Career Fair

TD Bank Financial Group

The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches and serves more than 19 million customers in four key businesses operating in a number of locations in key financial centres around the globe: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, including TD Canada Trust and TD Insurance; Wealth Management, including TD Waterhouse and an investment in TD Ameritrade; U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, including TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank; and Wholesale Banking, including TD Securities. TD also ranks among the world's leading online financial services firms, with approximately 7 million online customers. TD had CDN$630 billion in assets on April 30, 2011. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades under the symbol "TD" on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges.

Scotiabank Financial Group

Amazing career stories begin at Scotiabank.

Become part of one of North America’s premier financial institutions and Canada’s most international bank.

Scotiabank is a Best Place to Work® in multiple geographies around the world.

By starting out in a Scotiabank branch, you will have the opportunity to help your customers realize their financial dreams and help your team-mates achieve their goals. Plus, you can gain the knowledge to be a recognized accredited professional.

We offer a comprehensive career development program that invests bankers with the skills and experience needed to assume increasingly senior roles.  By bringing you together with expert coaches, professional trainers and a national community of your peers, our training program provides a unique and practical opportunity to learn from some of our most talented banking professionals.

We strive to deliver a consistent and rewarding employment experience globally by developing policies and programs based on shared global principles.

A global community of Scotiabankers is thriving. It is here, where distinct perspectives and unique talents ignite personal career growth.

KPMG LLP

KPMG is one of Canada’s leading professional services firms, providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services to clients of all sizes in every major industry with 32 offices in 30 communities across the country. KPMG is committed to diversity and inclusion in all its forms and is proud to count LGBT people among its demographic makeup. KPMG has been named one of Canada’s Best Employers for Diversity specifically because of its work in LGBT inclusion. Along with its pride@kpmg network, KPMG is the only professional services firm in Canada to allow people to identify as LGBT as part its diversity profile tool. KPMG sponsors many LGBT organizations and is proud to be a supporter of the Out on Bay Street Conference.

RBC Financial Group

Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE) and its subsidiaries operate under the master brand name RBC. We are Canada's largest bank as measured by assets and market capitalization, and among the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management services, insurance, corporate and investment banking and transaction processing services on a global basis. We employ approximately 79,000 full- and part-time employees who serve close to 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 56 other countries.

BMO Financial Group

Founded in 1817 as Bank of Montreal®, today BMO Financial Group is a highly diversified financial services provider. We offer clients a broad range of personal, commercial, corporate and institutional financial services across Canada and in the United States.

Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 215,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2010. Our "high performance business" strategy builds on our expertise in consulting, technology and outsourcing to help clients perform at the highest levels so they can create sustainable value for their customers and shareholders. Using our industry knowledge, service-offering expertise and technology capabilities, we identify new business and technology trends and develop solutions to help clients around the world.

CIBC Financial Group

CIBC is a leading North American financial institution serving clients in Canada and around the world. Through our two distinct business lines, CIBC Retail Markets and CIBC Wholesale Banking, CIBC provides a full range of products and services to almost 11 million individual and small business clients.

CIBC works diligently to ensure our workforce reflects our diverse client base and communities we serve. CIBC is committed to providing an inclusive work environment for all its employees, where different ideas and perspectives are respected. CIBC views diversity is a fundamental part of their business, and a key contributor to their success. In 2011, CIBC was recipient of Canada’s Best Diversity Employer Award.

CIBC and their Pride Network enthusiastically stand alongside Pride at Work Canada as an organization that is passionate about making a real difference in the professional lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender/Transsexual (LGBT) employees in Canadian workplaces.

Ernst & Young LLP

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. We aim to have a positive impact on businesses and markets, as well as on society as a whole. We attract talented people from diverse backgrounds. Our emphasis on inclusiveness matters more than ever today. As business challenges become more complex, we need to call upon the widest spectrum of views and opinions to address them. Our open culture fosters continuous personal and professional development. Because when our people grow and succeed, your company benefits.

