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Over the past year, companies very quickly made the change to a remote workforce. While we initially thought this would be a short term situation, working remotely has become the current normal, and businesses need a reliable recruiting process and solid training techniques to properly prepare their employees. In this workshop, we will focus on getting back to the basics of recruiting and how to build your foundation before you even talk to the first potential candidate.
Our specialists will discuss how to pivot to recruiting remotely and why behaviour-based interview techniques are more important than ever. You will learn how to apply the interview techniques in today's reality and also learn some tips and tricks on the best recruiting platforms.
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 Debbie Opoku-Mulder, Inside Mental Health
Debbie is a Registered Psychotherapist, speaker and mental health advocate in Simcoe County. She owns and operates Inside Mental Health which offers Mental health trainings and seminars, speaking engagements and HR/organizational consultation.
Sharing personal journeys and expertise, Debbie helps to break the stigma surrounding psychological health and addiction. She gives people the necessary tools they need to structure their life around their mental health, giving them the ability to live the life they imagined and recognize that they are not alone on this journey.
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 Marty Rabinovitch, Devry Smith Frank LLP
Marty is a partner at Devry Smith Frank LLP and heads the firm’s employment law group. Marty’s practice focuses on representing employers with respect to issues which arise in the workplace. He regularly advises employers with respect to drafting employment contracts, discrimination, harassment and workplace violence policies, termination of employees, severance package negotiations, human rights issues, workplace bullying and harassment, disability and employment insurance matters.
Marty has extensive employment litigation experience. He regularly attends at the Superior Court, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and the Ontario Ministry of Labour. He has also represented clients at the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Marty has attended at examinations for discovery, mediations, pre-trial conferences, and trials. He has appeared before Masters and Superior Court judges on various motions and a wide variety of other matters. He speaks regularly about employment law issues and has written extensively on employment law.
Marty is a graduate of Queen’s University (B.A.H. in Political Studies) and the University of Windsor (LL.B.), where he volunteered at Community Legal Aid and Pro Bono Students Canada. Marty received multiple academic awards from Queen’s University and was the recipient of the 2008 Gavel Award from the University of Windsor for the best written judgment of a student judge presiding over the Law 1 moots. He also participated in the Laskin Moot competition, where he presented his arguments in French. Marty is fluent in French and provides legal services to both English and French-speaking employers. He is an avid tennis player, enjoys watching and umpiring baseball, and has traveled extensively in Europe. He is certified to teach baseball umpiring clinics through the Ontario Baseball Association.
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 Sharon Foster, Executive Online Solutions
Sharon has a BA (Honours) in History from Queen's University in Kingston. After graduating from Queen's, she worked as an Executive Assistant, supporting executives in various industries including television, banking, international sales, construction, medical offices, and a County Library system. Sharon was also a licensed Real Estate salesperson for 3 years. Each of these industries taught her its own unique challenges and knowledge.
In November 2009, Sharon decided she needed a change, and established her Virtual Assistant business. At that time, she had worked for over 25 years in an office environment, but with young children Sharon wanted to stay at home and set her own hours rather than commute and leave the kids in daycare. Sharon took Donna Douglas’ course “Go Venture”, which helped her launch the business. She loved the flexibility of having her own business and helping her clients grow theirs. Sharon has become more and more familiar with the online world, and is always eager to learn new skills, processes and systems. Over the years, she has acquired other Virtual Assistant industry qualifications, including Bookkeeping and Online Business Management.
In the “non-virtual world”, Sharon excelled at organization of office systems, and making things run smoothly. Her goal always has been to increase productivity by setting up systems and procedures. She loves the challenge of solving problems.
Sharon moved to Barrie to escape the rat race that is Toronto in January 2000, and she has happily lived here since. Both her kids are now grown up, and her youngest is ready to leave for Waterloo in the Fall, so her and her husband will be empty nesters
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