It Is With Great Pleasure That We Welcome You to the EVOLVE 2022 Symposium!
Employer branding is much more than just a solution to attract or woo candidates. A strong and well-defined employer brand not only draws in new talent but also improves the well-being of existing employees and enhances customer satisfaction.
We chose this theme for our event in an effort to highlight its importance, its many benefits, and share with you the reasons why your organization can benefit from it! We are thrilled to have you with us today, and happy EVOLVE!
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About us
At EPSI, we are focused on one thing: delivering comprehensive expertise to help you get the most from your most important resource: the people.We customize a full range of human resources talent assessment and consulting services to help you overcome immediate challenges and realize long-term goals.
Our Solutions
- Talent Assessment
- Psychometric Tests
- Employee Survey
- EPSI Trainings
- Professional Development
- Employer Branding
- Organizational Development
- Strategic Planning
HRID
Our Psychometric Tests
We offer all the necessary solutions to ensure the recruitment and development of the best possible team.
Our catalog offers a wide range of tests for various types and levels of positions. It contains over 66 psychometric tests, including cognitive, personality, situational judgment, language, diversity and values, interest and motivation, office and leadership, knowledge, and more!
Competency Dictionary
Our HRID Competency Framework offers 60 competencies in eight specific areas. To maximize investments in employee recruitment, staffing, training, and evaluation, a competency dictionary is a must.
HRID is the new name for Competrica!
Our tests will continue to be available with Competrica titles and branding for our clients during the transition to HRID over the next few years.
Learn how to navigate the new site with a short demonstration video.
For any questions related to HRID, please contact us at the following address :

Business Partner : SHL
SHL
EPSI is thrilled to partner with SHL to provide our clients with cutting edge solutions, including virtual assessment centers and 360 degree assessments.
SHL brings powerful and transparent AI technology, data science, and objectivity to help companies attract, develop, and grow the workforce they need to succeed in the digital era. An industry leader in assessments and psychometric solutions, SHL has purchased all of the IBM Kenexa assessments. These tests will now be hosted on the EPSI testing platform.
See how SHL is leading the way with AI
Find the best practices to implement artificial intelligence in your organization.
SHL Blog
The SHL blog offers a wide range of resources on a variety of human resources and organizational management topics. You will certainly find many articles that will interest you!

8:00 to 8:50 AM EDT // FR
Comment faire du digital ou des new ways of work, un levier de l’expérience employé?
*This conference is only available in French.
Le monde du travail évolue de plus en plus vite, ce nouveau monde du travail s’installe et devient notre “nouveau normal” avec ses nouveaux modes d’organisation, de relation, ses nouveaux outils, ses nouvelles règles de communication, un rapport différent au temps, à la carrière, au Management, des générations avec de nouvelles attentes…
AVEC
Nicolas Roy
LinkedIn
Hélène Zapata
LinkedIn
Olivier Pinson
LinkedIn

9:00 to 9:50 AM EDT // FR
Modèle d’affaires personnel à Impact
*This conference is only available in French.
On connait de plus en plus comment innover le modèle d’affaires des organisations. Savez-vous qu’il existe aussi le modèle d’affaires personnel? À l’ère de la rareté de main-d’œuvre et de l’importance de maximiser son alignement et son impact positif, la méthodologie «Modèle d’Affaires Personnel» offre de clés concrètes pour comprendre, concevoir, innover et aligner votre modèle d’affaires personnel et professionnel.
AVEC
Ghani Kolli
LinkedIn

9:00 to 9:50 AM EDT // EN
The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Employee Experience
Emotional intelligence has never been more relevant in organizations. Labour shortages, the war for talent, and the need to improve performance and work climate require a high level of interpersonal skills. In this webinar, we will describe the fundamental principles of emotional intelligence, the tools to measure it and present some concrete approaches to improve emotional intelligence.
WITH
André Durivage
LinkedIn
Vicki-Anne Rodrigue
LinkedIn

9:00 to 9:50 AM EDT // FR
Entre bienveillance et tolérance : gérer les personnalités toxiques au nom de la bienveillance collective
*This conference is only available in French.
Vous avez certainement en tête un exemple de collègue/employé qui alourdissait lVous avez certainement en tête un exemple de collègue/employé qui alourdissait l’atmosphère des autres. Celui dont la compagnie semble *ne pas pouvoir se passer* pour X raison, au détriment du bien-être des autres. Dans ce webinaire, nous discuterons de l’impact des personnalités toxiques sur votre marque employeur ainsi que les raisons de faire prévaloir la bienveillance collective au nom de la pérennité de votre organisation.
AVEC
Andréanne Thibault
LinkedIn
Benjamin Lafrenière-Carrier
LinkedIn

