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SASKATCHEWAN’S TOP EMPLOYERS (2025)
CITY OF SASKATOON
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The City of Saskatoon embraces innovation, offering hybrid ways of collaborating whenever possible.
Saskatchewan top employers take a creative approach to recruiting
In the province’s competitive labour market, candidates are seeking opportunities to achieve personal and professional goals
F
aced with one of the tightest
labour markets in Canada,
forward-thinking companies made
the Saskatchewan Top Employers
(2025) winners list by understanding what
motivates today’s workers and by infusing
flexibility, a sense of purpose and personal
focus into their policies and programs.
To hire the people you need and want,
it’s no longer simply a case of “show me
the money.” Today’s workers want their
personal goals and values to align with
their employer’s mission, vision and
corporate objectives, including programs
to achieve work-life balance.
Offering tuition subsidies is one way to
help employees meet their personal and
professional goals, says Richard Yerema,
executive editor of Canada’s Top Employers.
According to Yerema, 76 per cent of the
companies on the Saskatchewan’s Top
Employers list subsidize coursework that is
not related to an employee’s current role.
“Opportunities like this are particularly
attractive to those younger workers in the
Gen Z and Gen Alpha demographics who
prize flexible work schedules, time off,
connections to community and
opportunities for learning,” says Yerema.
At BHP Canada Inc., the push is on to
hire people for the 2026 launch of
operations at their Jansen potash mine.
Lisa Wild, principal lead of talent
acquisition and onboarding at BHP, says
that candidates often ask questions related
to hybrid and work-from-home
