City plans job vacancy ad blitz

After seeing nearly one-third of its employees leave over the last year, the city of Iqaluit plans to increase spending on advertising and recruitment.

“It was a year of transition. It was a year of change,” said finance director John Hussey, during budget discussions this week.

In 2005 the city saw a 30 per cent turnover in city staff. That’s 33 employees, including four department heads, who left in one year. The bylaw department, finance department and city’s translators are among those who took big hits.

“It was quite drastic,” said the city’s chief administrative officer, Ian Fremantle. “It was a bad year, turnover-wise… but we survived it.”

The draft budget includes $50,000 on advertising for the human resource department, to advertise city job vacancies across the country.
The human resources draft budget also includes $50,000 on recruitment, and $100,000 on removal and termination of employees.