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Stop talking about work/life balance and market what matters: Adidas  5:25pm Wednesday 26 May 2010 - Shortlist News Recruiters still have a lot to learn from marketers about attracting and persuading an audience, says Steve Fogarty, recruiting captain for Adidas North America. |
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Sales and profits down for Programmed workforce, demand improving 2:29pm Wednesday 26 May 2010 - Shortlist News Programmed Maintenance Services' workforce division has reported sales down 15% to $366.8 million for the year to March. |
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Newsagents wrestle with new work laws 2:25pm Wednesday 26 May 2010 - Human Resources Leader Newsagents employing delivery staff are “the latest casualty” of the Federal Government’s new workplace agenda, Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) has said. |
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Aussie employment rights not up to scratch 2:22pm Wednesday 26 May 2010 - Human Resources Leader Australia is failing to reach international benchmark standards in business leadership and workplace culture, according to the President of the Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER). |
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Aussie workers’ pay up three per cent 2:20pm Wednesday 26 May 2010 - Human Resources Leader Australian employees have seen a three per cent increase in their pay packages since last March, according to data from Australian Bureau of Statistics. |
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Show workers their place in your vision - before they buy into another's 1:05pm Wednesday 26 May 2010 - HR Daily Employees who understand the connection between their role and their organisation's goals are more satisfied - and more productive - than those that lack a big-picture perspective, according to a new report. |
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Meet the new CEO of the RCSA – Steve Granland 9:34am Wednesday 26 May 2010 - Capital Jobs As most of you would know, the long serving CEO of the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association (Australia & New Zealand), Julie Mills, resigned earlier this year and after a thorough search, the RCSA Board recently announced the appointment of Steve Granland to the CEO’s role. I managed to meet [...] |
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Take greater responsibility for your career 9:05am Wednesday 26 May 2010 - Recruiter Daily Before you think about leaving your unsatisfying job, consider whether your boss understands what you want from it, says coach Sophie Robertson. |
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US nursing employers using talent pooling; CML to trial central candidate database; plus more 9:00am Wednesday 26 May 2010 - Shortlist News US nursing employers use talent pooling to address shortages: Avature.... CareersMultiList to launch trial of central candidate database.... PageUp wins new business with Energy Australia.... Jobs growth down slightly, salaries set to rise: Michael Page.... Modest salary increases for SA accounting staff: AME.... One third of workers approved of GFC leadership: Robert Walters.... IPA wins training award.... Recruitmenow expands to HR. |
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Cut the fat. If you still use IE 6, it's time to upgrade 10:56pm Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Recruitment Directory I hate supporting old internet browsers. Listen up fellow webmasters, job boards and solution providers. If you spend hours designing your site to work perfectly in IE 6, you’re taking away any incentive from slow adopters to drop their old browser. Take a stand and insist your users upgrade to the latest browser versions. |
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NZ labour hire executives plead guilty to illegal payments; Recruitment company fined over death 3:53pm Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Shortlist News New Zealand labour hire executives plead guilty to illegal payments.... Modest fine for Perth recruitment company over worker's death. |
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Meet the new CEO of the RCSA (Aus & NZ): Steve Granland 3:21pm Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Ross Clennett [...] |
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Big players feature heavily in Queensland local government tender 2:00pm Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Shortlist News The wide-ranging Queensland local government recruitment panel has been announced. |
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Twitter Bans Third-Party Ads 12:03pm Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Michael Specht I noticed an interesting development over night, Twitter is looking to ban all third-part ad networks from injecting ads into users Twitter streams. From the Twitter blog: As our primary concern is the long-term health and value of the network, we have and will continue to forgo near-term revenue opportunities in the service of carefully metering the [...] |
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Avoid a disconnect between graduate recruitment and development 11:05am Tuesday 25 May 2010 - HR Daily Graduate programs that separate recruitment from development are at risk of over promising and under delivering, says David Cvetkovski, national manager of strategy and delivery at Fusion Graduate Management Solutions. |
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Job board reliance is "flawed strategy" 11:05am Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Recruiter Daily Relying on job boards to source candidates is a "flawed strategy" and likely to lead to dissatisfied clients and hiring managers, says InsideJob principal consultant Martin Warren, in the Job Board Report 2010. |
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International exposure 11:00am Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Human Capital Magazine Although 457 visa applications are down to their lowest level in four years, employers in certain sectors are still scrambling for international talent. Iain Hopkins explores the options |
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Don't forget the due diligence 11:00am Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Human Capital Magazine M&As present special challenges to organisations with significant foreign workforces. A professional visa audit as part of the due diligence process may be the answer, writes Jane Goddard and Dr David Crawford |
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Things you should know before committing to life as an independent contractor 11:00am Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Human Capital Magazine While the idea of being your own boss is always appealing, Matthew Franceschini writes that it's important to weigh the pros and cons before taking the leap into independent contractor work |
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Adding value to the induction process with eLearning 11:00am Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Human Capital Magazine Simon Hann writes that the induction process can be so much more than just a procedure for passing on essential information to new starters |
