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11 Ways To Find The Best Candidates On Seek

With over 14 million visits a month, seek.com.au is Australia’s leading job site, offering recruiters and hiring managers a huge pool of potential candidates. But these huge numbers come at a price. Most employers advertising on Seek will have experienced the tsunami of applications that follow. It’s like a firehose of unqualified, unsuitable and ineligible […]

Don’t be a Yahoo! Candidates lie.

The recent departure from Yahoo of CEO Scott Thompson for claiming a bogus degree on his CV highlights the need for background checks on candidates at every level. Thompson was accused of lying on his CV by declaring he had a Computer Science degree from Stonehill College near Boston. An opponent of Thompson’s, Daniel Loeb, […]

15 Online Tools Making Recruitment Faster And Cheaper For Any Business

very business needs new staff at some point. But recruiting them can be expensive or painful. Both if you’re unlucky. There’s good news for employers: The internet is ‘democratising’ the recruitment process. Tools that were once a trade secret of expensive recruitment agencies are now available to anyone online – at a low cost, and […]

Become a thought leader to attract the best talent

Imagine you had a choice of working for two almost identical companies. Both do similar work. They’re offering comparable money. But there’s a critical difference: one is led by a figure regarded as a top expert in your field. The other by a faceless senior manager: someone competent and respected, but essentially unknown.

Do you need a second opinion after seeing a recruitment specialist?

Many recruiters call themselves ‘specialists’, but if you peel away the layers, they often turn out to be doing nothing different to the more generalist recruiters. So, what is your so-called ‘specialist’ recruiter really offering you and are you getting real value for money? Generalist vs specialist A generalist recruiter is someone who works on […]

Using LinkedIn for Recruitment: 5 Tips for Beginners

inkedIn has been a key tool in the recruiter’s toolbox for many years now. But more and more, employers are wising up to the benefits themselves. Using LinkedIn for recruitment is no longer reserved for the experts or Boolean Geeks. Here are just a few simple ways that regular ol’ employers can start sourcing great […]

You have two ears and one mouth for a reason

As a manager of some pretty large recruitment teams over the years, as part of my quality assurance process, from time to time I would sit in on interviews just to ensure that my recruiters were conducting their meetings with candidates in the most professional manner. The most common ‘trouble spot’ I came across was […]

Hire a graduate: 3 ways to inject new blood to your business

Graduates are a breed unto their own and hiring a talented graduate is a great way to inject new blood into your business. These new recruits will often offer a fresh perspective and provide your organization with a much needed boost. The graduates of today (the Gen Y or millennial grads as they are also […]

Are you a control freak or can you let go?

If you haven’t already read “Rework” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, I cannot recommend it enough. A friend of mine leant it to me recently and I have to say I thought it was genius. Whilst our blog is not a forum for me to review books, many of the authors’ ideas really […]

Candidate attraction: finding the needle in a haystack

The ability to retain top talent is one of the keys to any business’ success. And yet, while companies with a proven staff retention record certainly have a competitive advantage, candidate attraction still remains one of the greatest challenges faced by businesses today. Losing top performers will always have a significant impact on your team’s […]

Facebook wants to know everything about you. Should employers as well?

We recently heard from Facebook’s Head of Recruitment – Richard Cho – at a social media conference. His dream is that in the near future, candidates will be recruited for who they are as people, not just a history of job titles. Sounds like a simple aspiration: We’re obviously all more than a combination of […]

Don’t settle for ‘bums on seats’: Wait for the right person to hire

It’s typically at this time of the year that business owners and managers start to think about new hires for  the coming year. But as a hiring manager have you ever really stopped to think just how important it is to find the best people for your business? Not just someone who happens to be […]

Reference checks and social media: On shaky ground?

With all the social media sites available today, it is still critical to verbally validate a potential employee’s past experience with a previous employer. There’s no denying, however, that a lot can be deduced about someone from a bit of quick searching in the public domain. Facebook, Twitter, and personal blogs can show the entire […]

5 common mistakes of busy hiring managers

Hiring a new employee is one of the most critical processes for any business manager. For many businesses it’s literally a make or break decision:  the right candidate could be the difference between the success of your business or a drop in your standards of quality or service. It’s a big responsibility, and one you […]

7 Benefits to Attract Top Talent to your Smaller Business

If you’re a small business owner you’re in good company.  Recent (US) data from the Small Business Administration shows some impressive results. Small businesses: Account for 99.7% of all firms that hire new employees Employ over half of all employees in the private sector Contribute 44% of total private sector payroll Obtain 13 times more […]

A Struggle to Find Skilled Staff is Not a Skills Shortage

75% of Australian SMEs and large businesses are struggling to find skilled staff, according to survey results released this week. An immediate reaction to these figures might be to blame the Great Australian Skills Shortage.  Plenty of research has shown a skills shortage does exist, in certain sectors. But results like this don’t prove it. […]

5 Warning Signs to Save Time When Screening Resumes

The resume provides a first snapshot of your potential new employee. It won’t tell you if someone’s right for the job. But it’s a good way to screen the applicants that clearly aren’t. As a hiring manager, use this to your advantage to save time in the initial screening. Look out for warning signs rather […]