Month: November 2015

Volunteering – Everyone should be doing it

Volunteering – Everyone should be doing it

Last week I was asked to share my Volunteering experiences with the 2015 Leadership Ballarat and Western Region program participants. In preparing for and sharing my volunteering experiences it made me reflect on the contribution I have made and value I have added to various organisations I have supported over the years as well as […]

Nobody likes to be rejected

Nobody likes to be rejected

You’ve gone through the recruitment process; you’ve read resumes, conducted phone screens and interviews – multiple rounds of interviews in fact, completed reference checks, done behavioural profiling and assessment. You’ve made your offer of employment to your preferred candidate and they have rejected you. They’ve turned you down, maybe you’ve offered more money to try […]

Covering Letters – don’t miss this crucial step when recruiting

Covering Letters – don’t miss this crucial step when recruiting

Requesting candidates to submit a covering letter along with their resume when applying for your next vacancy is one crucial step in the application process that you don’t want to skip. It’s easy to get caught up and focus on the resume however the covering letter is worth its weight in gold and will help […]

Become a resume screening champion

Become a resume screening champion

Reading through resumes and deciding who to take through to the next stage of the recruitment process can be a time consuming process. Depending on the type of job you have advertised for you may have been inundated with applications and need to weed out the applications that don’t meet your selection criteria as quickly […]