10:00 to 10:50 EDT // FR
De la marque employeur à l’expérience employé: une condition de succès organisationnel!
*This conference is only available in French.
Ce webinaire permettra de positionner l’expérience employé comme ingrédient eCe webinaire permettra de positionner l’expérience employé comme ingrédient essentiel de la marque employeur. Il permettra d’approfondir en quoi elle consiste, ses bénéfices, les impacts de sa défaillance, ses principaux leviers, les acteurs-clés ainsi que l’expertise et l’accompagnement possible.
AVEC
Marie-Christine Drouin
LinkedIn
Stéphanie Crites
LinkedIn

10:00 to 10:50 AM EDT // FR
Mes employés, mes partenaires!
*This conference is only available in French.
Pour une entreprise dans le secteur industriel, la diversité des postes et compétences recherchées amène son lot de défis. Les ressources sont sollicitées de toutes parts, les choix sont multiples et la rareté de main-d’œuvre fait en sorte que l’entreprise doit demeurer unique comme milieu de travail. Assistez à un témoignage sur l’implantation de la démarche de marque employeur chez Soucy Industriel.
AVEC
Sylvain Tessier
LinkedIn
Frédérick Soucy
LinkedIn

10:00 to 10:50 EDT // EN
Improving Selection and Learning Through Modernized Psychometric Assessment Strategies
The future of workplace selection and learning is changing as new generations enter the job market. This conference will discuss how technologically driven and research-based psychometric assessment strategies can improve your organization’s employee branding. We will explore concepts such as gamification, situated cognition, and experiential learning, to maximize employee experience, strategic organizational branding, and the new reality of HR.
WITH
Sarah Linkletter
LinkedIn
Olfa Karoui
LinkedIn

11:00 to 11:50 AM EDT // FR
La santé mentale : une bonne AFFAIRE pour tous!
*This conference is only available in French.
Depuis 2 ans, on t’a ajouté une tâche de plus, soit prendre soin de la santé mentale de tes employés. Mais toi, superhéros de l’entreprise, COMMENT VAS-TU? Il est temps de prendre un temps pour toi, pour faire un bilan de ta santé mentale.
AVEC
Chantal Dufort
LinkedIn

11:00 to 11:50 AM EDT // FR
Le branding : la clé de la voûte de la marque employeur
*This conference is only available in French.
Attirer les employés et les conserver à son emploi sont des enjeux majeurs pour les organisations qui font face à une compétition féroce pour les talents. Un des outils majeurs à leur disposition est la marque employeur qui est étroitement associée au «Branding» de l’organisation. Comment avoir un impact sur les gens? Comment amener les gens à être fiers d’être associés au produit, à l’entreprise, à l’organisation?
AVEC
Chantal Durivage
LinkedIn
Jean-François Daviau
LinkedIn

11:00 to 11:50 AM EDT // EN
Change the Way you Change : How Hybrid Change the Way You Change : How Hybrid Leadership Is Crucial To Your Brand and What You Can Do About It?
Today’s workplace is made up of a myriad of models which include combinations of remote and in person realities. How do you manage & support this shift? How do you ensure on-going cohesion, collaboration, and engagement? This session is meant to push our reflection, and reconsider how we approach change, how we involve people, how decisions are made. This is the mindset shift we believe is needed now more than ever.
WITH
Anne Pertus
LinkedIn
Cyndee Ramu
LinkedIn

