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7 things to consider before you employ your first employee
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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 loading, sick leave, induction, training, uniform/protective clothing, tools, plant and equipment, computer, workstation. Decide on the person’s employment status Do you need a full-time, part-time or...

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Top 10 Hiring Mistakes - #10 - Hiring on Skills Only
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Top 10 Hiring Mistakes - #10 - Hiring on Skills Only

As a hiring adviser to many businesses, one of the most common questions I get asked is what is the biggest mistakes you can make when hiring. To be perfectly honest, there are many mistakes that can happen during any process and it is because of this, as well as them being relatively unknown, that...

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Video killed the phone interview star
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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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You interview as a recruiter is of utmost importance
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You interview as a recruiter is of utmost importance

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Finding the Right Staff: The Key to Good Service

There is a lot of discussion about the value of good service, and innumerable training programs to assist business owners and staff deliver a quality customer experience, and yet the experience, especially in the retail space, of the average Australian customer falls short.  When compared to the...

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What Are The Most Common Interview Questions And How Do I Answer Them?

So you have been searching the internet for ages and you have finally come across your dream Construction Sales Job, you send over your CV and you get an email to say they would like you to come in for an interview. You are over the moon, this could be the chance to give up the boring job you are...

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How To Attract Millennials (Without Lure Modules)
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How To Attract Millennials (Without Lure Modules)

The era of the baby boomers as the dominant generation is coming to an end as our parents start to retire (woohoo, cheap childcare!) Baby boomers have been called a golden generation for enterprise and entrepreneurialism and that is evinced by the multinational corporations that dominate the global stock markets. With this change in demographics big businesses are facing a real threat that they will struggle to attract replacements. The reason for this? Millennials – the generation soon to...

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How to Deal with Ageism in Recruitment
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How to Deal with Ageism in Recruitment

Age bias in recruitment is more common than you think. The best way is to prepare for it and deal with it during the job interview. Address the interviewer’s unconscious bias professionally to help you nail the job.   Changing jobs can be challenging at any age, but what happens when you are over...

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Top 10 hiring mistakes - #7 - poor reference checks - or lack thereof
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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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Why Every SME should build a business case before hiring

Are you thinking of creating a new role to take some load off your shoulders or finally filling in a long standing vacancy? If you were hiring new people without creating a proper business case – perhaps you would want to review that practice. Building a business case before hiring helps you make...

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It's halloween...what can hirers learn from today?
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It's halloween...what can hirers learn from today?

Halloween is a great time for kids and a chance to let the ‘spooky side’ have a play, usually with kids dressing up going from house to house looking for treats, which they happily consume in a matter of seconds afterwards. But what can kids trick or treating teach us about hiring? Surprisingly a...

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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 – #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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Would you accept to be interview by a robot for your dream job?

Going to a job interview, it is already nerve wrecking, but what about if the interviewer is a robot? Sophie (btw, stupid name for a robot) is cute but don’t be fooled by her looks because she could soon be conducting your toughest-ever job interview, monitoring not just what you say but tiny...

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Ten Tips On Attracting Good Employees To Your Company
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Ten Tips On Attracting Good Employees To Your Company

Evolution of the business market, and standards imposed by large companies on maintaining their employees have made it incredibly hard for starting businesses and small and medium scale industries to attract good employees. Today the lifestyle and the standard of living of people have improved so much that good employees are spoiled for choice, and can even afford to wait and choose the right job to come by. So if you’re keen on improving your business, then you need to know how to attract good...

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The secret to employing millennials and keeping them!
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The secret to employing millennials and keeping them!

Millennials (those born 1988 – 1996) are now well and truly entrenched in the workforce, bringing with them a host of hurdles for SME employers to jump through. They are the digital native generation and they bring with them new skills and the opportunities for SMEs to grow in line with technology...

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Why recruiters are more important than you think
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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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With the advent of technology, the hiring process has become easy
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With the advent of technology, the hiring process has become easy

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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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Top 10 hiring mistakes - #4 - on-boarding stuff-ups

Let’s get these statistics out there straight away: candidates / new employees who do not have an effective on-boarding process to go through with their employer are 22% more likely to leave within 6 weeks of starting (from a study by the US-based The Wynhurst Group). If, then, the role is more...

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