Alberta Blue Cross | Young People

Alberta Blue Cross employees volunteering

Chosen as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People for 2011:

By Kristina Leung and Richard Yerema, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editor ( Jun 6, 2011)

Health benefits plan	✓
Maternity top-up	✓
Vacation allowance after first year	3 weeks
Flexible work hours	✓
Tuition subsidies	✓
Formal orientation program (TCD)	✓
Mentoring program	✓
Formal leadership training (TCD)	✓
Career planning services	✓
Subsidies for professional accreditations	✓
Fitness facility onsite	✓
Bicycle lock-up	✓
Transit subsidy	✓
Employee sports teams	✓
Organized social events	✓
Hires summer students	✓
Hires co-op students	✓
On-campus recruitment program	✓

Young People Highlights

Alberta Blue Cross offers employees a flexible health benefits plan, which allows them to customize coverage to suit their personal needs. The company also helps employees balance their work and personal lives with a variety of alternative work arrangements, including flexible hours and telecommuting, shortened and compressed work week options, and a formal earned-days-off program.

Alberta Blue Cross offers in-house and online training programs as well as a formal mentoring program. In addition, the company manages "Career Compass", a career planning website with information on how to research and plan for future careers, in order to better prepare employees for conversations with human resources about career directions and opportunities within the organization.

Background Information

Major Canadian hiring locations: Calgary AB, Edmonton AB. Full-time employees in Canada: 892. Full-time worldwide: 950. Part-time employees in Canada: 46. On-campus recruitment at: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, University of Alberta, University of Calgary.

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