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Employees switching jobs to get ahead 11:00am Wednesday 11 August 2010 - Human Capital Magazine Many employees are not prepared to negotiate their salary and instead believe it is necessary to switch jobs for a pay increase, according to new research released today by specialist financial recruitment firm, Robert Half. |
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Two words of vital concern to all employers: Vicarious Liability 11:00am Wednesday 11 August 2010 - Human Capital Magazine Many employers are unaware they may be legally responsible for their employee's misconduct if they fail to take "reasonable steps" to address those issues, writes Harriet Stacey |
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Freelance democracy - the freedom of freelancing 11:00am Wednesday 11 August 2010 - Human Capital Magazine Brad Anderson believes the future of work lies in freelancing. He weighs some of the pros and cons |
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Legal experts: Can the new 'Transfer of Business' provisions work for employers? 11:00am Wednesday 11 August 2010 - Human Capital Magazine Janine Smith outlines the key differences in the 'transfer of business provisions' under Fair Work |
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No means no 11:00am Wednesday 11 August 2010 - Human Capital Magazine In an age of equality why does sexual harassment still occur? Human Capital looks at the cultures and behaviours that foster it and what can be done to prevent it happening in your workplace |
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Guest Post: Job Boards Are Alive And Kicking 4:04am Wednesday 11 August 2010 - Destination Talent To many observers, job boards are passé; relics of a bygone era. Carey Eaton, CIO of SEEK, Australia’s largest job board, thinks otherwise. Here’s his take on the current challenges and future opportunities for job boards. During the last year job boards around the world have seen the toughest operating circumstances in the history of [...] |
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Contractor management company goes into liquidation  3:52pm Tuesday 10 August 2010 - Shortlist News Sydney-based contractor management and immigration advisory company, Payfair, has gone into liquidation, leaving up to 40 contractors on 457 visas sponsored through its labour agreement facing an uncertain future. |
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How to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace 1:05pm Tuesday 10 August 2010 - HR Daily Sexual harassment is "incredibly widespread" in the Australian workforce - but the majority of cases are preventable, says Learning Seat general manager Tim Legge. |
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Rio Tinto signs deal with LinkedIn Recruiter, plus more 12:37pm Tuesday 10 August 2010 - Shortlist News Rio Tinto signs deal with LinkedIn Recruiter.... Employees prefer to change jobs than negotiate salary.... Drake looking for best job in the world.... GenY prefers bonus share schemes.... Best Employer accreditation opens..... Jobs.com.au emerges again. |
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Rio Tinto signs deal with LinkedIn Recruiter; plus more 12:37pm Tuesday 10 August 2010 - Shortlist News Rio Tinto signs deal with LinkedIn Recruiter.... Employees prefer to change jobs than negotiate salary: Robert Half.... Drake looking for "the ultimate job".... Gen Ys prefer bonus share schemes.... Hewitt Best Employer accreditation opens..... Jobs.com.au emerges again. |
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Michael Page releases salary and employment forecast 12:36pm Tuesday 10 August 2010 - Capital Jobs Michael Page has just released their 2010 Salary and Employment Forecast report. The employment market has strengthened during the first half of 2010 with increased hiring activity across all white collar professional occupation groups. our annual employment survey, which this year includes responses from over 800 senior managers from Australia’s corporate sector, reveals 33% of [...] |
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Ten Career Options to Consider 9:45am Tuesday 10 August 2010 - Six Figures Success in today’s world of work requires appropriate attitudes and thorough awareness of your employment environment. To these two, you need to add a self-honest but not too modest assessment of your skills, expertise (i.e. knowledge), interpersonal abilities and what factors make up job satisfaction for the uniqueness of you. As you journey through life [...] |
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Chart Focus: Job Vacancies in Australia 3:13am Tuesday 10 August 2010 - Destination Talent Let’s have a look at the major indices monitoring the health of the job market. The ANZ Job Index According to the ANZ Job series, total job advertisement grew by 1.3% in July, to be 36.1% higher than they were last July. The economy added 171,685 jobs on average per week. Surprisingly, print ads did [...] |