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Professional development experts: Succession planning 11:00am Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Human Capital Magazine Confused about succession planning? Bruce Highfield provides a useful guide to best practice |
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The Forum: My heart will go on (just not with you) 11:00am Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Human Capital Magazine Human Capital talks to five experts about their top tips for recapturing the hearts and minds of disengaged and worn out workers |
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Talent International acquires Tennyson Group 10:15am Tuesday 25 May 2010 - Shortlist News Talent International has bought out South Australian IT recruitment specialist the Tennyson Group. |
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Steady stream of start-ups replace job board closures: report 6:19pm Monday 24 May 2010 - Shortlist News Some 12% of Australian job boards shut down in 2009, but approximately twice as many new ones opened up, according to the annual Australian Job Board Report from recruitment blog Destination Talent. |
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Higher pay rises, more job security among small employers: Australian Institute of Management 4:17pm Monday 24 May 2010 - Shortlist News Candidates may be better off taking jobs with small companies, which gave out higher pay increases in the past 12 months than large employers, and were less likely to retrench staff, according to new data from the annual Australian Institute of Management national salary survey. |
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NZ Public Service Workforce Data 1:46pm Monday 24 May 2010 - Recruitment Directory Governments across the world are starting to make public sector information available to increase their openness and transparency by publishing raw data online. By having publicly available data sets, it stimulates innovation and leads to economic benefits by allowing researchers to perform their own analysis and developers to create useful applications. |
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Employee Engagement and Social Media 1:36pm Monday 24 May 2010 - Michael Specht Over the last 2 weeks I have been giving a series of presentations looking at how social media (and Enterprise 2.0) can drive employee engagement. While the slides are available on slideshare for download I wanted to give a bit of context. As part of preparing the presentation I came across a presentation by Susan Scrupski [...] |
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Take steps now to re-engage and retain high-value employees 11:05am Monday 24 May 2010 - HR Daily Despite foregoing pay rises and perks throughout the downturn, most employees now require very little from their employers to become re-engaged at work, says retention expert Lisa Halloran. |
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Employers need new mindset to consider "teachable fit" 11:05am Monday 24 May 2010 - Recruiter Daily As the skills shortage worsens and the "right" person for a particular job becomes harder to find, recruiters will need to expand their searches to encompass candidates with "teachable fit", according to Manpower managing director, Lincoln Crawley. |
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New appointments at Hattonneale, TRG, Ability People 11:05am Monday 24 May 2010 - Recruiter Daily Tim Haren, Ben Neary and John Alexandrou have recently changed roles in the recruitment industry. |
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The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Facebook. 10:06am Monday 24 May 2010 - Lifestyle Careers At last count, Facebook had over 350 million users, and this number is continuing to grow. It overtook MySpace as the Number One social networking website on the planet last year and is just behind Google when it comes to online traffic. Put your hand up if you aren’t using Facebook as part of your marketing [...] |
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Announcement: Applications for the 2010 AHRI National Awards close Friday, 28 May 5:05pm Friday 21 May 2010 - HR Daily Australia's premier HR and people management awards program recognises outstanding individuals and organisations that demonstrate excellence in HR and business practice. Apply for one or more awards today. |
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Freelancing will rival traditional employment: Wheeler; Ex-Hudson exec joins Walker Andersen; plus more 2:40pm Friday 21 May 2010 - Shortlist News Freelancing, crowd-sourcing will rival traditional employment: Kevin Wheeler.... Ex-Hudson executive to run new Walker Andersen division.... New state manager for Total Recruitment in South Australia.... Networking trumps job boards, recruiters: Right Management.... Non-recruitment delivering strong returns for Ross Human Directions.... PVS Workfind pledges to increase its indigenous workforce. |
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Blog post: Do you measure your manager's effectiveness at hiring? 1:05pm Friday 21 May 2010 - HR Daily For companies ramping up their hiring efforts, it makes sense to track which hiring managers "get it", and identify those that don't... |
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Blog post: Why Abbott's plan for Govt graduate recruitment is completely flawed and what we should do instead. 1:05pm Friday 21 May 2010 - HR Daily If the goal is cost reduction across the APS, Tony Abbott's plan [to cut] APS graduate recruitment is completely flawed... |
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Blog post: The four big mistakes in job ads 11:05am Friday 21 May 2010 - Recruiter Daily It makes good sense to follow this model to dramatically increase your recruitment hit rate - not to mention your return on investment... |
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Post: Is it time for a shift in attitude? 11:05am Friday 21 May 2010 - Recruiter Daily Breaking into the market here is tougher than anywhere else... It's not a meritocracy, it's a mateocracy! |
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Payrises in your future with growing skills shortage? 11:03am Friday 21 May 2010 - SMStheJOB One minute we’re in the midst of the now famously-named GFC (Global Financial Crisis for those of you who have just peered out from under a rock), and everyone’s panicking about job queues, retrenchments, pay cuts and unemployment figures, and the next, we’re hearing about the skills shortag [...] |
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Work At Home Mums: Success is a Work In Progress 9:00am Friday 21 May 2010 - Lifestyle Careers The long-term projected outcomes of our efforts often reflect our definition of success. That is, we deem that we will be successful once we have achieved the ‘big picture’ goals. We want to go from the dream to the realisation without giving much credit to the middle act. While work at home mums are busy multi-tasking [...] |
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New Skilled Occupation List 11:53pm Thursday 20 May 2010 - Capital Jobs The Federal Government has released a new Skilled Occupation List (SOL) designed to deliver highly skilled migrants and crackdown on people seeking permanent residency through low-value education courses. The list was developed by the independent body Skills Australia and contains 181 highly valued occupations, to be updated annually. The new [...] |
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