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Is the length of your recruitment process turning off top talent?
In my previous blog post: Treating your recruitment process as a marketing process, I discussed ...
Is the length of your recruitment process turning off top talent?
In my previous blog post: Treating your recruitment process as a marketing process, I discussed how HR professionals should wear their ‘marketing hat’ when strategising around attracting high-quality talent into their organisation. In addition to the ‘marketing-related’ activities of the recruitment lifecycle, it is vital for HR leaders to continuously analyse the recruitment process itself [...]
What does Anzac Day mean to Australia in 2012?
April 25 marks a very special day on the Australian calendar. For one day of the year we gather at the war memorials in our cities and towns to remember the sacrifice the Anzacs made during the First World War. But with 25 per cent of Australia’s population born outside of Australia, has the connection [...]
Treating your recruitment process as a marketing process
Attracting talent to your organisation can be a challenge, especially in today’s marketplace. Furthermore, monetary benefits alone, such as a high salary are unlikely to attract and retain top performers in your organisation for longer than 12 months. When developing strategies to acquire quality human capital, it is important to identify and actively market the [...]
The benefits of cloud computing
What are the immediate benefits of a cloud platform? This is a question I hear coming from prospects, customers and discussed within the IT world a lot lately. So I thought I would put together a list of what I believe to be the most prominent benefits of software as a service, delivered online: 1. [...]
What’s the real ROI from wellness programs?
I’ve just read a very interesting article on Employee Benefit News about wellness and health management in the work place: The biggest challenge facing HR professionals looking to devote resources to wellness initiatives in their organizations is responding to the question, “What’s the ROI?” It seems intuitive that if you create a healthier workforce, your [...]
Gamification: making work fun
I just finished reading a great article in HC Mag about a new concept called Gamification. Gamification is the new process that is encouraging games at work by harnessing the enthusiasm people have for virtual gaming by implementing the same themes into the workplace. Ben Thompson, CEO Power2Motivate, an organisation specialising in solutions for employee [...]
The magic of doing one thing at a time
Here is a summary of a great article I read this week: (The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time) Why is it that between 25 and 50 per cent of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work? Are you constantly juggling many tasks at once, wondering why you just cant seem [...]
Contract vs Permanent; which is preferred?
It appears that the ongoing debate between employers, unions and workers, continues; permanent versus contract or casual employment. Which is preferred by both employers and employees? According to Coles HR director Jenny Bryant, by transitioning the majority of it’s workforce from casual to permanent, the supermarket has halved its turnover in the past three years. [...]
Interview with Affirm CEO Bryan Ericson about the various motivations that drive electronic onboarding, costs and some of the key challenges
Why did Affirm Software choose to develop an onboarding solution? The onboarding process for many companies is still heavily paper based, slow and inefficient, prone to errors, and incredibly slow and frustrating for the new employee writing the same information over and over again. With very few secure electronic onboarding solutions in the marketplace, we [...]
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