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Category Investors Date 11/9/2006 |
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OFNTSC joins Equitek Diversity Outreach Network
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Partners with Equitek and working.com to broaden
employment network’s reach to Aboriginal peoples |
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(TORONTO) – Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation (OFNTSC) is pleased to join Equitek Employment Equity Solutions and CanWest MediaWorks Inc. as the newest partner in diversity to help enhance the reach of the Equitek Diversity Outreach Network to an extensive listing of Aboriginal groups.
Through the Equitek Diversity Outreach Network, OFNTSC’s extensive client network of 134 First Nations groups, 15 Tribal Councils and various Provincial/Territorial Organizations will receive daily electronic delivery of job listings across Canada from Equitek’s extensive clientele of top corporations, CanWest MediaWork’s network of twelve Canadian newspapers and working.com.
Each day, Equitek distributes hundreds of new and diverse employment opportunities to over 450 outreach partners. Subscriptions are available exclusively through CanWest MediaWorks and working.com.
“The OFNTSC is delighted to provide our clients with reach into the extensive network CanWest and Equitek provide through the Diversity Outreach Network,” Michael Nepinak, Executive Director, Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation.
The goal of the partnership is to help raise awareness of career opportunities by incorporating the services of the OFNTSC and the Equitek Diversity Outreach Network into one initiative for the benefit of the First Nations Community, including young, post-secondary, First Nation graduates.
“Our network of corporate customers will benefit enormously from our new partnership in diversity with the OFNTSC which will provide extended reach to Aboriginal candidates,” said William Stewart, Director of Canadian Operations, Equitek Employment Equity Solutions.
Earlier this year, working.com and Equitek announced their partnership in diversity to provide the full-service outreach program to all designated groups across the country. The partnership, aimed at allowing Canadians to make diversity a living value, provides an all-inclusive outreach network that distributes employment opportunities to a wide group of partners representing aboriginal peoples, visible minorities, the physically disabled, women and internationally-trained professionals
“working.com is pleased that the OFNTSC has joined us as a partner in diversity, to broaden the diversity network of job seekers we can reach out to with job opportunities,” said Kim Peters, General Manager, working.com. “Through working.com and the Working pages of CanWest’s newspapers, we are proud to play a role in assisting organizations across the country to increase diversity in their workforces and to find the most qualified individuals for their positions.”
Equitek Employment Equity Solutions is Canada’s first and foremost company to provide outreach solutions and the pioneer of Strategic Diversity Sourcing. Equitek has a decade of experience assisting Canadian corporations and institutions to augment their recruitment initiatives by providing an inclusive outreach network of diverse career organizations that are not available through traditional recruitment methods.
About working.com
working.com is 74% indirectly owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp, (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS.SV and CGS.NV, www.canwestglobal.com), and 26% indirectly owned by the CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund (TSX: CWM.UN; www.cwmincomefund.com. CanWest Global Communications Corp., an international media company, is Canada's largest media company and largest publisher of daily newspapers. The Company also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in free-to-air and subscription-based television networks, out-of-home advertising, web sites, and radio stations and networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
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For more information, please contact:
Dennis Martel
Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation
Director of Communications
ext. 256
William Stewart
Equitek Employment Equity Solutions
Tammy Bender
CanWest MediaWorks
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