Fine-Tuning your Onboarding Process and Optimizing for Employee Success
Roughly 90% of Ontario’s F&B processors are small businesses. And often, the task of preparing employees for success at your business is yet another task that falls on the shoulders of just one or two people.

In this session, we cover how to establish an effective onboarding process that leverages the whole team. Participants will also learn the steps to this vital process that extends well beyond a new hire’s first day and the transformative benefits it can have on your organization’s culture, staffing, and productivity.

When

Date: August 30, 2022

Time: 2 p.m.

Duration: 1 hour

Cost: Free

A recording of this session will be posted on Food and Beverage Ontario’s YouTube channel and shared directly with FBO members. 

Who should attend

Building a Value Proposition that Grows Your Workforce is specially tailored to support Ontario’s food and beverage processing employers and HR staff at small to medium sized businesses.

This session will be particularly valuable to

• Ontario employers in the food and beverage processing industry
• Human resource professionals
• Managers and team leaders in the food and beverage processing industry

…and professionals involved in an organization’s talent attraction, recruitment, and retention strategies.

Session Presenters

Angeli Mehrotra, BA, SSW, CYW

EDI Employment Engagement Specialist, Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Co-operative Education | Experiential Learning Hub

University of Guelph

Angeli is an enthusiastic and professional individual with over 12 years of experience working in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Angeli has been working in employment since graduating college, which has given her the ability to help and connect with community partners, students, and employers in ensuring they achieve their goals and are connected with the right services.

Angeli’s greatest passion is helping individuals finding their passion and working with it. Her 10+ years of experience and the people she has worked with have taught her that no matter how many obstacles people can face, if they have passion and enthusiasm they can get far.

She has a BA in Psychology and Criminology and a diploma in Social Service Work and Child and Youth Work.

Jason Wilson

Advancement Coach

Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium

Jason has over 20 years of experience in the manufacturing sector in a variety of roles such as team leader, supervisor & plant manager. He’s also spent seven years as a recruitment consultant for the industry. Most recently, Jason was a program coordinator with Four County Labour Market Planning Board’s Connect2SKILLS Project to provide training, coaching, mentoring, and job placement support to participants with barriers to employment.

Nicole Gallace

Talent Solutions Manager

FoodGrads.com

Nicole Gallace is a Talent Solutions Manager focused on the food and beverage processing industry. After 10 years of third party recruiting in the sector, she noticed a gap in support for students and graduates looking to start their career. She started FoodGrads in 2016 and is key partner of Food and Beverage Ontario’s ‘Taste Your Future’ and ‘CareersNOW!’ programs.

Nicole sold FoodGrads in 2021 to the talent solutions group who own CareersInFood.com, AgCareers.com, and De Lacy North America. She continues to grow FoodGrads—supporting students and graduates, while building relationships with colleges and universities. She has also gone back to her roots partnering with organizations as a third party recruiter, to support their hiring needs.

What you’ll get

Attendees will hear from employment, recruitment, and workplace inclusion experts on how to evaluate their organization’s onboarding processes. This insight will equip management, human resources, and food processing professionals with the steps needed to refine their approach to attracting and welcoming new hires, and set employees up for long-term success.

About the Workplace and Cultural Development Series

Ontario’s food and beverage processing industry is facing an intensifying labour crisis, and modernized employer recruitment and retention strategies are key to attracting and retaining an essential workforce.

Our four-part webinar series will engage with industry leaders in HR and business development strategy to provide expert guidance on how to create an attractive workplace culture that grows authentic employer-employee relationships, attracts job seekers, and promotes innovation.

FBO’s Workplace and Cultural Development webinar series is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.