Human Resources committee  Certainly both allegorical and empirical research have indicated that more people use social media in order to find out what jobs are out there and add up their skills. So as more businesses—and even small businesses trying to preserve resources—are shifting everything to an onl

Human Resources committee  Did you say BIOTECanada?

Human Resources committee  They're two different organizations. BIOTECanada is the member industry association for biotechnology. BioTalent Canada was founded in 1997 as a sector council program.

Human Resources committee  At that time, as far as I know, no.

Human Resources committee  Certainly in terms of monetizing a lot of its products and services, there was much more going on from 1997 to 2001. Then they shifted the other way. Specifically for the people we were trying to approach, which were students and unemployed or underemployed people, the cost for s

Human Resources committee  Yes, through both our job board and some of our products and services, we have a cost-per-use recovery method.

Human Resources committee  That is correct.

Human Resources committee  BioTalent Canada, as it was actually founded, was a breakaway from BIOTECanada, as you mentioned. It was a subcommittee, and then it became an autonomous organization. Our board of directors and our bylaws mandate that we have 15 to 18 industry people, people who are actively in

Human Resources committee  They may be indirectly, perhaps, but not directly.

Human Resources committee  The direct beneficiary of our work is the unemployed job seeker who's seeking a job in biotech in Canada.

Human Resources committee  That's correct. We present two things. Number one is the path of least resistance towards a biotech job. We also do a great deal of branding for biotech as an alternative career path. Immigrants and some Canadians who are not able to be credentialled or licensed in their chosen p

Human Resources committee  I think for the biotech model, you have a disparity. You have the 20% that are the really super-big companies, such as the pharmaceuticals, which require a great deal of regulatory lobbying and a great deal of advocacy on their part. That's a great deal of what the member associa

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. We're currently investigating them now and I certainly didn't want to state that there was absolutely no way that BioTalent Canada or other sector councils could find the funding. However, more specifically, in terms of how each of these verticals is going to pursue f

Human Resources committee  Currently we have a two-arm approach in terms of the way that we operate. We certainly had a core fund through the sector council program, which is no longer going to be existing, but in terms of our labour market information studies and all of our products and tools that we prod

Human Resources committee  For the biotech sector, essentially the bio-economy of the biotech sector is arranged in five clusters, which are regional clusters across Canada. So I would say if you asked me when I talked—