If you’re a full-stack developer who wants to build genuinely helpful products, your next career move should be to Willful. Willful’s core product — affordable digital wills and estate documents for Canadians — brings peace of mind to thousands of families nationwide as they begin the tough conversations around end-of-life…

Growing pains hit different in a global pandemic and tight talent market. Hiring your dream team has never been harder. Craft PR was ready to scale in early 2021, Melissa Retty, a senior vice president at the firm and the company’s HR lead, knew she would need help. …

Byline: Written by Vinciane de Pape, DEI Advisor at Bloom Dear Bloom, I’m an HR manager at a small startup. I’m friends with a lot of my fellow employees and we all follow each other on Instagram. One day I noticed a tagline on an employee’s image: “Link in bio for more”. I clicked out of curiosity. Turns out, it was to their OnlyFans, which advertised a lot of “sexy” pictures and videos behind the paywall.

Byline: Written by Jessica Regan, DEI Advisor and Vinciane de Pape, DEI Advisor Thursday, September 30, 2021 marks the first Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada — but how did we get here? For many Canadians, the conversation about reconciliation started on May 27th when the remains of over…

Too many influencers think of themselves as fun individuals just doing their ~*thing and ignore the fact that they are entrepreneurs. And when that happens, the scandals inevitably emerge. …

It’s easy for people living in rural areas to claim that urban issues don’t affect them. But when multiple harrowing events happened throughout 2020 including the murder of George Floyd, the board of the Beef Farmers of Ontario (BFO) realized that this wasn’t an urban vs rural problem. Instead, the…

Trigger warning: This article includes graphic details of sexual assault She was finally ready to quit. Her desk was empty, and her confidence was high as she walked into HR to let them know she would no longer be working at the firm. After years of verbal abuse, assault, and…

Pranavi Balaji* was excited for her latest opportunity — building a startup from the ground up — but ended up being treated more like a cog in a wheel than a whole person building a company. After years of contributing to her employer’s success and building the company as if…

Bloom just hired a Head of Experience! We welcomed Jules Whish to the team in June 2021. But you might be wondering why a workplace design consultancy like Bloom would hire for this role, and what exactly this kind of role would do. With that in mind, I want to…