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Talentlogix Principal Consultant, Jules Fauteux receives CMC Fellowship
At the recent Certified Management Consultants (CMC) of Atlantic Canada annual reception, Talentlogix Principal Consultant Jules Fauteux was reognized as a Fellow, FCMC. A fomer colleague, Alex MacPhee, was also awarded a followship. Both FCMCs were introduced by the Association President, Kathy-Jane Elton. The Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation is the profession's only international certification mark, recognized in more than 40 countries. It represents a commitment to the highest standards of consulting and adherence to the ethical canons of the profession. The FCMC designation is granted to CMC's who have served the profession and their clients in an exemplary manner.
5/4/2011
Talentlogix Principal Consultant Leads PD Summit Discussion
This marks the third year that Jules Fauteux, Talentlogix Principal Consultant facilitated a discussion at the Professional Development Summit held at Saint Mary's University. This year the discussion topic was: How High Is Too High? a discussion of pricing and compensation for professionals. The session was attended by about 40 individuals and feedback was very positive. There was good interaction among participants.
Presentation materials can be found by clicking here.
9/16/2010
Talentlogix Becomes Nova Scotia Come to Life Charter Member
Talentlogix joined with 55 other business and Premier Darrell Dexter in Wolfville, Nova Scotia to sign the Nova Scotia Come to Life Charter. "We are proud to be ambassadors for our province and to share the tremendous story we have to tell about where we work and live so others can do business with us and help grow our region," said Talentlogix Prinicpal Consultant Jules Fauteux after signing the charter. Visit www.novascotialife.com for more information.
"A strong economy in Nova Scotia depends upon more trade and investment with other parts of the world," said Premier Dexter. He and Jules Fauteux shared a story about both being residents of Cole Harbour during the ceremony.
4/4/2010
Talentlogix Presents at Professionals Day Summit 2010
Jules Fauteux of Talentlogix is a featured presenter at the Professionals Day Summit May 5th in Halifax. His presentation is entitled "Off With Her Head!" a discussion of moral and ethical dilemmas in the professional workplace. The topic explores: Examples of questionable organizational behaviour; Individual day to situations where professionals face ethical decisions; Codes of conduct from our professional associations and what they accomplish; What you can do to manage your way through situations that cross your ethical boundaries.
3/27/2010
Talentlogix Signs Alliance Partner Agreement with Export Nova Scotia Inc. (ExportNS)
Talentlogix Inc. joined Export Nova Scotia Inc. in its Alliance Partner Program. Export Nova Scotia Inc. (ExportNS) provides sustainable transformation solutions to Caribbean governments. "A company's value is founded on its human capital. It's great to have Talentlogix as one of our Alliance Partners. They bring valuable professional people solutions to our alliance," said David Gough, President of ExportNS.
ExportNS Advisory Board Chair Jim Paris added, "People will be very important in ExportNS projects. Talentlogix focuses on helping organizations become talent magnets so they attract, retain, and deploy the right workforce. Welcome to the ExportNS Alliance Partner Program." The Alliance Partner Program includes various companies in Management Consulting, Information Technology, Product Development, Communication, Change Management, Project Management, Engineering, and Manufacturing.
"We are excited to join the ExportNS Alliance Partner Program. Our expertise and solutions are ready," said Jules Fauteux, Principal Consultant of Talentlogix. "We bring talent strategy, workforce planning, recruitment, engagement, and business change services to the relationship. We look forward to being part of this innovative venture."
11/28/2009
Talentlogix Partners with The Work Itself Group
Talentlogix has signed an exclusive agreement with The Work Itself Group to deliver Fake Work and Real Work Workshops and related consulting services in Atlantic Canada and Ontario.
Research, tools, and expertice from this partnership will be leveraged for mutual advantage. The recent book Fake Work published by Gaylan Nielson and Brent Peterson has been well received in the local market and is complementary of consulting work underway through Talentlogix.
