A Talent Retrospective: Celebrating 15 years, 10,000 Internships...
and Counting
Over the years, our awards ceremony has grown into a highly anticipated event in the business community. We have seen hundreds of nominations from interns and employers, eager to share their stories of success and gratitude.
Last year’s Awards Ceremony centered on talent – we put our people in the spotlight to showcase the highly skilled and diverse talent that are representative of Career Edge Organization interns and employers.
This year we’ll be taking a retrospective look at 15 years of shared success as we recognize the achievements of the thousands of careers we collectively helped launch since 1996, celebrate where we are today and look forward to where the year ahead will lead us.
Each year, attendees find there is much more to the occasion than recognizing achievement. This year’s Achievement Awards will bring together hundreds of leaders in the business community as well as our Alumni and Interns, who represent the leaders of tomorrow. It’s a time to share, connect and celebrate.
As in previous years, this year, winners of Career Edge Organization’s Achievement Awards will receive original pieces of artwork purchased from Supplying Sponsor, Petroff Gallery. In recognizing Canadian talent, we are proud to also support these talented, local Canadian artists.
The Achievement Awards
Do you know of a star intern? All Career Edge Organization award nomination forms will be available online as of December 15, 2010. Please check back at that time to submit your nomination.
Award nominations will only be accepted from Wednesday, December 15, 2010 up until Tuesday, January 4, 2011.
Program Awards
All program awards are determined by the total number of internships hosted by each employer in each category. The winner in each category will be the employer that hosted the most internships in the past year.
This year, we will be presenting the following six program awards to our Host organizations within the following categories:
Career Edge Program Award - Large Enterprise
Career Edge Program Award - Medium Enterprise
Career Edge Program Award - Small Enterprise
Career Bridge Program Award - Private Sector
Career Bridge Program Award - Public Sector (Large Enterprise)
Career Bridge Program Award - Public Sector (Small/Medium Enterprise)
Ability Edge Program Award
Intern of the Year Awards
The Intern of the Year Awards recognize the outstanding contribution and performance of an individual intern from each of our three paid internship programs:
TD Bank Intern of the Year Award - Career Edge
Scotiabank Intern of the Year Award - Ability Edge
RBC Intern of the Year Award - Career Bridge
Nominations are submitted by organizations that hosted the intern and winners will be determined by a team within Career Edge Organization.
Manulife Financial Mentor of the Year Award
The Manulife Financial Mentor of the Year Award recognizes the outstanding contribution and performance of a mentor/coach from any of our three paid internship programs: Career Edge, Ability Edge or Career Bridge. Nominations are submitted by the interns, and winners will be determined by a team within Career Edge Organization.
Most Valued Internship Experience (MoVIE) Award
This award recognizes a host organization that demonstrated leadership in providing a supportive environment, facilitated personal and professional growth, and promoted opportunities to allow interns to contribute to the organization thereby enhancing the internship experience. Interns of our three paid internship programs can nominate their own host organizations and a winner will be selected by the Career Edge Organization team based on a multi-media nomination that will include video, audio and multi-media components.
Click here to watch the video nomination of our 2010/11 MoVIE Award Winner!
About Career Edge Organization
Career Edge Organization, a national not-for-profit, fosters diversity, inclusion and employability by connecting employers to diverse, quality talent through three career-launching paid internship programs: Career Edge for recent graduates, Ability Edge for recent graduates with self-declared disabilities, and Career Bridge for internationally qualified professionals. Since 1996, Career Edge Organization has worked with over 1000 reputable employers across Canada to provide over 10,000 meaningful work opportunities through paid internships.
Career Edge Organization provides strategic, cost effective and flexible staffing solutions, including on-line access to candidates, payroll administration and HR expertise, and best practice sharing regarding recruitment, retention and integration of recent graduates and internationally qualified professionals.
For more information about us, please visit our website: http://overview.careeredge.ca/.
To engage in discussions on issues related to diversity, inclusion and employability please visit our blog at http://www.careeredge.ca/ceoblog.