With Christmas just around the corner, life tends to start getting pretty hectic. For many industries, it’s like the world is going to end and everything needs to done, finalised and complete before we stop for the Christmas break. Customers want to get orders placed before you stop accepting to ensure delivery of products and […]
Movember – Make a difference in your workplace
“The state of men’s health is in crisis. Men experience worse longer-term health than women and die on average six years earlier. Prostate cancer rates will double in the next 15 years. Testicular cancer rates have already doubled in the last 50. Three quarters of suicides are men. Poor mental health leads to half a […]
Is it healthy to create a family atmosphere in the workplace?
Having worked primarily in big business in my early career, I was surprised when I started working with SME’s to find how many describe their culture as being like a ‘family’. The ‘family culture’ obviously has different meanings in each workplace, but the consistent desired values I have seen are: everyone has a personal connection […]
Surviving job rejection as an internal candidate
Applying for a job and being rejected is hard enough at the best of times but when you are an internal applicant and miss out on the job it’s not just hard, it becomes a whole different ball game. However, there can be light at the end of the tunnel if you handle the experience […]
The Position Description – your roadmap to recruitment success
How important and valuable is a Position Description when it comes to recruiting? Many businesses under estimate the importance and value of the position description and in many small to medium organisations, they don’t even exist. When it comes to recruiting, the naïve recruiter or hiring manager thinks that their recruitment process centres around running […]
5 Knee-jerk reactions to avoid when recruiting in haste
An employee has resigned and now it is panic stations. You’ve been given a 2 week or maybe even a 4 week notice period but you know from past experience that running a recruitment process takes time. Time you really don’t have. Your team are freaking out; they’re concerned about who is going to carry […]
Salary Benchmarking: Why you should crunch the numbers
Overpaying. Underpaying. How does your business compare when it comes to compensating your employees? If you have ever had to work out a salary package for a new employee or have had to evaluate a pay rise request or negotiate to retain one of your best employees, you’ll know that it can be pretty tricky […]
Help! I’m being pigeon-holed – Employers can’t see my value
Job hunting can be frustrating at the best of times. You keep putting yourself out there with application after application but you keep getting knock back after knock back. You know you have great skills to offer, you know you have transferable skills to bring to a new employer, a new industry and a new […]
Making the most of Professional Development
The real value in attending a professional development session comes from what you do after the session. How you hold on to the motivation, inspiration and learnings from the professional development and apply them when you get back in to the workplace is the key to achieving real value from any professional development. In last […]
Professional Development; the real value is not in attending
August has been a very big month of professional development for me. I’m overdosed with professional development and I’m feeling pumped! But truth be told, up until last week I was also feeling overwhelmed. In the month of August I’ve spent two action packed days at the annual RCSA (Recruitment and Consulting Association) Conference in […]