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ThirdQuarter Presents Inaugural Employer Recognition Certificate
"I hope other businesses take advantage of this because for things to work, everybody needs to buy into it sooner rather than later."
Susie Eyolfson
Owner of Arborg Nic Nacs & Flowers
Arborg, Manitoba
Susie Eyolfson didn't need an award to make her appreciate the ThirdQuarter project.
The owner of Arborg Nic Nacs & Flowers in Manitoba was presented May 18 with the first ThirdQuarter Employer Recognition Certificate, which acknowledges businesses and organizations for their support and commitment to the project.
"I think it's a great program," Eyolfson said. "It came through for myself as a business, that a person fit my needs so quickly and she's worked out great."
Eyolfson registered her business with ThirdQuarter last summer and quickly made a connection with Lillian Skulason, a former real estate broker and office manager who became the national project's first hire in late August.
"It's just a great asset for me to have someone who comes in with such responsibility right off the top and I didn't have to teach her that," Eyolfson said.
"I hope other businesses take advantage of this because for things to work, everybody needs to buy into it sooner rather than later."
ThirdQuarter Manitoba provincial co-ordinator Jack Wilson said the employer certificates are an important way to recognize those businesses that demonstrate their commitment to hiring older workers.
"It's only fitting that Arborg Nic Nacs and Flowers receive our first certificate because it was the first business in Canada to hire an older worker via the ThirdQuarter project," Wilson said.
The two-year project is running in 12 communities in B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces. A 13th pilot will soon be launched in Portage la Prairie, MB.
The program matches firms and organizations with people aged 50-plus who want to explore new jobs, work flexible hours or volunteer during the third quarter of their lives.
As of mid-May, the program had registered approximately 900 businesses, 2,200 workers and posted 350 jobs.
"I hope people take this as being a really good way of finding employees who maybe just fill little voids they have in their businesses," Eyolfson said.
"In the type of business I have, you don't have a high, intense need for staff every day so you're not always able to give people full-time employment that you would love to, but it's just not feasible.
"So when you have someone who all they want is part-time and fill-in work, it's great. It's sort of a win-win for everybody involved."
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