Vancouver’s Fastest Growing Recruitment Firm announces new partnership with Canucks Sports & Entertainment
Vancouver, BC (November 20, 2017) - Impact Recruitment, British Columbia’s fastest-growing recruitment firm, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Canucks Sports & Entertainment. The multi-season agreement designates Impact as the Official...
Vancouver, FortisBC to co-operate on energy efficiency
Despite the City of Vancouver’s war on natural gas, the city and FortisBC, B.C.’s natural gas utility, have reached an agreement to work together on projects that will reduce Vancouver’s carbon footprint. The city and FortisBC announced November 24 that they have...
Vancouver falls to No. 3 as Canadian tech hub
Vancouver’s position as the country’s No. 2 destination for tech companies looking to establish operations in Canada fell victim to the backspace button in 2016. The West Coast city dropped to third place after Ottawa made gains in CBRE’s Scoring Canadian Tech Talent...
That’s a wrap!
What a year this has been for Impact Recruitment. The start of September marked the beginning of a new fiscal year for us, which (of course) meant that a party was in order to celebrate everything we've worked together to accomplish over the past 12 months. We've met...
Two years running!
Impact Recruitment Ranks No. 104 on the 2017 PROFIT 500 –Canadian Business unveils 29th annual list of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies – Vancouver (September 14, 2017) Canadian Business and PROFIT ranked Impact Recruitment No. 104 on the 29th annual PROFIT 500, the...
Is the grass greener?
Why do people change jobs, or want to change jobs? Working in the recruitment industry, we hear these questions on a daily (sometimes hourly!) basis. After all of our years of experience, we know that no one-size-fits-all answer exists. Making the decision to embark...
Impact hits the links – without leaving the office!
And just like that, it's June. Between meetings, interviews and welcoming a bunch of new faces to our team, it's been a crazy couple of months here at Impact! This time our sister company, Impactemps, was tasked with organizing the bi-monthly team building event. They...
A botched scavenger hunt, a broken elevator and a patio party
We take our parties pretty seriously here at Impact Recruitment: in October the Building Division got us to dress up in costumes and sing our hearts out at karaoke; in December our management team arranged an amazing Christmas party at Lift; mid-February the...
GVBOT enters partnership with BC government to boost exporting
The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade (GVBOT) has entered into a partnership worth $2.5 million with the provincial government intended to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) increase their export capacity, with a specific focus on Asia. “Our role is to...
Coast Guard hiring for 150 positions in BC, 500 across Canada
The Canadian Coast Guard has announced it is looking to fill 150 positions in B.C. to staff new lifeboat stations, ships and infrastructure projects. The federal agency is looking to add 500 positions across Canada. While that will not reverse the cuts made under the...
B.C.-backed plant creates jobs in West African community
Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) chairman Ian Telfer was in Senegal recently for the grand opening of one of his latest investments. It wasn’t a new gold mine, however, but a waste-to-energy plant that takes tires and plastics and turns them into fuel in the township of...
Uber and other ride-sharing services look set to get the green light in B.C. this year
Five years after its initial attempt to launch in Vancouver, Uber and other ride-sharing services look set to get the green light for B.C. roads this year. The province announced Tuesday it will be ready to roll out ride-sharing services by the holiday season of 2017,...