This is just a chapter, not your whole story. You know that moment when you’re at a friend’s BBQ (ok, I know this seems like a distant memory at the moment) and someone asks you what you do for work and you talk about how you deliver Outplacement services. The blank look on peoples’ faces […]
The Importance of Work Experience and Work Placement
Work experience shaped my career path. I was fortunate during secondary school to have the opportunity to complete multiple work experiences. Completing what was known at the time as a VET subject, allowed for the additional weeks of work experience, in addition to the standard year 10 week of work experience. My first work experience […]
Is your business mentally healthy?
Talking with clients this past week, staff morale and mental health following lockdown 5.0 has hit an all-time low. There are a number of factors contributing to this including employees working from home for the foreseeable future due to capacity restrictions, cancellation of leave plans and often missing out on their holidays by just 24 […]
How To Keep A Valuable Employee
All too often our most valuable and successful team members get bored in their current role and want more. They are hungry for a new challenge or more of a challenge because their current role has become the same old for them. Or they want to broaden their skill set with a new role or […]
First Impressions – they start earlier than you think!
First impressions count! Whether it be in your professional or personal life, I’m sure you can recall a time where you’ve wanted to make a good first impression. In recruitment, first impressions are often formed earlier than many realise. In today’s current climate (and lockdown 5.0 here in Victoria) first impressions aren’t always made face […]
6 Tips for Conducting Performance Reviews
The end of the financial year is still a common time for many businesses to conduct the annual performance review or appraisal. With many businesses moving away from the annual review to more regular conversations and providing feedback in the moment, many businesses do still conduct an annual review or formalise the performance meetings and […]
Wage Theft: Are you protected?
With the recent July 1 increases to minimum wages and superannuation, employers are frantically ensuring that pay rates are updated and superannuation entitlements are correct. Whilst you think your work might be done once the increases are in place, a lot of employers forget another important step. Ensuring that their employees are on the correct […]
What I Would Tell My 15-Year-Old Self
Many people live their careers by accident, without a lot of strategy. Remember back to the day when you were preparing to leave school, and the most common question you were asked was ‘what do you want to do’? This question can bring with it anxiety for some people who actually have no idea. I […]
Minimum Wage Rises by 2.5% – What does this mean for you?
Minimum Wage Rises by 2.5% and Superannuation increased from 9.5% to 10% The Fair Work Commission recently announced a 2.5% increase to minimum wages, making the new national minimum wage $772.60 per week or $20.33 per hour. Ian Ross, the Commission’s President, advised that the panel had decided that the “markedly better” economic climate this […]
Beware of Free Download Employment Contracts
An employment contract is the document that sets out the terms and conditions of employment between an employer and the employee. It’s designed to protect both the employee and the employer in regards to their rights and entitlements; and while legally you don’t have to have an employment contract in place to employ an employee, […]