BC Success Stories on Recruitment Strategies

How you recruit and select people can reduce your turnover, improve employee morale and increase productivity. Learn from tourism operators in BC that have successfully applied exemplary recruitment practices in their businesses and have benefited from it.

• Arbutus Ridge Golf Club: Eco-friendly workplace instrumental in recruiting and retaining staff 
  
  
• Buchan Hotel: Recruiting from untapped labour sources
  
  
• Coast Hotel Abbotsford: Recruiting people with disabilities
  
  
• Copper Point Golf Course: Staff exchange program means year-long employment for staff
  
  
• Custom House: Targeted recruiting of back-to-work mothers and mature workers
  
  
• Delta Sun Peaks Resort: Hiring international students to compliment business needs
  
  
• Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel: Attracting the echo-boom generation
  
  
• Horne Lake Adventures: Success equals good product, excellent people
  
  
• Hyatt Regency Vancouver: People with disabilities make qualified and capable employees
  
  
• Nimmo Bay: Treating employees with respect is the key to attracting them
  
  
• PR1ME Strategies: Good recruitment strategies help become an employer of choice
  
  
• Prestige Hotels & Resorts: Hiring foreign workers to fulfill labour needs
  
  
• Red Onion: Hiring emotionally challenged workers gives back to the community
  
  
• Rosewood Hotel Georgia: Hiring people with disabilities
  
  
• Siwash Lake Guest Ranch: Turn guests into staff using temporary foreign workers program
  
  
• Starbucks: Turning troubled youth into good employees
  
  
• Terracentric Coastal Adventures: Hiring local Aboriginal workers
  
  
• Vancouver Aquarium: Being a "green" employer increases attractiveness to future employees and retain current staff
  
  
• Vancouver International Airport: Recruiting people with disabilities
  
  
• Westin Grand Vancouver: Recruiting people with disabilities
  
  
• Whistler Blackcomb: Recruiting people with disabilities
  
  
• Wickaninnish Inn: Hiring foreign workers is well worth the time and energy required

For more tips on recruiting good hires, visit the Recruitment section.