Talent Acquisition for the Digital Economy (TADE)

Employers can register to access the TADE toolbox, which includes:

• Digital Talent HR Toolkit: Download
  
  TADE’s step-by-step guide to attracting, hiring, onboarding, and retaining tech talent. For an insightful walkthrough of the toolkit with real-world examples, check out our videos: A Small Employers’ Guide to Engaging Tech Talent, Part One: Hiring and A Small Employers’ Guide to Engaging Tech Talent, Part Two: Onboarding and Retention

• Speed Connect: Looking for skilled tech talent? Small and medium Alberta businesses are invited to join us for TADE Speed Connect, a free virtual employment event, and connect with skilled digital job seekers. (Events were held October 28 and December 8, 2021).

• Candidate Assessment Tool: Sign up for access to eSkill, a talent assessment platform that offers web-based tests to help employers assess the skills of job applicants. Select from over 850 skills or job-based assessments employers can send to candidates. Click here for the TADE eSkill Quick Start Guide to get started.

• Alberta Labour Market Information: View informative videos highlighting the latest research on Alberta’s economy and labour market, including Alberta: Towards a Resilient Recovery from Digital Think Tank by ICTC.

• For More Alberta LMI visit the eTalent Canada Alberta economic dashboard, and for job details, outlook, and salary for the digital economy labour force, visit the job market information page

• Hear from leading experts as they join Alberta Impact with host Bryce Lambert for a 6-part TADE web series, Mobilizing Tech Talent: Tools to Grow, Attract, and Retain Albertans. Available in audio or video formats, and featuring episodes focussing on Alberta’s digital economy and tech talent:
  
  
  • Alberta’s AI/ML Ecosystem with Stephanie Enders of Amii 
  • Cyber Security and Privacy with Dr. Thomas Keenan 
  • A Hard Look at Soft Skills with Victoria Lenon, Workforce Consultant; Faun Rice, Manager of Research and Knowledge Mobilization with ICTC, and Khiran O'Neill, Research and Policy Analyst with ICTC 
  • Strategies for Attracting Tech Talent with Talent Acquisition Professional Debbie Mastel 
  • Talent Retention with Anette Ceraficki, Director of People at Kudos 
  • Technology Disruption and the Future of Work with Javier Lozano, Lozano Management 
  • For more visit Alberta Impact
    
    

• Digital Economy Microlearning Videos
  
  Learn about important considerations for employers in attracting and retaining talent in Alberta’s evolving digital economy with business innovation strategist Javier Lozano.
  
  
  • “Attracting Digital Talent Takes a Village” covers considerations and strategies that employers can use to attract the right digital talent.
  • “The Dislocation of Employee Engagement” helps with recognizing signs of employee disengagement and how employer awareness and flexibility is critical to organizational success.
  • Learn why diversity can improve your company’s performance and what can be done to foster inclusivity in “The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in the Digital Economy with Javier Lozano”
    
    

• EDI Microlearning Videos
  
  Join dynamic speaker Tina Varughese, cross-cultural communication and diversity expert, for a series of microlearning videos designed to help employers foster a psychologically safe environment where all employees are included and feel encouraged to contribute:
  
  
  • “Building Trust and Connection in Team Meetings” looks at how to get the most out of your meetings, whether in-person or remote.
  • “Delivering Performance Feedback: Cultural Differences in Communication” discusses communication considerations in diverse workplaces.
  • “Inclusive Leadership: Making Space for Introverts” examines how leaders can ensure everyone at the table has a voice.
    
    
• Learn about unconscious bias and how to make sure it is not clouding your company’s hiring decisions in "Unconscious Bias in the Hiring Process" with Shelly Elsliger, career, workplace success and inclusion coach.
  
• Presented by Chic Geek in partnership with TADE, view the “How to Craft a DEI Policy that Works for You” forum to hear from panelists with extensive backgrounds in developing, crafting and nurturing some of Canada’s most successful and tangible DEI policy work for startups, scaleups, and organizations in the public and private sector.
  
• EDI Tool: Gauge your organization's place on ICTC's Equity Diversity and Inclusion Spectrum by completing our assessment. Get a Summary Report that describes your current stage and identifies Next Steps – the actions needed to move your organization to the next Stage on the spectrum.
  

Download the Employer Toolkit