Yes, certainly. Thank you for the opportunity to add some details.
In March 2018, in co-operation with the University of Montreal and six departments, we organized a speed staffing event at the University of Montreal. We had chosen 56 positions to be staffed. Some of these positions were temporary, others were indeterminate, and others were linked to the cooperative education program. These positions were advertised in advance. We took the time to simplify the language, so that there would be no complications on that side, and so that the type of jobs we were offering would be clear to students and new graduates.
Three hundred people took part in that event. There were 67 on-site interviews. There was a whole system to coordinate and plan the event. We determined which people had the necessary skills for a given position. There was an on-site interview with a manager. When the manager indicated he had chosen a given candidate, we fingerprinted him or her and filled out the necessary security forms. At the end of this process, the candidate received a job offer on the spot. Of course, that offer was conditional on the result of the security investigation and language requirements, but the candidate knew that he had gotten a job. We received a multitude of positive comments and this event was a success. It was a pilot project.
You need a lot of partnerships. Currently, such programs allow us to go from transactions to relationships. We need such partnerships to understand to upstream needs, so that things can be aligned properly and candidates can be matched with positions according to their qualifications. People were surprised because in 35 minutes they received a conditional job offer.