Visit the Fake Work blog for more information or email info@talentlogix.com
9/15/2009
Talentlogix Supports ITANS and PMI Golf Tournaments
Talentlogix was pleased to support the Information Technology Industry Alliance of Nova Scotia annual golf tournament with donated prizes and in kind services. In addition support for the Project Management Institute Tournament was provided through donated prizes. Both tournaments were held at Granite Spings and were considered very successful. Talentlogix also provided prizes for the Government of Nova Scotia IT golf touranament.
6/20/2009
IT Heroes and Computing Museum Fellows Featured
In Touch with Talentlogix featured two organizations in the April edition. This news piece contains links as referenced in the newsletter articles.
Many companies, governments, professional groups, associations, and societies offer awards to recognize distinguished contributions. One such organization is the Computer History Museum from the heart of Sillicon Valley. The Museum's vision is to explore the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. They set out to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age and play a unique role in the history of the computing revolution.
Each year over the past twenty years, the Museum has honored individuals who have made revolutionary and lasting contributions to the development of computing as Museum Fellows. The list is a who's who of the information era featuring 48 legends.
With a current 10% female membership and an overall average year of birth of early 1931 this list of notables is museum material for sure. A more contemporary list of IT Heroes exists courtesy of SOA Weekly magazine who's informal nomination process generated a list of 150 All Time i-Technology Heroes.
5/3/2009
Talentlogix Presents Career and Assignment Nirvana
The Professional Development Summit - Building on Best Practices Conference - is a learning event produced by the combined efforts of leading Professional Associations including the Canadian Association of Manageent Consultants, The Project Management Institute, The Canadian Information Processing Society, The International Institute of Business Analysts, and the Information Technology Systems Management Foundation.
Jules Fauteux of Talentlogix was asked to deliver a presentation entitled "Career and Assignment Nirvana - How to develop and maintain the career and assignment portfolio that's most right for you."
Presentation materials include the slide deck and workbook available as downloads.
4/15/2009
Talentlogix Welcomes Dr. Hal Richman
Talentlogix Inc. welcomes Hal Richman to the team. Hal Richman, Ph.D. is a Principal Consultant at Talentlogix focused on learning and results based management. Hal has over 16 years of national and international consulting experience, including a long term assignment in learning and results based management at the United Nations Development Programme. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester. Welcome Hal!
4/7/2009
Talentlogix Welcomes April MacLeod
Talentlogix Inc. is delighted to welcome April MacLeod to the team. April MacLeod is a Principal Consultant at Talentlogix focused on youth engagement, and marketing. Throughout her 12 year career, she has worked with organizations to develop and implement programs and events for youth and has worked to connect companies with their future workforce. She has delivered assignments at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education, Saint Mary's Business Development Centre, Career Experts, Dalhousie University Faculty of Management, and her own primary entrepreneurial initiative Flip Recruiting. April is a graduate of Dalhousie University. Welcome April!!
4/1/2009
Talentlogix Opens New On Line Career Centre
Talentlogix Inc. has partnered with Maxhire.net to provide a new on line Career Centre to manage Talentlogix opportunities and candidates. Talentlogix can also offer a hosted service to its retained clients as a value added service After an evaluation of alternative solutions, the Maxhire solution was chosen. Implementation and data conversion was completed on schedule and the system is now live.
Clients, jobs, and candidates can all be managed through the integrated solution. The product is based on leading edge Microsoft. Net technology. Maxhire is a Canadian company located in Vancouver. Their solution was chosen over the leading alternative, Taleo, basd on selectoin criteria and after a trial perdiod. A copy of the evaluation is available in .pdf format.
3/6/2009
Talentlogix Supports National ACE Student Entrepreneur Competition
Talentlogix Principal Jules Fauteux recently participated as a judge at the Regional competition of the 2009 National ACE Student Entrepreneur Program in Halifax. "It was a very inpiring experience to see young people demonstrate so much comittment, business skill, and enthusiasm. After participatin in ACE I am even more confident about our country's economic future. These kids are good. It was great to be able to support the program as a judge." exclaimed Mr. Fauteux after the competition.
