Interim CEO’s Message
MASTER APEGA
Annual General Meeting and Conference, in April in Edmonton. Our professional development offerings are improving all the time, including sessions about APEGA’s regulatory roles and requirements. We know how important this regulatory
Also live since January is our new job board, which operates on an intuitive, user- friendly platform. This is a great tool for employers and Members, helping connect the right people to the right jobs in difficult economic times. More than 400 companies have registered, posting about 550 jobs so far. The job board amounts to one-stop shopping for Members and employers. Members know their resumes are being perused by legitimate engineering and geoscience employers. And employers know potential applicants who are not professionally qualified are pre-filtered from searches — because only Members have access to postings. Professional development sessions sold out at APEGA Summit 2016: the
serve the public interest by regulating the practices of engineering and geoscience in Alberta. As leaders, directors, and managers at APEGA embarked on the planning process for our next business plan, each depart- ment prepared a self-evaluated scorecard. It measured how well we are doing in relation to a performance bar. Are we delivering what we need to deliver, and are we in compliance with the Act? The exercise helped us determine that there is much to do to strengthen the foun- dation of APEGA, both from an operational and a regulatory excellence perspective. It will take more resources to be a more effective regulator. By 2020, we may even need to have increased dues by $200 to $300 per Member. This possibility was raised in the winter 2015 CEO’s Message — a column that also said we will need to begin that journey with a dues increase in 2017. We continue to dialogue with Council on what the first increase will look like, along with when it and further increases will be implemented. Stay tuned. The winter edition of The PEG will be themed Planning and Preparation. At that time, I’ll look at the high-level document that all our business stems from: the 2017-2019 Strategic Plan , which your elected Council has created. What do you and your regulator need to do to act upon its directions? I hope to answer that question and maybe a few others. Visit apega.ca to read the plan.
training is, and our Members are responding positively to this focus.
Members honoured their peers with 46 nominations for Summit Awards in 2016, the largest number in years and 20 more than we received in 2015. From my viewpoint, the quality of nominations and recipients was extremely high. A new and improved APEGA mentoring program is launching this fall. We’ll be using online matching software, to make the program more efficient and the pairings of mentee and mentor more successful. Permit Holder participation in our annual salary survey increased again, to 177 companies from 156 in 2015. This improves our data, and we’re sure many of you will put the resulting document, the Value of Professional Services , to good use. We continue to improve our engagement with Branches, which represent our Members at the grassroots level throughout the province. Branches have been directly involved in our legislative review; a champions collaborative of Members from across Alberta have made sure of that.
AND FINALLY
APEGA most certainly faces challenges. Olympian challenges, you might even say. So let me end by thanking our Cana- dian athletes for a job well done in Brazil. A medal count of 22 is something to be proud of, surpassing the pre-Games goal of 19. Congratulations. You are an inspiration to us all — APEGA included!
WHAT’S NEXT
Our business plan approach in 2017 falls under the banner of Strengthening Our Foundation. This speaks to our continuing need, as I said earlier in this column, to meet a deceivingly simple goal: to
Questions? ceo@apega.ca
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