ment-related needs, assess employee
        
        
          performance, compile and report ap-
        
        
          plicable government documentation,
        
        
          coordinate employee logistics, and
        
        
          steer many other HR-related adminis-
        
        
          trative responsibilities.
        
        
          “The Eskan Company is owned by the
        
        
          people of Mistissini,” continues Wa-
        
        
          pachee. “As such, we have a commit-
        
        
          ment to develop our community—be
        
        
          it through jobs, initiatives, training,
        
        
          etc. Eskan continually seeks new busi-
        
        
          ness opportunities in an effort to build
        
        
          capacity in the local workforce and
        
        
          locally-owned enterprises. Using the
        
        
          previous four years as a sample, we
        
        
          have injected approximately $17 mil-
        
        
          lion into the local economy and have
        
        
          created and helped sustain multiple
        
        
          APRIL 2018
        
        
          H
        
        
          business elite canada
        
        
          
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