IBM

IBM Canada Ltd. is one of Canada’s leading providers of advanced information technology, products, services and business consulting expertise. We are dedicated to helping our clients innovate and succeed through the end-to-end transformation of their business models and the application of innovative technology and business solutions. IBM Canada has always stood for progress. Today, Canadians find themselves in a world that is not only smaller and flatter; it’s smarter. Leaders of businesses, governments and institutions have a unique opportunity to leverage this insight to positively transform the way the world works and IBM Canada remains committed to helping deliver on that vision.

Telus

TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.9B of annual revenue and 12.3M customer connections including 7M wireless subscribers, 3.7M wireline network access lines and 1.2M Internet subscribers and more than 350,000 TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video.

In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees will, by year-end 2011, have contributed $245M to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 4.1M hours of service to local communities since 2000. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.

At TELUS we believe the diversity of our team is a significant competitive advantage and we value the contribution and worth of each and every team member.  We work together, unified by our respect for each other, the TELUS values, and the pursuit of our business strategy. Diversity and inclusiveness thrives when we honour and leverage the traditions, beliefs, lifestyles, abilities and perspectives of all members of our team.

Deloitte

With over 150 years of experience, Deloitte is one of the leading accounting and consulting firms in Canada. Following on its tradition of diversity leadership, Deloitte is proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2011 and for its lead presentation of the 2011 Women of Influence Luncheon Series.

Unilever Canada Inc.

Unilever works to create a better future every day.  We help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that are good for them and good for others.

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong operations in more than 100 countries and sales in 180. Consumers buy 170bn Unilever packs around the world every year, and our products are used over two billion times a day.

In Canada, the portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Becel, Ben & Jerry’s, Breyers, Degree, Dove personal care products, Hellmann’s, Klondike, Knorr, Lipton, Popsicle, Q-Tips, Skippy, Slim-Fast, Suave, Sunsilk and Vaseline. All of the preceding brand names are registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies. Dedicated to serving consumers and the communities where we live, work and play, Unilever employs more than 1,600 people across Canada

Boston Consulting Group

BCG is a global management consulting firm and the world’s leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their businesses. Grow Further. At BCG, your potential is limited only by your talents and ambitions. Working with the world’s leading businesses on their toughest strategic challenges, you will gain the experience to excel in any field. Within BCG or beyond, our people make a difference because of the leaders they become while here. How far will you grow?

McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company is a global management-consulting firm that helps leading corporations and organizations make distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements in their performance. Over the last seven decades, the Firm's primary objective has remained constant: to serve senior leaders as their most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing their organizations. With over 8,000 consultants deployed from over 95 offices in 45 countries, McKinsey advises companies, governments and non-profit organizations on strategic, operational, organizational and technological issues. The Firm has extensive experience in all major industry sectors and primary functional areas.

PepsiCo

PepsiCo offers the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 19 different product lines that generate more than $1 billion in annual retail sales each. Our main businesses -- Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola -- also make hundreds of other enjoyable and wholesome foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo's people are united by our unique commitment to sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and our planet, which we believe also means a more successful future for PepsiCo. We call this commitment Performance with Purpose: PepsiCo's promise to provide a wide range of foods and beverages for local tastes; to find innovative ways to minimize our impact on the environment, including by conserving energy and water usage, and reducing packaging volume; to provide a great workplace for our associates; and to respect, support, and invest in the local communities where we operate.

Procter & Gamble

At P&G, diversity is seen as a competitive advantage. P&G Canada actively promotes LGBT diversity with recruitment efforts, a LGBT Employee Network, contributions to the broader community including donations, sponsorships, and volunteer programs. Four billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. P&G is one of Canada’s largest consumer packaged goods company with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Tide®, Pantene®, Bounty®, Dawn®, Pringles®, Downy®, Crest®, Oral-B®, Olay®, Gillette® and Braun®. Our corporate tradition is rooted in the principles of personal integrity, respect for the individual and doing what’s right for the long-term.

