Bombardier, Dalhousie, Winnipeg Airport among Canada's Top 100 Employers

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

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