Julie Labrie
President, BlueSky Personnel Solutions
Toronto, Canada
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Julie Labrie is the president and owner of one of Canada’s top bilingual English/French recruitment firms, BlueSky Personnel Solutions. For more than 25 years, she has helped companies build dream teams and helped Canadians land their dream jobs. Julie, a multi award winner, was named as one of the Top 100 Staffing Leaders to Watch globally. She is an international speaker and the author of the best-selling book ”How to Find the Best Talent to Grow Your Business”. She has also been featured on CBC, Radio-Canada, CTV, Global TV, Newstalk 1010 Radio, MoneySense magazine; and much more. She is the recruitment expert for Canada’s leading national newspaper, The Globe and Mail.
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Hiring Trends- How to Win at Today’s Recruitment Matchmaking Game
For over 20 years, Julie Labrie, one of Canada’s top recruitment leaders has worked with HR leaders and jobseekers – connecting people to their dream jobs and building dream teams for organizations. In this session, Julie breaks down in tangible steps, what each side will be looking for this year, and how to help both sides find their perfect match!
Why SPECIALTY is Becoming Recruitment’s Next “It” Word
Why SPECIALTY will become recruitment’s next “it” word: Journey into this data-driven case study about niching – exponentially grow your staffing business by bravely narrowing your focus. When everyone was zigging away from bilingual recruitment, see why Julie chose to zag, owning this specialty in Canada, to garner triple-digit growth.
How to Help People Land Dream Jobs and Help Companies Build Dream Teams
If recruitment is part of your work in any way – be it in supporting jobseekers, or helping your organization hire new talent, then you don’t want to miss this. The recruitment game is changing dramatically year-over-year, and it’s critical today to understand the evolving nuances and needs of both jobseekers and hiring managers/employers. Consider for example: How is AI impacting hiring processes today? Should candidates ask about salaries in their preliminary interview? What is the best way to make stand-out connections on LinkedIn? What are the new red flags employers are watching for among job candidates? In this series, learn from Julie Labrie, one of Canada’s top recruitment thought leaders, who is a regular media commentator and was named one of the world’s Top 100 Staffing Leaders to Watch by the World Staffing Awards in recent years. Julie will clear away the clutter and give you quick, easy, actionable steps that you can use immediately, to help people land their dream jobs and help companies build dream teams.
The Mirror Effect: Why Your Management DNA is the Secret to Scaling Your Business
Most business owners hire for the resume but fire for the personality. We’ve all been there: you find a candidate who is "paper-perfect"—they have the degrees, the experience, and the technical skills—yet six months later, the relationship is a source of constant friction.
In this session, we flip the traditional hiring script. Instead of starting with the candidate, we start with you.
Drawing on years of recruitment data and leadership "wake-up calls," this session introduces the Management DNA Framework. Participants will learn why high-performing teams aren't built on skill sets alone, but on "Management Chemistry." We will explore how your specific communication style, decision-making speed, and standards of excellence dictate who will thrive under your leadership—and who will inevitably walk out the door.
Attendees will leave with a practical, two-filter system to ensure their next hire isn't just a "good employee," but the right employee for their specific leadership DNA.
Negotiating Job Offers: Master These New Strategies to Win Over In-Demand Candidates
Salaries across the board have been skyrocketing over the past few years, with no signs of easing, yet HR leaders with finite budgets must make it all work, courting in-demand candidates amid stiff competition. In an HR world full of multiple competing job offers for star candidates, counter-offers, ghostings, and regrets for the ones that got away, is there a proven formula for success? Yes!
In this session, Julie Labrie (one of Canada’s top recruiters, named last year by World Staffing Awards as one of the Top 100 Staffing Leaders to Watch), will pull back the recruitment sector curtain, to reveal several new and emerging strategies that every HR leader should add to their toolbox for job offer negotiations. Journey with Julie into the new mindset among talented and highly sought-after Canadian jobseekers. Beyond salary expectations, learn what they value, what is important to them, and what they are really looking for (that’s not hard for you to give), even when they’re not vocalizing it. In this process, discover the hidden gem-like insights and tangible strategies that you can start implementing TODAY, for successful win-win negotiations. Land those star candidates that everyone else wants and build your dream team.
Break Through “Candidate Clutter” to Find Your Perfect Fit
HR and hiring managers today are inundated with resumes and interview pitches from candidates, and sometimes it can feel like you’ll need psychic qualities to break through all of the grandstanding, over-rehearsing, or even dare we say, faking. But when you find your needle in a haystack, the impact of your hire on the business, and those rising company stars – can also make you feel like a rock star!
In this session, Julie Labrie, a 25+years recruitment veteran specializing in Bilingual/French recruitment – who was named by the World Staffing Awards as one of the world’s top 100 staffing leaders to watch in 2022 & 2025 – will reveal, her top tips to find your perfect candidate fit.
What interview questions break through the clutter to reveal deep intel on candidates? What are the most common mistakes made in the hiring process that result in remorse for the ones that got away. When are you staring at 2,000 candidate profiles, what is the best way to find your needle in that haystack? Julie will cover all this and more in this not-to-be-missed session!
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