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Interest in part-time employment is dramatically increasing, as the cost of living escalates and full-time work becomes more difficult to find.

LinkedIn data has found a fifth of hiring managers have employed a candidate due to their volunteer work experience, leading the site to add a “Volunteer Experience & Causes” field to users’ profiles.

Information management is meant to simplify processes and create a user-friendly and efficient way for staff to work together to contribute to the overall success of a company. To be successful, collaboration and communication must take centre stage.

Business owners need to focus more on their motivation skills, now that employees are rating the ability to inspire as the most important quality in a leader.

With the new financial year now well underway, a number of important HR and employment relations changes that came into effect on 1 July should be on your radar.

Corporate Cash Passports, the prepaid travel cards distributed by Access Prepaid, are gaining popularity with businesses in Australia and across the world thanks to their ability to save time, money and security hassles.

Some people believe the only way to grow is to learn from your mistakes, but why not make it easier on yourself and also learn from the mistakes of others?

Australian employers can expect greater demand for flexibility, as new mobile technology creates an opportunity to work anywhere, at anytime.

Bad managers will mean the loss of talented employees, a reduction in productivity and the tarnishing of staff morale if businesses don’t clamp down on the growing culture of “horrible bosses.”

Australian workers have ranked knowledge and skills sharing low on the priority list for a happy workplace.

Even though spring is just days away now, many employers are struggling to get their workers back to their pre-winter levels of engagement and motivation. So, here’s 10 tips to pull your employees from their cold weather funk and back to their productive best.

Designed to assist SMBs tired of recruiting themselves but who are unable to afford the cost of agencies, pay-per-use platform RecruitLoop has just launched in Australia.

Many business owners remain unsure of significant amendments made to the Sex Discrimination Act, which include broader implications around breastfeeding at work and that harassment can be committed by new technologies like mobiles and social media.

Though many family business owners want to keep it all in the family, many are worried about their children’s ability to take charge of the business.

Employers are being warned not to underestimate the importance of checking a potential employee’s references during the recruitment process, with many failing to find out when candidates misrepresent themselves.

More than half of all Australian employees claim to have been bullied by their managers at some time or another, with 24 percent keen to see their boss fired for the behaviour.

Jobseekers in the finance industry are placing more emphasis on long-term career development than on monetary gain, suggesting the job market isn’t enjoying the same stability it did last year.

Top performing employees in the finance and accounting industries are more difficult to find now than at the same time last year, contributing to greater concern amongst employers about attracting and retaining top performing employees.

Over half of the Australian workforce would happily work past the official retirement age, suggesting employers should begin to focus on attracting and retaining mature-age workers.

Employment Law experts are advising business owners ensure they understand redundancy requirements under the Fair Work Act, given the new wave of economic uncertainty gripping much of the world.