The Student Entrepreur program provides a vital service to full-time university and college students, who also operate a business. Through programming and competition, ACE creates a platform for these young entrepreneurs to network with like-minded students, showcase their business on a regional and national stage to top executives and leading entrepreneurs, receive relevant training and leverage valuable mentorship opportunities to accelerate the growth of their business.
1/8/2009
Talentlogix becomes a corporate member of the Information Technology Alliance of Nova Scotia (ITANS)
Talentlogix has made an investment to demonstrate its commitment to promoting the growth and development of the information technology sector in Nova Scotia by joining The Information Technology Alliance of Nova Scotia (ITANS). Jules Fauteux, Principal Consultant at Talentlogix was an original member of the ITANS predecessor organization known as the Software Industry Alliance of Nova Scotia (SIANS) back in the 1980’s. Since then ITANS has emerged as an important force in the IT sector and Talentlogix has shown its support through new membership.
ITANS is a non-profit organization committed to promoting the growth and development of the information technology Industry in Nova Scotia. ITANS achieves its goal by developing industry skills, sharing ideas and information, building alliances, and promoting IT opportunities and events.
11/17/2008
Talentlogix Principal Consultant, Jules Fauteux Chairs Dalhousie Computer Science Panel on ICT Careers and CS Enrollment
As part of an ongoing commitment to the community, Talentlogix Principal Consultant Jules Fauteux regularly participates in public forums. He is chair of the Dalhousie Faculty of Computer Science Industry Advisory Board and in this capacity chaired a panel discussion about ICT career opportunities in the face of declining enrolment across North American Computer Science Programs. He was joined by John Cody from General Dynamics, Cherie LeBlanc from Research In Motion and Ross MacDougal from Concertia Technologies.
The event was chronicled by a cross section of print, radio and TV media. Below is an extract from METRO:
LINDSAY JONES, METRO HALIFAX November 07
A plunge in computer science enrolments is creating a looming labour shortage in the information technology industry, says Dalhousie University. Dal held a panel discussion yesterday with industry leaders to discuss the potential shortage that it says could impact government and health care, banking, telecommunications industries.
Jules Fauteux, chair of the Dalhousie faculty of Science Industry Advisory Board, said there is already a skills shortage for systems analysts, computer programmers and multi-media web designers. And a labour shortage in the recession-proof industry is looming. He said labour forecasts predict an additional 1,200 information and communications technology jobs per year in the region. “If you assume that half of the supply to meet that demand will come from university graduates, we’ll have a difficult time meeting that five years from now if we don’t increase enrolment,” Fauteux said.
Enrolments in computer science programs across the country dropped 45 per cent after the 2001 dot-com crash. Michael Shepherd, dean of the faculty of computer science, said one theory why enrolment is down is that people were unnecessarily spooked about going into the field after the crash.
11/14/2008
Jules Fauteux of Talentlogix Moderates Information Technology Alliance of Nova Scotia (ITANS) Annual Dinner
Phil Soreneson, President of Microsoft Canada was the keynote speaker at the ITANS Annual Dinner for 2008. Jules Fauteux of Talentlogix was Master of Ceremonies for the event which attracted attendance from about 300 ICT professionals and ITANS members. Mr Sorensen’s comments picked up on the theme of declining IT enrolment in the face of growing job opportunities.
ITANS is a non-profit organization committed to promoting the growth and development of the information technology Industry in Nova Scotia. ITANS achieves its goal by developing industry skills, sharing ideas and information, building alliances, and promoting IT opportunities and events.
11/13/2008
Jules Fauteux of Talentlogix Chairs Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia Titan Business Lunch
Over 500 business leaders and High School student Junior Achievers gathered at the Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax to compete in a business simulation game designed to help inspire and educate young entrepreneurs. Jules Fauteux of Talentlogix Inc. chaired the Annual luncheon fundraise and was Master of Ceremonies.
This year’s keynote speaker for the event was Chris Power, CEO of Capital Health. Students from across the province competed in the event for the privilege to advance to a national competition and ultimately to a global competition sponsored by Microsoft. Jules Fauteux has chaired the event for the past 4 years and is an active member of the Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia Board of Directors. The event is sponsored by Emera who have consistently given generous support to Junior Achievement.
