Recruitment

face2face pays it forward and gets the job done
Expert Advice
It's said that one-third of small-to-medium-sized businesses fail in their first year of operation and half fail in their second year. So when Canberra business face2face Recruitment turned 15 this year, owner Kate Prior and her 24 staff popped the cork on the champagne. Kate knew she was daring when she opened the business. It meant she had to quit...
Bucking the trends: Finding Effective People will boost your business
Local Leaders
What’s the secret to running one of Canberra’s top recruitment companies? If you ask Ian Lindgren, who has owned recruitment agency Effective People alongside wife Maria since 2015, the answer may surprise you. While other recruitment businesses rely on generous commission structures and measure success by the number of candidates placed in roles, for the Lindgrens, it’s all about people...
Digital disruption could be good for older workers
Recruitment
There is no 'business as usual' as far as digital disruption is concerned, but one unique way organisations can prepare for such uncertainty is to employ more older workers. While younger digital natives are often thought of as an organisation's best response to the rapid pace of change, a workforce with older experienced employees can be more prepared to face...
‘Sedate’ pay rises of sub-three per cent ahead for most
Recruitment
Sixty-five per cent of employers will give their staff a pay rise of up to 3% in their next review, but 11% will not increase salaries at all. That's according to our 2017 Hays Salary Guide, released this month, which also shows that 19% of employers intend to award a salary increase of between 3 and 6%. Just 5% of...
Skills in demand for the Fourth Industrial Revolution – are you job-ready?
Recruitment
The digital and technological divide between jobseekers' skills and employers' requirements has never been greater than it is today as we approach the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Of the new jobs added to our April to June Hays Quarterly Report of skills in demand, almost all require the knowledge and capabilities needed to utilise new emerging technologies and digital trends, from...
Challenging work and career development will keep your best employees
Recruitment
A competitive salary and impressive work-life balance sound ideal but they aren't enough to keep your best employees. According to our recent survey of 1,516 people, 61 per cent look for another job in order to secure more challenging or exciting work. This was followed closely by a lack of career development (60 per cent). The opportunity to improve salary...
Avoid a fail grade: integrated temporary employees make powerful brand advocates
Recruitment
The rapid rise in the use of temporary and contract assignments has seen a blended workforce become the norm in many industries and sectors. But the success or failure of this arrangement often comes down to how well temporary and contract employees are integrated into a team. The very nature of this form of employment means that temporary and contract...
Recruitment trends for 2017
Recruitment
What will be the key features of Canberra's recruitment market in 2017? Firstly, with 2016's Territory and Federal elections behind us and no major distractions ahead, competition for top talent will heighten. Add to this a number of high profile infrastructure projects and unemployment below three and a half percent and you have all the ingredients for a very competitive...
Is temping and contracting the ‘new normal’?
Recruitment
Twenty-three per cent of organisations now employ temporary and contract staff on a regular ongoing basis, up from 16 percent in 2009. Estimations vary but the consensus is that around 30 to 40 per cent of the workforce is now a temporary, contractor or freelancer. While non-permanent employees are nothing new, the recent rapid rise in this form of working...
Australia’s most wanted: knowledge workers in growing demand
Recruitment
The demand for knowledge workers is increasing as employers recruit these highly-skilled professionals to add immediate value and adapt to the rapidly changing and digitising world of work. Of the new jobs added to the latest Hays Quarterly Report of skills in demand (for October to December 2016), almost all require knowledge workers. Knowledge workers are candidates who require a...
Skills Index shows Australia failing to meet demand
Recruitment
The 2016 Hays Global Skills Index has been released, highlighting Australia's talent mismatch between the skills unemployed workers possess and those employers want to hire. The report, published in collaboration with Oxford Economics, shows that despite an existing pool of labour, employers in high-skill industries such as IT, accounting, healthcare, life sciences and professional services can still find it difficult...
Counter offers fail to entice
Recruitment
One of your top performers asks to see you and hands you their resignation letter - what do you do? Many employers are tempted to make a counter offer in the hopes it will retain the employee, but this is rarely a successful strategy. Even if a resigning employee does accept your counter offer, their original motivation for looking for...
Voluntary staff turnover rises – what’s making them go?
Recruitment
Voluntary staff turnover has risen in 29% of organisations over the past year. That's one of the many findings in our recently released Hays Salary Guide, which shows that just 14% of the 2,752 organisations surveyed, representing over 2.6 million employees, reported decreased staff turnover during the past 12 months. The remaining 57% said it stayed the same. The increasing...
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