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 […]
Solving the Onboarding Puzzle
How you bring a new staff member into your business will impact how quickly they become productive and how long they stay. In fact a study by Texas Instruments found “employees who went through an improved onboarding program were fully productive two months faster than employees in a traditional program.” Running them through your induction […]
Are you promoting the wrong people?
Working for a business that provides opportunity for career progression is appealing. Many people seek the opportunity for career progression and development and are keen to be able to grow with a business. It’s something I get asked a lot when interviewing; people want to know what does career progression and development look like at […]
It’s not about Bums on Seats
I have worked in different positions within the Recruitment Industry for the past 20 years. Family and friends know that I work in the industry but even after all this time, most probably don’t really understand what it is that I do every day. They would know that I talk to people all day, conduct […]
What to do when you disagree with being “unsuccessful”
We have all received a “thanks for your application however on this occasion unfortunately you have been unsuccessful” email, letter or phone call at some stage during our career. No doubt you felt disappointed getting this news. I remember receiving them myself at various stages during my career and I know I always felt a […]
The #1 MUST do before you apply for a job
Applying for a job takes time if you are going to do it properly. You can of course hit the apply now button and shoot off the generic resume that is attached to your online job board profile in a matter of seconds. However if you are genuinely interested in applying for a particular job […]
In a candidate short market, your recruitment process matters more than ever
If you have tried to recruit in recent months in the Ballarat region chances are you will have found that top talent is hard to find. With the unemployment rate sitting at 4.1% for the region; being the lowest it has been for many years, and with many industries experiencing skilled candidate shortages, the competition […]