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.
Is a degree the be all and end all? Not when everyone else has one too. And what could you benefit from nurturing graduates in your workplace?
Nick Gabrielidis blogs about using the new financial year to consider 2011-12 HR requirements.
“Finding and sourcing the best talent is causing a major constraint on the expansion plans of many organisations, and workforce planning has never been more important as a result.”
Recruiting any position within an organisation is important; you have to ensure that they can do the job and that they will fit with the rest of the staff. Recruiting sales people is a particular challenge for most organisations and very costly if they hire the wrong person.
Graduates are waiting the longest time to find full-time employment since 1994, a new report from Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) has found.
The length of the recruitment process and the personality of the person conducting the interview have been found to be the biggest influences over job-seekers opinions of a potential employer.
Part of the study of using LinkedIn (LinkedInology) is being a responsible user. Being such, I feel compelled to clear up some misinformation on the proper usage of LinkedIn.
It’s common knowledge that the dual economy developing within pockets of the Australian employment sector is putting additional pressure on SMEs to compete for staff.
Scott Wesley of Chandler Macleod Recruitment blogs about demographic profiling and social media as part of the recruitment process.
“Think laterally for a moment – we already have the technologies that can predict how potential employees will behave in a given work environment. So why can’t we map the workplace behaviours of key performers back to their use of the digital environment?”
