Month: June 2018

Recruiting in a Candidate Short Market – what you need to do differently for success

Recruiting in a Candidate Short Market – what you need to do differently for success

There are not many businesses who enjoy recruiting. In the majority of cases recruiting means someone has left the business and you need to replace a person in your business. Recruiting is perceived to be time consuming, distracting from day to day business, costly from a down time, advertising and time perspective. Not to mention […]

4 reasons why video needs to be part of your recruitment strategy

4 reasons why video needs to be part of your recruitment strategy

Technology has drastically changed the way we attract and source talent when recruiting. Jobs sections in newspapers are diminishing, online job boards are less effective than what they used to be so in today’s world of technology, how do you attract and source the best talent for your vacancy? Video You’ve probably noticed that video […]

Minimum wage to rise 3.5% – Are you paying enough?

Minimum wage to rise 3.5% – Are you paying enough?

The biggest minimum wage rise since 2010 will see a 3.5% increase in the National Minimum Wage and modern award rates from 1 July 2018. The Fair Work Commission points to ‘healthy national economy and labour market’ in making decision to raise minimum wage to $719.20 a week. With a 6.8% increase in last 12 […]

Temp work changed my life

Temp work changed my life

I’m a big advocate of temp work. Doing temp work for a period of time changed my career direction and ultimately changed my life. It was the best decision I could have made at that time – not that I knew that then. Let me take you back to 2006. I was at a career […]