The financial services firm
Edward Jones was named to the top 10 of the
Toronto Star's list of the
Top 50 employers in the GTA last week. It's a familiar position for the company, who appear on a variety of "Best Employer" lists every year (including, in 2009, the
Globe and Mail's Report on Business 50 Best Employers in Canada List (
pdf) and the "Best Workplaces in Canada" list conducted by Great Place to Work Institute Canada (
pdf))
According to Edward Jones General Partner Kevin Birch, the job satisfaction comes from a clarity in the firm's employees' mission. "We don't have multiple foci -- we have one focus. That's to serve conservative long-term individual investors. And that focus is galvanizing and exciting," he says.
The firm -- headquartered internationally in Missouri and locally in Mississauga -- came to Toronto in 1995, and has grown since to employ about 600 people in the GTA. Birch, who leads a project within the company focused on growth in the company, says that Edward Jones expects to hire an additional 440 staff in Toronto by the end of 2013. "By then we'll have over 400 branches in the area, and frankly we'll still feel like that's just a good start," he says.
Writer: Edward Keenan
Source: Kevin Birch, General Partner, Edward Jones
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