The Recruitment and Consulting Services Association (RCSA), the peak body for the private employment services sector, has released a proposal for an Employment Services Industry Code (ESIC). The ESIC sets out to eradicate unfair practices with a single national framework for the regulation of the employment services and on-hire marketplace. Steve Granland, CEO, RCSA said […]
The way we do business today is almost unrecognisable compared to how we worked only a few years ago. The emergences of digital technologies are changing the way we work. From invoicing customers on your mobile phone to Skype calls with clients based thousands of kilometres away, business life as we know it has changed […]
For all of the well-known entrepreneurs, there are many who take too great a risk, only to fade into insignificance, never to be heard of again.
Australia’s standing in the OECD rankings for employment of mature age workers has moved up, yet it still remains far behind New Zealand’s strong results.
Australia Post will be cutting approximately 2,000 jobs as a result of cumulative losses surpassing $1.5 billion in the last 5 years.
13 out the 19 industries covered recorded a rise in employment numbers, with Arts and Recreational Services taking a big lead.
While the ICT sector has grown and there has been a 5 per cent rise in the number of ICT professionals, the number of ICT graduates has actually dropped from the early 2000s.
Only 15 per cent of respondents claimed they currently had secure jobs, while over a third of nurse and midwifery graduates said they were jobless.
With the amount of time and investment that goes into finding a good hire, employers may want to keep talent getting propositioned with new opportunities.
When it comes to operational success, it’s important to keep in mind that your entire workforce is only as strong as your weakest link.
