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Recruiting

When:
Feb 09, 2011 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Where:

MaRS Auditorium 101 College St. Toronto, ON

This lecture covers the human resources policies and practices needed in an entrepreneurial context, including everyone’s favorite HR topics: hiring and firing! Find out why it’s so important to plan your human resources early on in the start-up process. Look at the legalities of hiring employees, the process of recruiting and how to manage and pay employees.

Part of the Entrepreneurship 101 Series




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Recruiting and Building Your A-team

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About the speaker

 
Margo Crawford

 

Margo is a dynamic business leader with 20+ years of experience in diverse and challenging environments. She is recognized as a human resources leader and is a recipient of the prestigious Vision Awards' Human Resources Professional of the Year.

Margo co-founded one of Ottawa's most successful start-up companies, Meriton Networks, and was instrumental in raising over $75M in equity financing over an eight-year period. She led one of the quickest M&A transactions that successfully closed in just over one month.

Margo also spent years in the public and non-profit sectors, where she led management negotiations with several union groups and sat on boards for non-profit organizations and sports groups. As a respected business thought leader, she is a frequent speaker at key industry events.

 

 
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