The Bagg Group Blog

We are honoured to be the recipient of the 2010 ACSESS Community Service Award.

ACSESS, The Association of Canadian Search, Employment & Staffing Services is the national voice of the employment and staffing service industry. Each year ACSESS acknowledges members for their outstanding contributions and dedication to the association, the community and to the staffing industry across Canada.

The awards ceremony took place at the association’s annual conference in Mississauga on May 13th, recognizing notable members for their excellence in several areas including health and safety, commitment, leadership, volunteerism and community service.

The Bagg Group has a long history of community service, and we are honoured to be recognized for our dedication to empowering others. Read more.

There is more to a job than a paycheque.  At the Bagg Group, we know that money matters, but it isn’t the only thing that does.

When our recruiters talk to people who are seeking full-time opportunities, contract opportunities, or temporary-placement, we ask about more than salary.

As well as talking about your skills and experience, we ask about your interests. What do you care about?  What are your ambitions, what do you hope to achieve?  What does a great day at  work look like for you?  These are terrific questions to think about before you go to any interview.

Our recruiters have asked themselves the same questions, and our answers have resulted in The Bagg Group winning the Award for Commitment to Community Service and Education from our industry, the Association of Canadian Search, Employment and Staffing Services (ACSESS).  For the second time.

As a staffing agency, we found that we care most about empowering people.  We believe we succeed when we help our candidates, clients and community meet their goals. The Bagg Group was founded on that belief over 40 years ago, and it continues to drive us today.

That’s why we sponsor a Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA) scholarship that enables a person to complete studies in human resources.

It’s also the reason why we launch and support so many charitable initiatives.  This spring,  recruiters got together to help send our company president, Geoff Bagg, and his son to Honduras to do volunteer work and donate a house to one of the poorest families in a region ravished by poverty and neglect.

Every December, all us at The Bagg Group shop together for gifts for the Scott Mission Adopt-a-Family program.  And we have a great time.

As a group, and individually, we are energized by giving back.  Thinking of how we can best help others makes us more creative in all that we do.  We are inspired to think about more ways we can support our candidates and clients.

So consider what it is that inspires you to be the best you can be?   Acting on your answer will help you succeed in interviews, in your job, and in everything else you do.  We have the proof in the successes of the hundreds we have placed in the best companies in the GTA – and in the awards that hang on our walls.

At The Bagg Group, we practice retail therapy, on company time. And we urge our clients to consider undertaking a similar practice. Our recruiters shop for toys, books, and clothes, and split the bill with me.  When our budget is spent, we hand over our purchases to The Scott Mission, and return to the office, energized by the experience.

For us, philanthropy is part of a day’s work.  We are honoured to be recognized for our dedication to empowering others by the Association of Canadian Search, Employment and Staffing Services (ACSESS) which awarded us the 2010 Community Service Award. We first received the award in 2004, and it feels great every time.

The Award champions commitment to charitable, educational and community initiatives. We couldn’t agree more on the importance of this. In turn, we want to champion Hayley Rosenbaum, recipient of the HRPA Scholarship which The Bagg Group sponsors annually to enable a student to complete studies in human resources.

At The Bagg Group, giving back isn’t just corporate goodwill, it’s part of our corporate DNA.  This agency was founded on the belief that you succeed when you help others succeed.  And it is because we live this principle every day that we continue to sustain strong, positive relationship with our clients. 

We have successfully placed people in full-time positions, contract positions and temporary opportunities for decades.  Over the years, we have interviewed thousands of job-seekers. The result is that  we know what people need to feel engaged and productive on the job. And it’s not just money.

The most loyal employees are those who work for organizations which support their efforts to make a difference to their company, and to their community.

We can verify this first-hand.  Our staffing solution experts continuously launch and support various charitable initiatives, and their enthusiasm, optimism and actions invigorate their colleagues, clients and candidates.  Most recently, our recruiters got together to help send myself and my teen son to Honduras to do volunteer work and donate a house to one of the poorest families in a region ravished by poverty and neglect.  

As for the company’s annual shopping spree for the Adopt-A-Family program organized by the Toronto-based Scott Mission every year at Christmas, it is proof of how community service is a tremendous workplace practice.   We have a great time, and are motivated to think of different and more ways we can help others.  This fuels our creativity as a group, and ends up boosting our own productivity.

Geoff Bagg