Category: Business

Family Dental Centre campaign gives us a reason to smile.

  • Posted by Shawn Patriquin, on May 4, 2010

For the most part we are a pretty humble shop that relies on the success of the work that we create for our clients as our celebratory reward. However, every once and while comes an opportunity where we have to 'toot' our own horns. Today is one of those days.

We received a letter today informing our firm that we have won a Silver award in the Summit International Creative Awards - Newspaper Campaign Category for our recent 'Smile Transformation' campaign for the Family Dental Centre.

The Summit Creative Awards recognizes worldwide the work of advertising, interactive, video production, graphic design and public relations companies with annual billings under $30 million a group that is often shadowed in national and international competitions by larger companies with multi-million dollar budgets. The awards program was launched in 1994 to reinforce the importance of these...

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Canada’s First Job Auction Site

  • Posted by Charlotte Barker, on May 27, 2009

What are you worth as an employee? I just read an article in The Globe and Mail about Canada’s first job auction site. As we know, the recession has made it increasingly difficult for people to find work so they have been turning to innovative and creative ways to land jobs. The newest method? On-line auctions.

A job auction is set up for employers to post job openings and employees seeking work to bid on them. This method has become increasing popular in countries around the world, but Canada had not adopted it until now.

Filip Narula and Robert Hjelmberg, a pair of university students from Sweden, got the idea after reading about a similar site in Germany. There was already a site set up in Sweden, so after noticing Canada didn’t have one in play, they jumped on the opportunity to start the site. Although they admittedly don’t know much about Canada – only being here once to...

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