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Accurately assessing soft skills: A huge opportunity for recruiters
Soft skills, behavioural competencies, transferable skills, personal attributes, employability skills, capabilities; no matter what you might know them as, these non-technical skills are important at work and becoming more so. Deloitte Access Economics explores this topic in their recently released report, Soft skills* for business success (It’s a very readable and interesting report and I recommend you…
Read MoreThe gender pay gap explained: Women are less likely to negotiate
Recently I read through the excellent Richard Lloyd Sydney Accounting Salary Report – 2017. I have seen many salary surveys over the years and most are a boring copy of each other with very little new to say about the data that has been gathered. The pedestrian reporting of salary differentials across skill levels, although…
Read MoreBreast cancer: You can help me eradicate this devastating disease
The Mother’s Day Classic (MDC) walk or run for breast cancer research was established in 1998 – it started from modest beginnings as a walk in the park and has grown into a major national community event. From the inaugural events in Melbourne and Sydney which attracted approximately 3,200 people, the event has now become…
Read MoreWhy do employers continually fail at onboarding?
Allegis Group have just released an excellent report Explore what sets high-performing recruitment organisations apart, a paper that offers insights from nearly 12,000 employers and candidates across various industries and functions from North America and the EMEA and APAC regions, revealing benchmarks that set high-performing recruitment organisations apart. There are a number of very useful data points on recruitment…
Read MoreACT Government voluntarily opts out of quality recruitment outcomes by Simon Cox
This week I turn InSight over to HorizonOne co-founder and Director, Simon Cox. I’ve done this to highlight an issue that many of you may not be aware of, but it’s a practise that I believe to be both very short-sighted and counter-productive. It’s a practise that, as an industry, we need to resist with…
Read MoreDeligiannis returns Hays Australia to star status in Hays worldwide
In January 2015, when I was writing about the Hays global results from the previous financial year, featuring a stellar performance from Hays UK & Ireland and a resources-downturn induced slump for Hays Australia, I editorialised as follows: In summary, it’s easy to conclude that the move of Nigel Heap, from running the Hays Asia Pacific business,…
Read MoreHays 2015/16 results: Germany surges, UK and Asia Pacific marking time
Any smart recruitment agency owner or investor in the recruitment industry keeps an ye on what’s happening at Hays. As a London-listed specialist recruitment company Hays has operations in 33 countries across three divisions (UK & Ireland, Continental Europe & Rest of the World, Asia Pacific) and has consistently been one of the most profitable…
Read MoreHiring a bad leader compounds like high interest on a bad debt
This week Forbes contributor Dev Ittycheria, published a column Avoiding Costly Recruiting Mistakes: The Importance Of High Standards. It’s excellent and I recommend you read it. “The reality is that no one wants to work for a bozo, and employees can instantly assess if their boss is a bozo. The team who works for a bad boss will…
Read MoreOptimism: Our industry’s greatest attribute and greatest weakness
Things are rocking right now. It’s clear from the conversations I’ve had with many people in the recruitment industry since the beginning of the year that the market is moving at Usain Bolt-like speed. Agencies are reporting record levels of job registrations and the subsequent placements are leading to healthy bottom line results. The other…
Read MoreIs recruitment in Australia still dominated by bias, racism and sexism?
In the run up to International Women’s Day this past Tuesday, I couldn’t help but notice a couple of news articles that were a sobering reminder that many people responsible for recruitment are still operating from a mindset that remains from last century. The first was reported in industry news service, ShortList: SEEK data reveals…
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