CONTENTS / EDITOR’S LETTER
NEW YEAR; NEW SPOTLIGHT COPY & FEATURES
I’m a child of the ‘70s, so with all the industry chatter about retiring baby boomers and the head-scratching Generation Y, my ears perked up when talk at the HRD Roundtable turned to Gen X. Finally, it seemed, the middle child would get some face-time. But panellists for the event — centred on shaping the industry’s agenda for 2014 — focused on more than just the flight-risk we 30- and 40-somethings pose to the complacent employer. The roundtable hit on any and everything from the thorny question of executive compensation to the increasing call for HR managers to read and, indeed, understand the corporate balance sheet. The results of that exhaustive conversation start on page 16 and form the cornerstone for this our second issue of HRD. That discussion, we also hope, will inform your own decision-making in 2014 as the Canadian economy ramps up for growth and human resources rises to help it. Part of that formula for success is ensuring enough of the right workers are on the job. For a growing number of HRDs, that means leading their organizations through the minefield of outsourcing and foreign hiring. We cover that topic as well, with Tim Jacobs reporting on how other industry players are faring (pg. 28). HRD also turns its attention to profiling industry executives who are doing things quite frankly you should know about. LinkedIn HR leader Yasu Sato is a great example (pg. 34). We explore how he has leveraged a Canadian industrial relations degree from McGill to take his social media giant to the next level. Not bad for a Gen-Xer.
SENIOR EDITOR Vernon Clement Jones SENIOR WRITER Caitlin Nobes CONTRIBUTORS Iain Hopkins, Cameron Edmond, Aidan Devine, Tim Jacobs, Anna Sharratt, Gita Anand
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Cheers Vernon Clement Jones Senior Editor
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