Vancouver 2010 announced Tuesday it has launched a partnership with the Internet job recruitment site workopolis.com to become the exclusive official supplier of online recruitment for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Over the next three years all posting for 1,200 full-time, 3,500 temporary and 25,000 volunteers positions will appear on the site.
Workopolis is a partnership of three Canadian media companies – The Globe and Mail division of Bell Globemedia, Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., and Gesca Ltd., the newspaper subsidiary of Power Corp. of Canada.
Value of the sponsorship is reportedly between $3 million and $15 million with half in-kind and half in cash.
The Vancouver 2010 Games logo will appear on the Workopolis site and a prospective applicant can click there to be fast-tracked to pages of Vancouver 2010 job openings and related articles, reports the Globe and Mail.
Vancouver 2010 CEO John Furlong said, “we’re searching for Canada’s best ‘corporate athletes’ who are looking for an experience of a lifetime. The 2010 Winter Games are Canada’s Games and Workopolis’ unparalleled national reach will help us recruit professionals who, like our Canadian athletes, are talented and passionate and will help us prepare to host the world in 2010”. He added, “if you want to find out about any Olympic opportunity it will be posted there”.
Paid positions at VANOC will range from entry-level to senior management and will be filled across eight divisions: CEO’s office, Sport, Paralympic Games, Venue Management and Technology & Systems, Games Services Operations and Ceremonies, Venue Development, Revenue, Marketing and Communications, Human Resources and Sustainability, Finance and Legal.
Furlong said, “there will be many exciting opportunities to be part of the Vancouver 2010 team. Be it a transport systems manager, an accountant, a medal ceremonies assistant, a food services manager or a venue construction inspector, partnering with Workopolis will ensure we have access to the very best candidates from across the country”.
Vancouver 2010 will also need 25,000 volunteers to cover Games.
