Posts Tagged ‘reference checking’
At last, reference checking gets serious
Earlier this week the Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) released its Reference Checking & Information Sharing Protocol stating “To help banks employ only competent and ethical financial advisers, the banking industry has today announced a new, improved way of hiring financial advisers”. ABA Executive Director – Retail Policy; Diane Tate was quoted in the accompanying press release: “… the banking…
Read MoreHire then fire: Who’s slipping through your background checking net?
A couple of months ago I ranted I call BS on employer groups: Get better rather than want things to be easier about the whining of Australian employer groups, specifically the Ai Group and Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, and their respective calls to make it easier to fire workers. I suggested that these…
Read MoreCEO recruitment is broken and no solution in sight
Continuing my search to understand what underlies the decision making mistakes made by boards of large companies, I turned to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), the preeminent educational body for public, private, and not-for-profit company directors in Australia. I collected a copy of the AICD Professional Development Handbook (July 2014 to June 2015)…
Read MoreThe Sobering Facts About Employee Fraud
One of the topics I frequently return to is the risk assessment aspect of a recruiter’s job, or the ‘defensive’ recruitment skills, such as background and reference checking, that are a necessary part of doing a complete job as a ecruiter. Unfortunately, there is still an undesirable tendency for these skills to be deemed an…
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