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Employer of Choice

  
 
STEC's Employer of Choice program is designed to assist tourism businesses across the province in attracting and retaining staff by providing employers with the tools and resources to engage in best practices, increase staff training, improve organizational human resources practices, and be recognized as a leader in the tourism sector.
 
All employers who engage in the program:
 
  • complete a comprehensive questionnaire that covers the seven functional areas of human resources (staffing; learning, training and development; compensation; employee and labour relations; professional practice; organizational effectiveness; and occupational health and safety).
  • encourage a minimum of 25% frontline and 25% managerial staff to participate in an employee opinion survey.
  • receive a detailed report outlining their organization's strength and potential.
 
 
The Employer of Choice program is available to all tourism businesses in Saskatchewan from May 1 to November 30 annually. Applications are evaluated from December through March, when STEC notifies applicants of their success. Employers receive their awards at the annual HOST tourism conference.
 
To register for the Employer of Choice program, visit www.steceoc.com.
 
To read about the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council's Employer of Choice program, visit http://discovertourism.ca/employers/employer_of_choice_program.aspx.
 
For  more information, contact Jan Rodda at (306) 933-7466 or jan.rodda@sasktourism.com
 
Quick Facts
Becoming an Employer of Choice is especially important in today’s economy and labour market, as an increasing number of employers are feeling the effects of:
 
  • low unemployment rates.
  • the pending retirement of baby boomers.
  • productivity challenges.
  • skills shortages.
  • recruitment and retention issues.




Industry Professionals Say
"
Not only is the Employer of Choice program beneficial to individual employers, it is also beneficial to Saskatchewan's economy as a whole.  The program's intent is to raise the bar on human resource management within the tourism sector, making these employers globally attractive.  Ideally, we hope to see potential employees  vying to work for these Employers of Choice in our industry, and, eventually, Saskatchewan being  recognized as the top place in Canada to work in tourism. "
Darcy Acton
Manager of Industry Human Resource Development
STEC