Category Archives: Recruitment

Building Candidate Pipelines Reduces Costs without Sacrificing Quality

The primary goal of recruitment is to implement a set of procedures that will quickly identify top talent for vacant positions.

It is important to recognize that the recruitment effort is not a static process.

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Talent Management Boosts Employee Retention

Talent management strategies are designed to stimulate employee retention in small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). The rationale is that employees who are provided the opportunity for professional development and career growth are much more likely to build long-term loyalty to the firm.  Employee retention is particularly important to ensure that your company retains those workers who possess important knowledge, skills, and abilities (also referred to KSAs or simply as human capital). Those companies that fail to develop an effective talent management strategy will likely experience significant employee recidivism, many times to competitor firms. This can then lead to operational inefficiencies resulting in loss of competitive advantage.

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How Do You Retain Good Quality Employees?

When you have invested a lot of time, effort and money in getting the right recruit, training them to perfection and getting them to perform exactly as needed, the last thing you want is for them to quit. Of course there will be occasions when employees do leave, but wouldn’t it be great if you had the systems and culture in place to retain the really high quality ones for the long term?

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How Do You Recruit the Right People?

When your business grows, there comes a point in time when you need to employ someone because the job is too much for you on your own. You may have taken on someone already, maybe two but then you need to take on more people – another person to man the shop front, or deliver the goods or sell the products. The easy thing to do is just do the same as before, a postcard in the window, or a notice in the local paper – saying help needed apply within!

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Demand for Workers is Heating Up

Remember that time before the GFC, when you were having trouble finding  good people to fill your vacancies? Well those times are set to be repeated with recent survey data from the both the ANZ and NAB reporting big spikes in job ads, particularly in newspapers.

Australia is showing signs of resuming the its upward growth curve and while that means business growth it also means increased labour demand.

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Working with staff in your Small Business

How to Staff a Small Business

Many small businesses want to put on staff, but struggle with the “HOW”.

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