BBOT PNG Speaker, March 14th

James Palmeter, Miles Employment Group
Senior Account Executive, Contract Manager

James is responsible for Business Development for the Miles Employment Group Ltd. James brings with him over 12 years of sales and management experience, predominantly in the staffing industry. He most recently was Key Accounts Manager for a large, multinational staffing services firm based in Vancouver, where he achieved 237% of sales quota in 2004, ranking him number one in the Canadian sales force. James is an active member of the Burnaby and Vancouver Boards of Trade. He is also active in the community and his involvement includes ongoing volunteer work for the Canadian Cancer Society and the Union Gospel Mission. James has a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from Carleton University in Ottawa.


Corporate Profile

The Miles Employment Group is proud to be a 100% BC owned and operated corporate staffing provider. Our expert customer service team brings over 50 years of combined experience in human resources and corporate staffing to our clients. We are proven successful recruiters, having successfully delivered staffing to a wide variety of permanent, temporary and contract recruiting campaigns for a variety of clients including: Club Intrawest, Citizen’s Bank, HSBC, RBC Insurance, Bell Canada, BC Housing Management Commission, Providence Health Care, Terasen Gas, Lawson Lundell, Michael Smith Foundation for Health & Research, Vancouver Art Gallery, The David Suzuki Foundation, Epic Data, Alcan, The Bay, Public Health Agency of Canada, ICBC, Genome BC, Sierra Wireless, TBWA, Telus Mobility, Chalk Media, ACCPAC, Ipsos Reid, QLT, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Veteran’s Affairs, Nature’s Path Foods and Ticketmaster Canada. We have recently been awarded a long-term staffing contract via RFP process to the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) and the Federal Government Standing offer for the supply of temporary help. We have also negotiated long-term standing contracts with Fluor Canada Ltd, HUDD Distribution (a Maersk Logistics Company). Our focus is on entry-level to upper management temporary, permanent and contract staffing services and human resource consulting services.

The Miles Employment Group has a solid understanding of local labour market issues and our recruitment staff comprise of highly experienced and qualified human resource professionals dedicated to the supply of staffing and HR services to private and public sector clientele. Strategically, The Miles Employment Group has an Advisory Board made up of successful business people in Vancouver who assist in providing an external perspective and provide insight on the company’s strategic initiatives.

The founders created a company designed to add real value to all stakeholders: clients, applicants, candidates, internal staff, their suppliers, and the community at large. The Miles Employment Group is strategic in its approach to business, enthusiastically customer service driven, and strives on all accounts to provide the best possible solutions to our clients and candidates. Our Four Strategic Priorities: Customer-Centric Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility, Research & Innovation and Technology, are the cornerstone to our early success. We have established excellent relationships with our growing client base and are proud to be building our business from referrals and repeat business. We have harnessed the latest online recruiting and testing technologies and have been fortunate to build a highly-experienced and cohesive team of human resource professionals who share common values, common goals, and work in complete collaboration. Our robust technology, targeted marketing campaigns and select partnerships have enabled us to enjoy international reach towards high quality talent and have allowed us to secure high profile clientele in a relatively short time