Employment Legislation
This legislation protects workers in Ontario and starts with the letters ESA.
What is the Employment Standards Act?
This term is used to describe jobs that aren't posted online or advertised.
What is the 'hidden job market'?
These two things are the national symbols of Canada.
What is a beaver and the maple leaf?
This kind of resume lists all your work experience in reverse order.
What is a chronological resume?
These two Great Lakes border the Niagara Region.
What are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
This is what OHSA stands for.
What is Occupational Health & Safety Act?
This means the organization of workers formed for labour relations with the employer.
What is a labour union?
This is the date that Canada was 'born'; the date which united the three separate colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into a single Dominion within the British Empire.
What is July 1, 1867?
This kind of 'language' can account up to 55% of your first impression in an interview.
What is 'body language'?
This expression means to change your actions until you change your feelings.
What is 'fake it till you make it'?
These are the names of the 4 public holidays which occur after August.
What are Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day?
Employees are entitled to a minimum of 2 weeks of this per year of employment.
What is vacation pay?
These are the 4 Atlantic provinces of Canada.
What are New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island (PEI)?
Name 3 kinds of interviews that we have learned about.
What are in-person, 1:1, technical, phone, screening, panel, group, skype, second interviews.
This idiom means each person pays for him/herself when going to a restaurant or a movie etc (instead of one person paying for someone else).
What is "to go dutch"?
This is the definition of A.O.D.A.
What is Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
Autism is an example of this kind of disability.
What is an invisible disability?
This is how much money you would have if somebody gave you a toonie, two loonies, a quarter, 3 dimes and a nickel.
What is $4.60?
If you are bossy, this is a better word to describe yourself in an interview.
What is a leader?
This means I am ordering my coffee with two creams and two sugars.
What is a 'double double'?
These are 3 mandatory deductions from your paycheque.
What are CPP, EI and income tax.
This is the name of the 12 interview questions I gave you all as homework (only some of you completed it!)
What is the Dirty Dozen?
This is the number of time zones across Canada.
What are six? (from west to east: Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic, and Newfoundland)
Name 5 details that should NOT be on your resume.
What are date of birth, age, marital status, Social Insurance Number, status in Canada, picture.
This is the name of our new Premier of Ontario and the Party he represents.
What is Doug Ford and Progressive Conservatives?