Management based on staff involvement.

All of our staff is qualified and extremely dedicated. In high season, over 2,800 employees work in all the regions of Québec. Our human resources department deals with all matters concerning personnel, such as recruiting, industrial relations, training, bargaining and application of collective agreements, payroll management, work organization, classification, as well as policies and procedures relevant to the staff. Our employees are not governed by the Québec Public Service Act. We favour a participatory management style, based on employee involvement and have established many participatory and consulting mechanisms that enhance employee commitment and accountability. The corporation always encourages employee decision-making and initiative.

To facilitate employee participation and accountability, the levels of administrative and hierarchical structures are reduced to a minimum. There are never more than three or four levels between the employees and the president-director general of the Society. This applies to all of our establishments, including the Head Office, where the number of decision-making levels is limited to one or two.
One of the major services our human resources department offers is training, providing continuing education programs based on Sépaq values and the acquisition of new skills for increased effectiveness. The goal of these programs is to increase employee qualifications so our staff can offer customers the very highest quality of service.

For over a year now, Sépaq has been running a new workforce planning program, which has started to recruit a significant number of young professionals and technicians for strategic positions, such as executives, professionals and managers in each one of Sépaq's activity sectors. We are proud to introduce you to some of them. Our Recruiting Procedure: When a need for new personnel is identified in the organization, our procedures are as follows:

• Once the obligations stipulated in our labour agreements have been met, we review the employment applications filed in our applicant bank and invite candidates with the required qualifications to selection interviews.
  
  
• As needed, job offers are published in regional and national newspapers. Sépaq always favours local and regional hiring.

1.   By Internet, using the electronic form: you will receive an acknowledgement of receipt by e-mail and a personal identification number, so there is no need to call to check if your CV is registered.

2.    By mail or by fax to a specific branch or to the Sépaq Head Office. In both cases, your CV will be registered in our central bank.

• Applications are not processed according to date of registration, but according to experience, qualifications and skills of the candidates in relation to the job description.
  
  
• Sépaq will only keep the applications of candidates who have recognized qualifications in the activity sector for which they are offering their services.