The Fair Work Commission recently increased the National Minimum Wage and modern Award rates by 3.5%, which took effect on 1 July 2018. With a 6.8% increase in Award rates in the last 12 months, together with the new anti “wage theft” laws proposed by the Andrews Government for Victoria, it has never been more […]
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
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?
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
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 […]
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 […]
Employability Skills – are they becoming extinct?
More and more employers want people with employability skills. Less and less job seekers seem to have employability skills. Where is the disconnect? By employability skills I mean the skills and attributes, the values and personal qualities an individual has to offer an employer. The skills and attributes that help a person to succeed in […]
Procrastinating does no one any favours when terminating employment
If you are a people manager, chances are at some stage you’ve been confronted with having to make the decision to terminate one of your team members employment. I don’t think I have ever met a people manager who enjoys this element of the job or hasn’t lost sleep over making a decision that will […]
Care first – Manage second
We have all experienced a high pressure work situation. The looming critical deadline. The tender that needs to be submitted or the manufacturing production schedule that needs to be obtained to make a shipment. Or the sales budget that needs to be achieved to hit the targets. No matter what role you work in or […]
Smashing open the “thinking” box – Lessons in Leadership from the 2018 VRCLP Leadership Summit
Leadership. Many of us aspire to be a leader. We spend our working life trying to climb the ladder to get to a leadership position. Some of us get there and end up deciding leadership is not for us. Others shy away from being appointed to a leadership role – to having that official leadership […]