12:00 to 12:50 AM EDT // EN
Employee Engagement : The Key to Measuring and Improving Your Employer Brand
Your Employer Brand is your Reputation. Just like when marketing your products and services, in today’s environment of “The Great Resignation”, managing your employer brand is a crucial element of your organizational success. Done right, it will not only help you attract talent in highly volatile talent acquisition environment, but more importantly, it will help in employee retention and minimizing costly turnover.
WITH
Norm Baillie-David
LinkedIn
Employer Branding
HR Marketing VS Employer Branding
HR is increasingly at the center of discussions and concerns due to the current labor shortage. In this wave, the concepts of HR marketing and employer branding are very much on trend. Find out how they differ.
Meaning and Happiness at Work: “One Size Fits All”?
Happiness at work is reflective of the way an individual perceives their role, responsibilities, colleagues, superiors, and values in their work and organization. It is therefore important to put people at the heart of the organization in order to foster meaning at work. See the best ways to maximize happiness at work.
Being Benevolent… More Than a Buzzword
Performance, productivity, success, and profits have always been important in the workplace. However, just as with well-being at work, benevolence is becoming increasingly important. Discover 5 fundamental principles that will help you to include it in your organization.
Employee Experience
The Journey of an Employee Experience
The war for talent is fierce among organizations. The best employers seek this competitive advantage by offering an excellent employee experience. Discover the importance of mapping the entire employee’s lifecycle, from their pre-hiring experience up to their exit and beyond.
Measuring the Entire Employee Lifecycle
Wanted! Apply Here! Wages Negotiable! Now Hiring! These signs are everywhere. There are as many advertising campaigns for recruitment as there are for normal product offerings. How can we as employers find and keep good employees to keep our businesses running?
Recognition at Work: The Many Benefits on the Overall Health and Happiness at Work
Employee recognition goes far beyond employee satisfaction and loyalty to your organization. Recognition can have benefits on the mental and physical health of your employees as well as on organizational health. Learn more about the importance of integrating this practice in your workplace.
Why Optimize the Employee Experience by Building on Their Strengths?
Organizational psychology research shows that work engagement, specifically productivity is directly related to the satisfaction of employee needs. Discover the benefits of focusing on your employees’ strengths to provide an optimal employee experience.
The Different Approaches to Recognition at Work
We have been hearing more and more about waves of resignations occurring throughout organizations. Companies must now be proactive and put in place means to retain their employees. Find out the different approaches that employee recognition can take and how to implement it within your organization.
How to Optimize the Employee Experience by Using Their Strengths?
We all need to feel competent in our interactions, choices and healthy relationships at work. Find out how to recognize your strengths and those of your employees and put them into action.
Professional Development
The development of your resources is an integral part of the process that facilitates the implementation of the changes you wish to implement within your organization. At EPSI, our objective is to accompany individuals on their path to professional fulfillment. Whether for your employees or for yourself, our personalized solutions encourage reflection, informed decision making, goal setting, and strategy adoption.
Get real results.
- Increase your individual performance;
- Promote your well-being at work;
- Assess your career;
- Develop your management skills;
- Facilitate your professional transition;
- Actualize the full potential of your teams;
- Prepare the succession of your company;
- Plan your retirement.
Self-Management: A Key Competency For Today’s Workforce
Career development is more important than ever in the discussions of guidance professionals. Several sources state that adults will make between 5 and 7 career transitions in their lifetime. This desire to remain motivated and efficient drives today’s worker.
How we can help you
- Professional coaching
- Management coaching
- Team coaching
- Skills assessment
- Career counseling
- Training and workshops
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence varies according to each individual’s personality type. The HRID Emo test will be mentioned during various conferences. For a limited time, we are offering you the opportunity to complete the test for free in order to obtain your profile and a report.
Why High Emotional Intelligence Is the Roadmap to Wellness?
In our article, discover the impact of emotional intelligence on your physical and psychological health, as well as the strategies you can adopt to develop it.
Employee Engagement
Take the Pulse With Worker Engagement Platforms
All employees, at every level, are looking for a workplace that meets their specific needs. Your company should therefore focus on creating a culture that is intended for a diverse, multi-generational workforce in order to drive meaningful engagement, attract top talent, and make sure they’re content.
Staffing, Turnover Rate and Voluntary Departures
Departure interviews are an important step in understanding turnover and reducing overall staffing expenditures. However, in many cases, they are not sufficient! Discover ways to improve the effectiveness of strategic efforts relating to voluntary resignations.
How to Understand Your Employees With Pulse Surveys
The purpose of opinion surveys is to get quick feedback from your employees so you can implement changes quickly, if necessary. Survey your employees to help you determine your strengths and weaknesses in certain areas.
Organizational Culture
Why Be Interested in Values When Recruiting?
In this era of widespread labor shortages, more and more companies are competing to attract and retain top talent. To this end, a growing number of organizations are identifying and publicizing their values and using them to assess potential employees. Find why it is important to focus on values when recruiting.
