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Great Places to Work in Canada During 2020 

The editors of Canada’s Top 100 Employers compared each company’s policies to other similar organizations in the sector and region and looked at the leadership qualities. The applications were judged by eight key factors: the physical workplace, benefits, work atmosphere, vacation, performance management, employee communications, community involvement, and training and skills development. This annual competition …

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Good Salaries Earned by “Non-Techies” Working in Tech Jobs

You want to get a job in the tech sector, but you don’t have a technical background. Good news! The tech industry doesn’t only hire software engineers and coders. Those who have studied business and the humanities can usually find an open position at a tech company in areas of management, social media, human resources, …

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Minimum Wage for People Working in Alberta Rises to $15 Per Hour

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Alberta has raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour and is the first province in Canada to do so. It rose in stages, beginning in 2015 from $10.20 and fulfilled a long time NDP promise. The increase in pay equals a raise for close to 300,000 workers in Alberta, according to the Public Interest …

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Petroleum Engineering Is America’s Highest-Paying University Major

Over 44 million U.S. residents collectively have an astounding $1.5 trillion in student debt. With the record-breaking, ever-increasing tuition bills and extreme level of debt, the return-on-investment of a degree is most important. Students can make the most out of their investment by deciding on a major that will direct them to a stable and …

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Thousands of US Jobs Created by Immigrant Tech Founders

The United States economy depends on startups for most of America’s net job creation, and immigrants begin many of the new companies. The National Foundation for American Policy released a study recently showing that 50 out of 91 of the country’s $1 billion startup companies had at least one foreign-born founder. An average of over …

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