Click here to take the EmployerOne Survey Deadline: January 31, 2017
A community-driven business survey will help employers plan their future workforce.
EmployerOne will also help our community address any skills, training, education and labour gaps identified by employers.
The survey will be conducted January 2 to 31 in Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford. All employers will be encouraged to fill out the annual survey, which focuses on their workforce and human resource issues, needs and challenges.
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“We all want to ensure employers have access to a strong labour supply so they can continue to grow and prosper,” said Debra Mountenay, executive director of the EMO Workforce Planning and Development Board. “EmployerOne gives employers a voice to tell the community about the issues they’re facing and their hiring needs.”
Hearing directly from employers gives us a chance to address issues before they become big problems. - Debra Mountenay, executive director of the EMO Workforce Planning and Development Board
Mountenay added that the survey is a key tool to identify workforce issues that the community can try to respond to. “Hearing directly from employers gives us a chance to address issues before they become big problems.”
EmployerOne is supported by 40 partners including business, employment, education, workforce and economic development organizations. The EMO Workforce Planning and Development Board is the lead organization.
“Employers told us they’re tired of receiving similar surveys from different organizations,” Mountenay said. “As a community, we’ve listened and have developed a collaborative survey that employers will only be asked to do each January.”
The survey is open to all employers, from small to large in employee size, and across all sectors of the local economy, including non-profit and community organizations with paid staff.
Employers only have to fill EmployerOne in once, even if they receive it from more than one organization. The time needed to complete the survey will depend on the size of the business, anywhere from 15 minutes for small ones to an hour or so for large ones. Employers can save answers as they go along, returning later to complete the survey.
For more information about EmployerOne, contact Martin Withenshaw at the EMO Workforce Planning and Development Board, 519-672-3499 or martin@workforcedevelopment.ca or visit http://www.workforcedevelopment.ca/.
YouTube videos:
Elgin Middlesex and Oxford:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNs9rqKTkCM
Grand Erie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVdOnPgDKp0
Chatham/Kent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8bYFNZ-vvc