Diversity and Inclusion: Divergent Perceptions Between Leaders and Employees
Find out how to promote an inclusive and diverse organizational culture.
Being Human Doesn’t Always Lead Us to Act With Humanity Yet It Can!
Workplaces are micro-systems that are impacted by and can in return impact the outside world. In our organization, we question ourselves constantly as to whether or not we are truly embracing differences. Check out what Caroline Samne of The Pillars had to say on the subject.
Organizational Growth
Performance at Work: How to Assess It… in 2021?
Achieving your strategic objectives requires effective performance management. This process is essential to align your people, resources, and systems. Discover the benefits of adopting a renewed performance management process.
Digital Natives: A New Generation of Learners in Our Organizations
The idea that technologies and millennials are disrupting structures, processes, and even culture within organizations is not new. Discover what characterizes digital natives and how you can stimulate their development within your organization in this competitive and innovative (numeric) business environment.
A Human-Centric Roadmap to Transformation and Alignment
In this article of The Pillars, one of our partners, explore how the changes brought about by recent events have been addressed, how to thrive through change in general and why we may get stuck in the process of transformation.
Strategic Planning
On October 28, 2021, we proudly announced the integration of ST Marketing’s professional expertise into its strategic business consulting services. The combination of our two consulting forces has allowed us to further expand EPSI’s range of services and to confirm our commitment to continually support our partner clients in their growth
Entrepreneurial Succession : Why and How to Plan Succession
An important aspect of strategic planning is to establish an effective plan to ensure a successful entrepreneurial succession in your organization. Why is entrepreneurial succession so important? How can it be planned?
Leadership
Leadership: The Impact of Employee Attraction
Leadership is the starting point for increasing employee engagement. Learn about leadership styles and how to apply them in different contexts.
ID-Leadership (Ldr) Test
Get a portrait of your leadership styles or those of your collaborators with our ID-Leadership test (Ldr) from HRID! You will have the opportunity to accurately measure key aspects of leadership, whether for recruitment, succession development or coaching purposes.
The Five Competencies of Tomorrow
The need to remain adaptable has motivated us to go further and consider other key competencies that today’s employers will be looking for in tomorrow’s employees. Our research has led to some interesting findings… Read this blog to find out what they are.
How to Effectively Motivate Your Employees?
Would you like your employees to be more engaged in their work and give 110%? This is, in many instances, a motivational issue! Find the solutions to your questions in this resource.
Talent Assessment
How to Modernize Your Approach to Hire the Best?
To attract talent, many employers seek to distinguish themselves from others, whether through their employer brand, organizational values, or generous working conditions. However, well before the “employee experience” comes the “candidate experience”, an essential preliminary step that must not be neglected. Find examples of virtualization that promote a humane and personalized candidate approach.
Are Pre-employment Assessments Still Useful?
The lack of personnel is one of the most important problems for business leaders and human resources departments. We need to be able to review our selection criteria in order to find someone; but, we still need to have criteria! Discover the importance and the relevance of using pre-employment assessments.
Learn More About Our Solutions!
- Hire high-performing employees
- Increase your talent retention
- Simplify your recruitment and assessment processes
- Enhance the candidate and employee experience
- Reduce process costs
- Promote the implementation of your employer brand
- Increase organizational performance
Mental Health
Mental Health at the Heart of Our Concerns
It may seem difficult to determine where to start in order to ensure the well-being and fulfillment of your employees and colleagues. Find out what you can do to positively impact the mental health of your employees.
Does Your Organization Prioritize Your Employees’ Psychological Health and Safety?
Increasingly, for many organizations, psychological health issues are a major concern. By implementing the Standard and ensuring that these psychosocial factors are anchored at the heart of an organization, employers can ensure invaluable success in terms of workforce engagement and loyalty.
We All Have a Role to Play!
Mental health affects us all, so it is imperative that we be mindful of it, especially in a professional setting. Learn how to be aware of it in your daily work life by reading our blog post.
Trait d’union Outaouais
To mark World Autism Month, we would like to introduce Trait d’Union Outaouais, a non-profit organization established in the region for over 25 years.
Mission
Offer services to people with autism to promote their integration into the community.
Goals
- Help people with autism to develop their potential;
- Break the isolation of people with autism and their families;
- Inform families of people with autism about the resources that meet their needs;
- Collaborate with the family and the various partners so that everyone uses the same approach with the autistic person;
- Encourage the creation of new services in the region;
- Make the community aware of the realities experienced by people with autism and those around them.
Since May 2018, EPSI has been helping to raise funds which mainly serve to finance specialized day camps for our autistic friends. We invite you to donate via the link below:
All voluntary donations from registrations for the 2022 Symposium and activities carried out within the EPSI team will be donated to Trait d’Union Outaouais.
We sincerely thank you for your great generosity!