Matrix Search Group

Matrix Search is a dynamic, full service, talent acquisition firm with over ten years of experience solving the staffing needs of organizations involved in the real estate, construction, property management and financial services industries. We are an organization of, for and about people. We value relationships, integrity, trust and equality. Our goal is to use honesty, trust, and respect to develop long-term relationships with our clients and candidates. With tenacity, Matrix Search has successfully harnessed the powerful, synergetic energy that workplace diversity creates in the field of talent acquisition and is proud to represent this diversity both within our organization and when advocating for our clients and candidates We are driven to assist both recent graduates and established professionals seeking individualized career advancement support. We are dedicated to nurturing your potential and will assist you in all aspects of achieving your career goals. Your success is our success.

Steam Whistle

Steam Whistle, an independent brewery housed in Toronto’s historic railway Roundhouse, has a singular focus of making just one beer of exceptional quality that Canadians can be proud of. Their refreshing Pilsner is brewed with traditional craftsmanship and only four, natural ingredients. Steam Whistle Pilsner is packaged in signature green glass bottles, cans & kegs, and is shipped fresh across Ontario, Alberta and more recently BC. Highly awarded for its premium beer, its business success, community support and environmental practices, Steam Whistle Pilsner is now one of the top selling premium beer brands in Canada.

Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC) is one of Canada’s leading business and litigation law firms with more than 500 lawyers in six full-service offices located in the country’s key business centres. We focus on providing outstanding service and value to our clients, and we strive to excel as a workplace of choice for our people. Regardless of where you choose to do business in Canada, our strong team of professionals possess knowledge and expertise on regional, national and cross-border matters. FMC’s well-earned reputation for consistently delivering the highest quality legal services and counsel to our clients is complemented by an ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion to broaden our insight and perspective on our clients’ needs.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) is one of Canada's leading business law firms. With more than 550 lawyers in offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Chicago, London, Bahrain, Beijing and associated offices in Al-Khobar and Shanghai, our integrated office network gives clients worldwide access to the full spectrum of capabilities found throughout the Firm. Whether an issue is local or multi-jurisdictional, practice-area specific or cross-disciplinary, Blakes handles transactions of all sizes and levels of complexity. It is our culture and philosophy to work closely with clients to understand all of their legal needs and keep them apprised of legal developments that may affect them. As a testament to our level of client service, Blakes was named for the third year in a row "Canada's Law Firm of the Year" by Who's Who Legal (2011) and "Law Firm of the Year: Canada" in the PLC Which Lawyer? Awards (2010).

McCarthy Tetrault

McCarthy Tétrault provides a broad range of legal services, advising on large and complex assignments for Canadian and international interests. Built on a unique model of collaboration, the firm provides unequalled legal talent, industry knowledge and practice experience, and delivers customized legal services to help clients achieve the results that are important to them.

With offices in Canada’s major commercial centres and in London, UK, McCarthy Tétrault delivers integrated services in business law, litigation, tax, real estate, and labour and employment law.

The firm’s lawyers work seamlessly across practice groups and regions, representing Canadian and international clients, including major public institutions, financial services organizations, mining companies, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and other corporations.

For more than 150 years, McCarthy Tétrault has worked with all levels of government to develop the laws and regulations that have shaped – and continue to shape – the Canadian economy.

McCarthy Tétrault’s London office specializes in assisting clients with their transatlantic transactions, and is staffed with both English and Canadian-qualified lawyers. A charter member of the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, it is an integral part in the provision of the firm’s services in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is a leading business law firm practising nationally and internationally from its offices across Canada and in New York. Our clients include industry and business leaders in all segments of the market and at various stages in the growth of their businesses. We have built our reputation on our commitment to our clients’ success and the experience, expertise and collaborative approach for which we are recognized. We believe that our success is a reflection of our clients’ success.

Osler is recognized for the breadth and depth of its practice in business law and is consistently ranked as one of Canada’s top firms. We have leading lawyers in the specialized areas that allow our clients to succeed in their business objectives and deep industry expertise in the various sectors of the North American economy. We strive to provide innovative, solution-oriented advice in a practical and cost effective manner.

