TalentOyster employers named "Best for Diversity"

This past week four different TalentOyster employers (three of them original TalentOyster employers) were named as one of Canada's top 45 "Best Employers for Diversity" by Mediacorp Canada. Loblaw Companies Limited, Mount Sinai Hospital, Xerox Canada and Telus all made this exclusive list for 2011.

Congratulations to all these organizations for winning recognition for their efforts to improve the diversity of their workforces in the past year and commitment to continuing in the year ahead.

Recognition of organizations making a real effort on diversity is a good thing, if, for no other reason then it helps get the message on the importance of diversity into the mainstream media and consciousness. But positive recognition is also good because it encourages all companies to evaluate their own efforts in order to compete with others.

With our countries demographics being what they are, and with the economy continuing to rebound, expanding the diversity of your workforce becomes less about doing the "right thing" and more about doing what must be done. Progressive employers, like the ones on TalentOyster, know that if they want to actually hire the best candidates available they must include diversity groups as part of their candidate search. Those companies, like the ones listed as Canada's best diversity employers are well positioned to continue to be successful because they are simply more committed to diversity, the only real source of future labour force growth in Canada.

To read more about "Canada's Best Diversity Employers" check out the story in the Globe and Mails Report on Business here