Our Clients

EPSI maintains long-term relations with major clients in a number of sectors of economic activities. Regardless of their areas of activity, our clients share three concerns: innovation, effectiveness, and the search for quality.

This is exactly what we offer them.

Our clients primarily operate in the following sectors:

Banking and finance

As 15-year partners of the Desjardins Group and its Canadian entities, including Desjardins Financial Security and Desjardins General Insurance, we have acquired significant expertise in evaluating banking and finance-related personnel.

Indeed, the Desjardins Group is among the 100 largest financial institutions in the world and ranks 18th in North America. It employs some 45,000 people at 430 branches and 878 service centres in Quebec alone. The diversity of the Desjardins Group's positions and the implications of its organizational structure have enabled EPSI to prove its incredible versatility and efficiency in the assessment and evaluation field.

Public administration

In the past 10 years, EPSI has helped assess the best candidates for positions to be filled at various federal and provincial government departments, including Foreign Affairs Canada, Environment Canada, National Defence (Canada), Canada Revenue Agency, Revenue Québec, and the Centre de services partagés du Québec. Many municipalities, including the City of Montreal and the City of Gatineau, have also called on our products and services. We are regularly invited by clients to participate on their executive boards in order to better identify inherent organizational problems. Our products and services provide the versatility needed to find the ideal candidate at every level, from employee to senior manager.

Through these various mandates, we have honed our expertise with countless federal and provincial government departments and provided extensive management support and advice at both the municipal and national level.

Energy

Approximately 23,000 employees work at Hydro-Québec, a leading distributor, transporter and producer of electricity in North America. Gaz de France (GrDF), a leading European gas group, brings together all trades associated with natural gas: exploration- production, sales-purchasing, transport, distribution and energy services.

EPSI offers these two unique organizations the advice, products and services needed to recruit both specialized and non-specialized personnel, in keeping with their objectives.

Information, culture and leisure

The information, culture and leisure sector encompasses a multitude of professions and trades. Our versatility enables us to meet the expectations of such prestigious clients as the Société des casinos du Québec, which manages and develops casinos in Quebec; Société Radio-Canada, Canada's national public radio broadcaster and one of the largest cultural instructions in the country, as well as Mont-Sainte-Anne, one of the most majestic alpine ski resorts in Quebec.

Health

The numerous complex activities performed by people who work at hospitals and other health agencies can represent a major challenge for HR departments. Fortunately, our clients benefit from the experience of our seasoned specialists, who know the dynamics of Quebec's health network thoroughly.

We are able to support our clients in this sector with a multitude HR services, including succession planning.

We also conduct business with many health network agencies, including Greater Outaouais' various health and social services centres.

Education

We have developed a cutting edge expertise in the education sector through our work with several academic institutions. Our clients include the Université de Montréal, Quebec's leading university and research centre, the Université Laval, a rich community of 44,000 students, many Quebec colleges, as well as various Quebec and Ontario schools councils and boards.

EPSI uses its expertise to identify candidates who can best meet the challenges facing this sector, in which change has become the norm for all positions, be that of a teacher, principal, administrative director or executive director.

Food and beverage

Carrying out personnel evaluation mandates for clients such as Coca-Cola Europe, whose growth is driven by innovation, is a challenge that we particularly enjoy undertaking.

Our presence in the food and beverage industry is another major asset used by EPSI to provide innovative products and services.

Transportation

We are also active in the transportation sector, having carried out mandates for Orléans Express, a leading Canadian coach operator, the Réseau de transport de la Capitale, which provides Québec City residents with mass transit services, and the Société des transports de l'Outaouais, which provides a reliable mass transit system to municipal residents within its territory.

Forest

Clients from the forest and paper sector require our EPSI's services and products in order to help them recruit personnel as turnover and retention is a significant problem for this industry.

EPSI is always mindful of this reality when choosing the type of products and services to offer clients such as Fraser Papers, Papier Masson and Kruger Products.

Tourism

In the hotel and leisure sector, organizations such as the Ritz-Carlton, the Hilton Lac-Leamy hotel, and the Comité sectoriel de la main-d'ouvre, du commerce et de l'alimentation, have often benefited from our cutting edge expertise in the HR field.

Services

We have signed agreements with human resources firms nationally and internationally in order to ensure that we are able to offer a variety of cutting edge recruitment services, products and advice to our clients, wherever they may be.

Information technology

We have developed extensive expertise in the information technology sector through mandates with high tech firms and government departments. Cactus Commerce, Outaouais Tourism's official technology partner, is one of many clients who have benefited from our key personnel recruitment advice and products.

Pharmaceuticals

The pharmaceutical industry is always on the lookout for qualified personnel at every hierarchical level. Our firm has met the needs of many firms in this sector and continues to be a prominent player in this field.