Record number of applicants, says Mediacorp
Bombardier Aerospace, Dalhousie University, High Liner Foods and Winnipeg Airports Authority are just a few of the employers that made the 2012 Canada’s Top 100 Employers list.
To develop this year's list, Mediacorp Canada examined the recruitment histories of more than 75,000 employers across Canada that it tracks for its job search site, Eluta.ca. From this group, editors invited 12,000 of the fastest-growing employers to apply, plus another 5,000 companies and organizations in industries it wanted to examine more closely. More than 2,750 employers started this year's application process, with the final applicant pool up 15 per cent over last year's total.
"We received a record number of employer applications this year," said Richard Yerema, author of Canada's Top 100 Employers at Mediacorp Canada. "We saw double-digit growth from all regions of the country, across industry categories and especially from the public sector. We have been organizing this competition for 12 consecutive years and have never seen this level of attention from employers."
The surge in interest can be explained by Canada's labour market, where the unemployment rate in many key occupations is less than four per cent, said Tony Meehan, publisher at Mediacorp.
"The steady march of demographics is bringing many employers to the realization that they need to become more attractive places to work — not just to ensure future growth but simply to maintain the operations they have now."
Each winner is graded by Mediacorp on eight areas: physical workplace; work atmosphere and social; health, financial and family benefits; vacation and time off; employee communications; performance management; training and skills development; and community involvement.
The 2012 Canada’s Top 100 Employers list:
•Accenture
•Adobe
•Agriculture Financial Services
•Agrium
•Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries
•AMEC Americas
•Bank of Canada
•Bayer
•B.C. Public Service
•Bennett Jones
•Bombardier Aerospace
•British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch
•Business Development Bank of Canada
•Cameco
•Canadian Security Intelligence Service
•Capital District Health Authority
•Carswell, division of Thomson Reuters Canada
•Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto
•Cementation Canada
•Ceridian Canada
•Certified General Accountants Association of Canada
•College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
•Compass Group Canada
•Dalhousie University
•Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada
•Desjardins, Mouvement des caisses
•Diavik Diamond Mines
•Digital Extremes
•ElllisDon
•Enbridge
•Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
•General Motors of Canada
•Georgian College
•Goldcorp
•Golder Associates
•Great Little Box Company
•Higher Liner Foods
•Hospital for Sick Children
•HP Advanced Solutions
•Human Resources & Skills Development Canada
•ISM Canada
•Johnson
•KPMG
•Kraft Foods Canada
•L’Oréal Canada
•Ledcor Group of Companies
•Loblaw Companies
•Magna Electric
•Manitoba Hydro
•Manitoba Lotteries
•Manulife Financial
•Mars Canada
•McGill University
•Medtronic of Canada
•Molson Coors Canada
•Mountain Equipment Co-op
•National Energy Board
•NB Power Holding
•Nexen
•Next Level Games
•Nuance Communications Canada
•Office of the Auditor General of Canada
•OMNI health Care
•Ontario Public Service
•OpenText
•City of Ottawa
•Pfizer Canada
•PricewaterhouseCoopers
•Procter & Gamble
•Rescan Environmental Services
•Royal Bank of Canada
•SAS Institute (Canada)
•Saskatchewan Government Insurance
•SaskTel
•Shell Canada
•Siemens Canada
•Simon Fraser University
•St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
•Stantec Consulting
•Statistics Canada
•Stikeman Elliott
•Stryker Canada
•Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
•TD Bank Group
•Telus
•Toronto Hydro
•Toronto International Film Festival
•Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
•Union Gas
•University of Toronto
•Vancouver City Savings Credit Union
•Vancouver Island Health Authority
•WestJet Airlines
•Winnipeg Airports Authority
•Workers' Compensation Board of Nova Scotia
•World Vision Canada
•Xerox Canada
•Yellow Pages Group
•Yukon Hospital