With almost 500 lawyers working together from offices across Canada in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal and Ottawa and our office in New York, we undertake mandates that cross Canada’s internal borders as well as mandates that cross international borders.

Baker & McKenzie LLP

Baker & McKenzie has been global from our inception. It is part of our DNA. We offer clients and talent both the uncompromising commitment to excellence expected of a top firm and a distinctive way of thinking, working and behaving — as a passionately global and genuinely collaborative firm. We seamlessly combine an instinctively global perspective with the nuanced local insights of 3,750 locally qualified lawyers in 69 offices around the world. We call this fluency, and our clients tell us that it is what distinguishes us from other law firms.

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP is a Toronto-based full-service business law firm with more than 200 lawyers serving the transaction, advocacy and advisory needs of Canada’s most dynamic business sectors. Cassels Brock is a non-hierarchical, decent place to work. Our students like it here. They get great training. They get to work with some of the best legal minds in the country on files that matter. Our lawyers are smart and dynamic. They have personalities, pets, kids and give back to the community with both money and time.

Fasken Martineau

Fasken Martineau is a leading international business law and litigation firm with more than 675 lawyers. The firm has offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Québec City, London, Paris and Johannesburg.

Our practice spans every sector of business, industry and government. We provide strategic advice to a broad range of clients including close to half of the Fortune 100 companies.  We work with corporate clients (large, medium and small companies), government agencies, regulatory authorities, non-profit bodies and individual clients. We offer expertise in both common law and civil law in English and French. Many of our lawyers and staff are also fluent in other languages spoken worldwide, including Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), German, Japanese and Spanish.

Fasken Martineau is committed to a diverse and welcoming workplace. We are proud of each and every person that makes up our strong and dynamic workforce while offering innovative and strategic approaches to your legal needs. As a leader in the global business community, Fasken Martineau demonstrates its commitment to diversity not only in the policies and practices that we follow within our firm but also in our actions within the diverse communities in which we operate.

Heenan Blaikie

Since its inception in 1973, Heenan Blaikie has become one of the leading law firms in the country. With our outstanding track record in business law, labour and employment, litigation, taxation, entertainment law and intellectual property, we deliver comprehensive legal advice and innovative business solutions to clients across Canada and abroad.

We are also known on Bay Street as a "people place". We are a leading national firm of over 550 lawyers and professionals with a small firm, friendly atmosphere. This is a non-hierarchical place where people genuinely like each other and doors are always open.  We are also proud to say that we are home to a diverse, multilingual and multicultural group of lawyers. Across Canada our lawyers speak more than 26 languages. Our commitment to diversity and social justice is profoundly rooted in our firm's spirit which is part of what continues to fuel our passion for the law and our firm's growth across the country.

Bennett Jones LLP

Bennett Jones is an internationally recognized Canadian law firm founded and focused on principles of professional excellence, integrity, respect and independent thought. Our firm’s leadership position is reflected in the law we practice, the groundbreaking work we do, the client relationships we have, and the quality of our people.

Bennett Jones is home to more than 360 lawyers and business advisors and 495 staff in six offices – Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and a representative office in Beijing. Our professional practice encompasses virtually every sector of business, industry and government.

Our ranks are filled with leaders in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, energy, corporate finance and banking, bankruptcy and restructuring, commercial litigation, climate change, technology and intellectual property, tax, competition and trade law, and public policy.  Among our group we count a former provincial premier, a former Governor of the Bank of Canada, a former deputy prime minister of Canada, a former Supreme Court of Canada judge, a former ambassador to the World Trade Organization, two former Canadian ambassadors to the United States of America, and a former Commissioner of Competition.

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

BLG is an integrated, full service, national firm with more than 700 lawyers, intellectual property agents and professionals in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Waterloo Region, Ottawa and Montreal.  We offer a collegial and dynamic work environment in which students, associates and partners are exposed to a phenomenal breadth and depth of legal work and clients.