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Seth’s done it again 11:53pm Monday 09 August 2010 - LatinOcean With “Linchpin”, Seth Godin has hit the mark as far as conveying a message that resonates with employers, employees, the self-employed, the entrepreneur: work is art in as much as it is a process filled with generosity provided by individuals that create, connect, produce; and ultimately has an effect on others. Perhaps the book’s punch [...] |
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The Perfect Employee ... The Perfect Employer? 6:42pm Monday 09 August 2010 - Ross Clennett [...] |
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The Perfect Employee ... The Perfect Employer?* 6:42pm Monday 09 August 2010 - Ross Clennett [...] |
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IT Video Resume - Killa Appz 5:35pm Monday 09 August 2010 - Recruitment Directory Dave Berzack, a freelance web developer, created this music video about web development. He raps along to the paper planes track about his skills to pay the bills. Certainly stands out amongst a pile of CVs. Theres not much else I can add to this... Just watch the video! |
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Pre-GFC margins returning: recruitment finance specialist 4:59pm Monday 09 August 2010 - Shortlist News The outlook for the Australian recruitment sector is "rosy", says Michael Bode, a tax specialist with Deloitte's dedicated recruitment industry group, and many companies are again posting gross margins of the kind seen prior to the GFC. |
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Online job ads dip slightly in July: Advantage Job Index 1:42pm Monday 09 August 2010 - Shortlist News Online job advertising dipped 1.3% in July, according to the Advantage Job Index, registering only the second monthly fall in job advertising this year. Despite the slight dip, online job ads are still up 24% over the past 12 months. |
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Large-scale people integration requires "pace over perfection" 1:05pm Monday 09 August 2010 - HR Daily Creating a new business culture following a merger and acquisition requires "pace over perfection" and a willingness to make some mistakes, says Bupa Australia's director of HR, Penny Lovett. |
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Recruitment agencies must comply with NES 11:05am Monday 09 August 2010 - Recruiter Daily Recruitment agency managers who aren't aware of National Employment Standards - such as maximum weekly working hours and the obligation to consider employees' requests for flexible work arrangements - risk facing costly claims. Here's what you need to know about the NES. |
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Peerlo, Launch Recruitment make new appointments 11:05am Monday 09 August 2010 - Recruiter Daily Peerlo and Launch Recruitment have made five new hires between them recently. |
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OWASP Top 10 and your Recruitment Website - Part 1 9:30am Monday 09 August 2010 - Recruitment Directory OWASP has recently updated their list of the top 10 most prevalent security vulnerabilities. Since this list covers all major aspects of computer security it is interesting to check what are the issues that are relevant to a typical recruitment website or job board and (exercising the 80/20 rule) what are the key questions we should ask ourselves (or our IT/security staff) to be sure that we don't miss anything critical. |
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A third of candidates happy to be scrutinised online: Hays 12:07am Sunday 08 August 2010 - Capital Jobs More than a third of all job seekers accept that employers are entitled to check out their social media profiles when assessing them for a role, according to a new poll from Hays. However, while 34% of the 900 candidates surveyed expected employers to check their social media profile and found this acceptable, a larger [...] |
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Election not slowing buoyant hiring demand 5:21pm Friday 06 August 2010 - Shortlist News The election hasn't put a dent in hiring demand, say recruitment executives, and in fact the staffing market has rapidly recovered from the blip in confidence in late May and early June. |
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Origin in the market for contingent workforce manager; CML central database up and running; plus more 2:17pm Friday 06 August 2010 - Shortlist News Origin in the market for contingent workforce manager.... CML central database up and running.... QPL testing UK recruitment consultant job market.... Programmed plans staffing expansion.... SKILLED pondering OMS sale? |
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Blog post: What managers can learn from comedians when onboarding 1:05pm Friday 06 August 2010 - HR Daily Onboarding, like comedy, is about bridging the gap between the unknown and the familiar. The sooner the crowd likes, relates and trusts you, the sooner everyone can relax and have a good time... |
