Inclusion Works!

Here's a trivia question. What's the fastest growing demographic in Canada, a group that represents the largest potential contribution to the labour market?

If you guessed Aboriginal Youth, you're right. And yet mainstream employers have been slow to connect with this important human resource. That's where the Aboriginal Human Resource Council (AHRC) enters the picture. AHRC seeks to link the growing poll of trained, educated and eager Aboriginal workers with career and employment opportunities.

In May AHRC will be hosting Inclusion Works, its annual job fair and Aboriginal HR conference, in Montreal - and Stonecircle will be there to help. Jennifer David and Kory Goulais are preparing 20 detailed case studies on businesses that have incorporated policies or practices that encourage Aboriginal inclusion and Aboriginal recruitment and retention.These will be presented at Inclusion Works to stimulate some discussion and creative thinking about the challenges, successes and issues in Aboriginal HR, under the capable facilitation of Aarluk's Victor Tootoo.

INCLUSION WORKS '11: May 3-5, 2011. Le Centre Sheraton, 1201 Boulevard Rene-Levesque West, Montreal, QC.