada - CareerOwl Canadian Employment Search Site
A nationally incorporated non-profit ( though non-charitable ) organization.
phone: 1-877-OWL-POST (1-877-695-7678)
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What makes CareerOwl a different type of Canadian job search site?
Access to Canada's best and brightest post secondary students and graduates
Started by professors, CareerOwl has signed up students and alumni of major universities, colleges and technical schools across Canada. Employers can post job ads for jobseekers to view and e-mail candidates, or they can search among the tens of thousands of students, grads, and experienced workers to create a short list of candidates. Employers and job-seekers can interact confidentially without revealing direct contact information until ready to take that step.
Affordability
CareerOwl lets you register and search over candidates and message individual jobseekers for free. You can place an ad for a job in Canada for just $25, less than one tenth the cost of most internet recruiting services. Ads for foreign jobs are $100. Unlimited Canadian job postings for one office can be placed on CareerOwl for $500 per year. The corporate in-Canada unlimited rate is $1000.
How is this possible?
CareerOwl was founded by engineering, labour market, and e-commerce specialists from Canadian universities. They volunteered their expertise to create a student-graduate-industry connection. Why? Because they want to help Canadian talent find opportunities in Canada. And because they want this service to be affordable for even small businesses.
Confidentiality
You can place your ad and e-mail candidates without revealing your identity or company information. You can reveal as much or as little as you want, until you're ready to interview a candidate.
State of the art job search technology
"What makes CareerOwl special is its communication technology". . . The Globe and Mail. For example, students sign up and then stay on the system after they graduate because CareerOwl gives them their own virtual agent that e-mails them about jobs that meet their criteria.
More than online resumes - great careers
CareerOwl is a sophisticated search tool. Each student or grad has filled out an extensive profile allowing employers to search for the specific skills, education and talents they need. CareerOwl lets you create a filter to see only the candidates who meet your criteria. For example, if you only want to see Engineering grads from the University of British Columbia willing to work in BC, Alberta, Manitoba or Ontario, CareerOwl puts a list on your desk in moments. Or if you want to see a wide range of candidates, you can scan through as many profiles as you want, all without any charge.
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Look no further. You'll find it at CareerOwl Institute! - Canada's job-seeker website!
CareerOwl is a new Canada wide web-based careers web site founded as a non-profit service by faculty members at the Universities of Alberta ( UofA ), British Columbia ( UBC ) and Western Ontario ( UWO ). It is dedicated to helping post secondary students and alumni find careers. The site enables candidates to post resumes and other materials for employers to view and employers to make job postings. There is also a large information resource site.
Jobs matchmaker - CareerOwl Institute
A message from the President and Board Chair
Our Canadian job search web site is dedicated to easing the career finding problems of post secondary students and alumni ( all those with at least some university, college or technical school education ).
The main objectives of CareerOwl are:
- to enable students and alumni to obtain information conveniently about employment opportunities throughout the country.
- to improve the information available about job outcomes, thereby facilitating better education and planning.
- to help this country realize higher returns on tax dollars invested in post secondary education.
- to help combat the brain drain of specialized talent to the US by making it easier for Canadians with post secondary training everywhere to learn about opportunities here.
- to accomplish these objectives while respecting and protecting the services offered and the diverse objectives and administrative procedures of the campus Career and Co-op offices.
CareerOwl was founded by faculty members at the Universities of Alberta ( UofA ), British Columbia ( UBC ) and Western Ontario ( UWO ) with the encouragement and support of the current Presidents of these universities. It is run by a federally registered non-profit limited liability company. The President and other officers, and the members of the Advisory Boards and Board of Directors are current or past faculty members, students, and campus career placement and co-op staff members. They have enabled the initial development by committing their volunteer, private time and donating the funds to enable the system launch and operation of the system for an introductory period. Day-to-day operations are handled by employees of the 'electronic hiring hall'.
The term 'electronic hiring hall' was coined by Rodney Schneck, former Dean of Business at the UofA, back in the early months of 1994 when the initial concept was conceived by Peter Lawrence, a telerobotics expert at UBC.
In February 1998, David Bates, was engaged as Project Leader to create the system. Knowing the original objectives of the initiative and with the advice of university and industry specialists, David designed the present system,and it's subsequent software system. He was responsible for directing the teams who have developed the system from initial objectives to a fully functioning, web based hiring hall until the completion of the core system in February, 1999.
On the occasion of this introductory opening, we extend a very special thanks to a number of people:
We thank Elfleda Russell, an acclaimed Canadian artist and UBC grad, donated the CareerOwl logo.
We thank UBC students Kiyotsugu ( Kiyo ) Adachi and Jason Carter and UofA student Aileen Hooda for their programming and web site work on the Software System.
We thank the members of the student club CareerOwl Associates ( COA ) who have contributed their ideas about what students need, and their time to help test the system. The original CareerOwl Associates -- the UofA Chapter known as the "A-Team" -- developed the materials on the Resource Page. The UofA Business Faculty students responsible for this achievement are Susan Budge ( the "A-Team" Resource Page Group Leader ), Richard Watson ( President of the UofA Chapter of COA ), Mike Stansberry ( Vice President of the UofA Chapter of COA ), Aileen Hooda and Nathan Morcos. We are proud of their achievement and believe the materials they have collected and created will benefit students across this nation.
We also thank the UBC student volunteers Alan White ( President of the UBC Chapter of COA and Arts Faculty Liaison ), Jamie Paik ( Engineering Liaison ), Merek Siu ( Science Liaison ), and Tally Vertinsky ( Medicine Liaison ), and the UWO students Lori Williams and Jason Daw for volunteering to help get CareerOwl launched on their campus.
We are greatly indebted to the many campus Career and Co-op Centre Directors who contributed their time and expertise. Claudette de Bruijn, the Director of the Office of Placement Services and Business Cooperative Education Program of the Faculty of Business at the University of Alberta ( who is also a Member of the CareerOwl Institute Broad of Directors ) and Kelly Meechan, the Director of Co-operative Education, Engineering at the University of British Columbia have been particularly patient and helpful and generous with their personal time. We came to them initially with a dream of a better system for our students, but without the necessary knowledge of how the recruiting process functions. Computer experts Paul Chow and Tom Johnson donated valuable hardware and software systems assistance. Bill Hsia, a UBC grad of 1972 and the owner of Varsity Computers in Vancouver provided & supported those much needed computer equipment. We thank Kathleen Sayers and Emi Nakamura for ongoing advice and copy editing assistance. Finally, we thank Erik Diewert, our Business Manager, who donated his time to handle the multitude of day-to-day operational affairs involved in launching this effort.
We feel honoured to be associated with such a fine group of individuals.
Sincerely yours,
Alice Nakamura
President
CareerOwl Institute
Mike Percy
Chair of the CareerOwl
Board of Directors
At CareerOwl Institute, you'll discover an easy to use, information packed web site.