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Blog post: Why baby boomers won't quit working 1:05pm Friday 06 August 2010 - HR Daily Compared with 20 years ago, there is a lot more identity-making and meaning-making that has been attached to work... |
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Blog post: "Job descriptions" are a waste of paper 11:05am Friday 06 August 2010 - Recruiter Daily Job descriptions may well describe a job, but they certainly won't describe the ideal person for the role, nor will they describe the lucky person who eventually wins the job. The reason for this is that any hiring manager, or recruiter for that matter, worth their salt, will hire on attitude first, and teach skills later... |
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Blog post: Three simple ways to get more done 11:05am Friday 06 August 2010 - Recruiter Daily By starting your day on your most important project, instead of being driven by what's in your inbox, you'll feel more in control of your work with a greater sense of achievement... |
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Data Applications and Infrastructure at LinkedIn 2:16am Friday 06 August 2010 - Recruitment Directory At a recent presentation by Jay Kreps of LinkedIn at the Hadoop Sumit 2010. Jay describes how LinkedIn crunches 120 billion relationships per day and blends large scale data computation with high volume, low latency site serving. |
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A third of candidates accept social media checks: Hays; Recruitment a money-spinner for LinkedIn; plus more 5:41pm Thursday 05 August 2010 - Shortlist News A third of candidates happy to be scrutinised online: Hays.... Recruitment the biggest money-spinner for LinkedIn: CEO.... Talent2, Alexander Mann et al recognised in RPO Baker's Dozen.... HR, IR staff in demand, post-Fair Work: IPA.... Australian salary increases on par with Asia during GFC: Robert Half. |
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Is your partner stopping you from having the job or career you want? 2:18pm Thursday 05 August 2010 - Six Figures There are many things that stop of us from pursuing the job or career that we really want, including fear of failure, fear of success, loss of income and personal status. One of the greatest blockers to actually going out there and having a satisfying career can be our “significant others”, of which partners hold [...] |
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DEEWR names ICT contracting panel 1:26pm Thursday 05 August 2010 - Shortlist News The federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations has announced the results of its "non-exclusive" ICT contracting panel selection process. |
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Employers have the right to ensure flexible work requests are genuine 1:05pm Thursday 05 August 2010 - HR Daily Employers that face dubious flexible work requests can ask workers for evidence of authenticity, and should flag their "discretionary right" to do so in their policies, says Mills Oakley lawyer Luke Connolly. |
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Announcement: Lift your engagement with the help of Australia's 'best employers' 1:05pm Thursday 05 August 2010 - HR Daily What could you learn from employers with outstanding engagement scores? This is your chance to participate in a free mentoring program, facilitated by Australia's 'best employers'. |
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Skills shortage reports are overblown, says trainer 11:05am Thursday 05 August 2010 - Recruiter Daily Reports of imminent skills shortages are premature, as many skills go unused in the ICT industry, a consultant says. Also in this report: recent salary surveys and market research covering the resources, banking, accounting and finance sectors. |
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Your Mortgage Finance Survey - take part and win! 11:00am Thursday 05 August 2010 - Human Capital Magazine Your Mortgage magazine wants to know what personal finance information you need. Answer our short survey and you could WIN 1 of 5 Accor Hotels' Gift Cards worth $200 each! Hurry, survey closes Monday 30 August. |
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HR best practice: Measure your progress against industry leaders 11:00am Thursday 05 August 2010 - Human Capital Magazine HR best practice: Measure your progress against industry leaders |
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Living on the edge – of a deadline 9:00am Thursday 05 August 2010 - Lifestyle Careers I have my own style of time management: wait til the pressure is really on, then sweat and work frantically to meet a deadline. I love it, I thrive on it. I advise others against this yet I cannot help myself. It’s probably not the method recommended by experts, psychologists, or those people who turn up [...] |
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