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UBC / University of British Columbia
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UBC President with employees during a meeting
Chosen as one of British Columbia's Top Employers for 2013:
By Richard Yerema and Kristina Leung, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors
Highlights. Mediacorp editors have confirmed that this employer:
- employees may take advantage of a variety of onsite amenities including an employee lounge, cafeteria with healthy and special diet menus, quiet room for meditation and religious observance and subsidized membership to a state-of-the-art fitness facility
- invests in continued skills development with a range of in-house and online training programs, formal mentoring, subsidies for professional accreditation and courses taken at outside institutions
- manages a generous academic scholarship program for children of employees who pursue post-secondary education (to $10,000 per child)
- supports a variety of local and international charitable initiatives each year and encourages employee volunteerism with paid time off to volunteer with their favorite community organization
- helps older employees prepare for life after work with retirement planning assistance, phased-in work options and generous contributions to a defined benefit or contribution pension plan (depending on employee group)
Background Information
Industry:
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools.
Major Canadian hiring locations:
Vancouver BC, Kelowna BC.
Established:
1908.
Full-time employees in Canada:
10,896.
Full-time at this location:
10,123.
Part-time employees in Canada:
12,690.
Longest serving employee:
44 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:
81,294.
Average age of all employees:
36.
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