I recently wrote a blog for employers explaining why hiring temps or contractors is a beneficial business strategy. But that’s just one side of the equation. What about the worker? Here are some of the benefits for job seekers. Some people choose temp work as a lifestyle (ICT contractors for example) going from project to
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The Secret to Happy Employees!
How happy are you with your job? On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate yourself? I hear it daily from our recruitment business that the pre-Christmas period is a time when candidates are active. Forget the New Year resolutions! We also see it from the data we get from our clients via Engagement
How to secure top talent in this hot market!
Since coming back from Christmas holidays in January 2017, there has been a noticeable difference in a number of roles we are recruiting for! It’s a wonderful position to be in and reminds me of the good old days of recruitment pre-GFC in 2009! There is certainly a lot more economic confidence and whilst there
Contracts to stop job-hopping
A recurring comment that I hear in my job as an HR Consultant is around employees moving from one job to another and not showing any loyalty. Job-hopping. It seems that gone are the days of a job for life and beginning your career as a 17-year old cadet before retiring with the gold watch
Reduce humans to numbers at your peril
Accountability is a funny thing, isn’t it? Every leader wants it in their business and we expect it of our colleagues (even if some of us are a little light on it ourselves). And in a world where fake news is now a thing, we certainly expect it of the media, of brands and of
Culture In The Workplace
What is it? How important is it? How do you measure it? Organisational culture is a hot topic. Culture is a word that has been used for decades, we use it to describe our workplace, a good culture is high on employees wish lists, boards and regulators are highlighting that good culture will increase customer
The Big Opportunity For HR
HR Practitioners are often in a bind. Tasked with developing an organisation’s greatest assets, they are the first to have budgets slashed, cop the blame for any ‘people’ problems, and rarely get a serious voice at the Leader’s table. But what if that could all change? First lets look at what the function of HR really
Three Steps to Retaining Great Staff
A few years ago at the height of the mining boom, most people in the Recruitment and HR Consulting industry were banging on about there being a ‘War for Talent’, a phrase coined by consulting firm McKinsey in 1997. We were all, of course, referring to the drastic shortage of skilled, relevant ‘talent’ in the
Fostering An Organisational Learning Culture
Organisations are seen to “learn” through their individual members – employees acquiring new information, or employees joining the organisation bringing with them new knowledge. The challenge for Learning and Development (L&D) teams is to therefore understand (a) how to efficiently capture the new knowledge being brought into the organisation, (b) how to foster a high