Tag: Recruitment

To attract the right employees, businesses must focus on what they have to offer to future staff.

Local job opportunities are decreasing despite a booming Asia Pacific (APAC) employment market, which has enjoyed a 23 percent jump in job opportunities over the last year.

New research has found more than a quarter of local bosses are using social networking to screen job candidates.

New job-seeking software is revolutionising the recruitment industry, with recruiters and businesses able to initialise job applications via SMS.

Finding the right talent when you need it is one of the biggest headaches for any manager. There are countless recruiters ready to help out but this takes time and money and unless you strike the right agency the result can be a frustrating collection of vaguely qualified CVs taken from the agency database. Fortunately, these days there are other options.

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.

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.

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.