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Is This the Key Ingredient of a Positive Workplace Culture?

A positive workplace culture can increase the morale across your team, boost productivity, improve performance and help you enhance staff retention. Although a high employee turnover doesn't necessarily mean your business is a terrible place to work, it can indicate that there is room for improvement in your workplace culture. Find out how to improve your workplace culture and create a team of people that add exceptional value to your business. I recently read one of those articles that make...

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Is This the Key Interview Question for Employers?

Finding the right person for a role can be difficult. Not only do you have to find someone that is qualified and has adequate experience, but you need to ensure they're the right fit for your team. Choosing the right person for a role also depends on the qualities you seek in an employee. It...

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Why Creating a Talent Brand Is the Right Way to Go

There is no doubt about the importance of attracting clients to your brand and making them love your business. But very often we forget about the other side of the coin - the employee aka talent brand. Each one of the people involved in your company should contribute to the creation of an...

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The Surgeon’s Dilemma: How to Find Out if You Have Unconscious Bias

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7 things to consider before you employ your first employee

So, your business is growing and you need to employ your first employee. You acknowledge that you can’t keep doing everything yourself. What do you need to consider? The cost of employing someone Wages, superannuation, workers' compensation insurance, annual leave, long service leave, leave...

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How to Navigate the Hiring Evolution

Almost all businesses undergo the process of hiring and experience the cycle that comes with it. The first stage is as a start-up. The second stage occurs once the business experiences growth, which brings up different hiring needs. The final stage is expansion, where the business will begin...

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Effective Recruiting Strategies To Hire Best Talent

In a highly competitive job market, the onus is on recruiters and HR professionals to think outside the box if they want to hire the best talent. Creative recruiting strategies are critical to source, attract and then retain the cream of the candidate crop. We will discuss some of the most popular creative recruiting strategies, and with good reason. Self-selection Screening Self-selection screening is a way of pre-qualifying applicants. Simply introduce an open invitation event to...

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With the advent of technology, the hiring process has become easy

Technology has changed everything and it is your absolute best buddy. But sometimes it creates many problems to mankind. For example, if we are excited after buying our own gadget, the technology of the gadget may make us frustrated by its poor performance compared to our expectations. Likewise,...

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Video killed the phone interview star

So by now you’ve probably heard of video interviewing as the ‘next big thing’ in recruitment. But what is it all about? How does it work? Should you be considering it? Video interviewing involves using software that allows candidates to record their answers to a number of interview questions...

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Top 10 hiring mistakes - #1 - not a plan in sight

Here it is: the Number 1 hiring mistake...and potentially the one causing the most issues for any business. Going for a bushwalk into an area you have not been before without a map and proper preparations is akin to trying to blow up jelly with dynamite: it’s pointless and potentially dangerous....

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A Proactive Approach to Conflict Prevention - 5 things to ask yourself before you ask the candidate

Hiring a new staff member is often an exciting and stressful time. You’ve worked your way through the CVs and made a short list. Interviews had been scheduled, you’ve got a list of questions to ask and you are ready to meet the candidates – or are you? Few recruiters think about the potential for...

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How to interview for a new employee

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5 Low Cost Ways to Attract Top Talent

Hiring the right people to work in your business and for your business has always been one of the most crucial aspects of a successful organisation. Given the current skill shortage for the high consumer expectations and demands in the market, small business especially struggle with attracting top...

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Top 10 hiring mistakes - #6 - hiring ourselves

How many times have we seen decisions made during a hiring process based on a simple case of distinct similarities? How many times have business owners / Directors / Hiring Managers hired someone who is a carbon copy of themselves? Surprisingly (or perhaps not so) it happens far more often...

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Top 10 hiring mistakes - #9 - panic hiring

The moment when a staff member leaves or an influx of new work hits a business is usually the time it reduces to panic stations in an attempt to replace or cater. It is this panic, though, that breeds poor hiring decisions, as they are based on nothing but a simple concept of “they will do”. “They Will Do” is code for simplistic and pretty much baseless decisions – they look good, speak well, seem to have some of the skills…and they are there. They are hired in an instant, usually forgoing...

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Why employer branding is dead

I was sitting in a talent conference in December last year when Bill Boormann, one of the world’s leading recruitment experts, dropped this bombshell, “Employer Branding is dead”. Now, I run a website that essentially provides an Employer Branding solution, so I swallowed hard and felt my heart...

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Why recruiters are more important than you think

A wise man once said: “a company is only as great as its employees”. You might be the greatest leader ever, or your company might have the best invention known to man, but if your employees are not up to the task, then you stand a higher risk of failing. Finding and selecting employees isn’t as...

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Top 10 hiring mistakes – #2 – assuming the offer is the end of the process

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Top 10 hiring mistakes – #3 – position description failures

At the time when you want to put your role to market, your aim is to attract the best candidates, right? Getting something simple like the wording of the position description could be the difference by being handed several great candidates, or showered in dross. In my 15 years of recruitment I...

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Top 10 hiring mistakes - #7 - poor reference checks - or lack thereof

In the countdown of the Top 10 Hiring Mistakes, we land at number 7 - Poor Reference Checks...or lack thereof. Because, what I find interesting in speaking with businesses about their hiring process is this: Reference checks are often an afterthought and poorly done - if done at all. Good...

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