Each of our offices is home to some of the best lawyers in Canada from whom students and associates can learn.  Students and lawyers also have the opportunity to work closely with lawyers and professionals in other BLG offices who are also at the forefront of their fields, thereby exposing them to an even broader professional experience.  This, combined with the significant resources directed to the Mentoring Program and the Professional Development Program, makes BLG among the top firms in Canada to develop your career.

To support our commitment to professional excellence we created the Professional Excellence Program, a unique, nationally coordinated training program encompassing substantive knowledge training, skills training, practice and client relationship management and knowledge management.  Our training begins with our students and continues through to a series of intensive programs designed to ensure our lawyers develop the necessary skills to serve our clients professionally on every assignment and to facilitate the path to partnership.

For more information on BLG and our training programs,  please visit our website.

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg

Davies is an integrated law firm of more than 240 lawyers with offices in Toronto, Montreal and New York. We are focused on business law and are consistently at the heart of the largest and most complex commercial and financial matters, domestically and abroad. Excellence is the foundation of Davies' culture. The creativity and different perspectives that are brought to our practice by lawyers from diverse backgrounds and communities have helped to define who we are as a firm today, and we believe that they will continue to be key factors that enable us to endure as market leaders in our chosen areas of practice. With the highest ratio of partners to associates of any major Canadian law firm, we place great emphasis on team work, cooperation and the firm as a whole.

Norton Rose Group

Norton Rose Group is a leading international legal practice with more than 2,600 lawyers in 39 offices worldwide.  We offer a full business law service to many of the world’s pre-eminent financial institutions and corporations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada, Africa and the Middle East.  We are strong in financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and pharmaceuticals and life sciences. Knowing how our clients’ businesses work and understanding what drives their industries is fundamental to us. Our lawyers share industry knowledge and sector expertise across borders, enabling us to support our clients anywhere in the world.

Torys LLP

Torys LLP is an international business law firm with offices in Toronto, New York and Calgary. Torys is known for its seamless cross-border services in a range of areas, including mergers and acquisitions; corporate and capital markets; litigation and dispute resolution; restructuring and insolvency; taxation; competition and antitrust; environmental, health and safety; debt finance and lending; project development and finance; managed assets; private equity and venture capital; financial institutions; pension and employment; intellectual property; technology, media and telecom; life sciences; real estate; infrastructure and energy; climate change and emissions trading; and personal client services.

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

Pride at Work Canada

Founded in 2008, Pride at Work Canada is the leading non-profit organization supporting the LGBT community in Canadian workplaces. Through dialogue, education and leadership, we empower individuals and organizations to foster a workplace culture that recognizes LGBT employees as an important part of a diverse workforce.

Working with dozens of leading national organizations that employ over 650 000 Canadians, Pride at Work Canada helps its Corporate Partners to be recognized as employers of choice for the LGBT community in Canada. As part of their membership, partner organizations share good practice and attend a variety of seminars and networking events across the country. We currently hold events in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal.

Ontario Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

The Ontario Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (OGLCC) is a federally chartered, non-profit organization with the goal to promote and support the development of Ontario businesses and professionals within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Allied communities through the sharing of knowledge and resources. We strive to be the leading catalyst for fostering a cooperative and successful community of LGBT Ontarians and our allies. For more information about the OGLCC, please visit www.oglcc.com.

Legal Aid Ontario

Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) provides low-income Ontario residents with high quality legal aid services in a cost-effective and efficient manner. LAO is the second-largest justice agency in Ontario and one of the largest providers of legal services in North America.

Established by the Legal Aid Services Act, 1998 Legal Aid Ontario is an independent but publically funded and publically accountable non-profit corporation, responsible for administering the province’s legal aid program.

The Lawyer Workforce Strategy

The Lawyer Workforce Strategy (LWS) launched in April 2009, is a talent management initiative designed to provide rewarding and challenging careers for lawyers at LAO. LWS improves client service by creating a dynamic, responsive, and flexible legal team.

The LWS offers lawyers more than just a job. Staff lawyers at LAO embark on a career path promoting exposure to a variety of substantive areas of law. Through a system of rotating placements, staff lawyers are continually challenged and rewarded for growth and performance.