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Twitter flutter... tweet... Facebook... booked face... link me link up LinkedIn...
It seems there is a new world... social networking... and there are now a plethora of articles on the internet about this phenomena and how it will change our world... and I am sure they are true..
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| Key recruitment issues for retailers |
As a franchisor who sells retail recruitment franchises Frontline Recruitment Group is in a unique position to comment on key issues for recruitment in the retail field. In this article, Peter Davis, Managing Director, Frontline Recruitment Group, provides an insight into recruitment in the retail sector.
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| Who does what around here? |
Starting out right with new employees requires some good planning and documentation. Most employers mean well, but all too often the formal Job Descriptions quickly evaporate after hiring.
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| How can you be sure you are hiring the best employees? |
By using an interview technique that draws on both behavioural and performance based methodologies you will have a better chance of securing the right person for your organisation.
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| Nine steps towards a Corporate Wellness Program |
If you decide to take the plunge and implement a Corporate Wellness Program that will help you attract and retain high performing employees, what is the next step? The key to success in wellness is to take a strategic approach. Here are nine steps that will take the stress out of setting up a Corporate Wellness program in your company.
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| War for talent |
The battle of Waterloo took place on 18th June 1815. This Battle marked the end of 25 years of the Napoleonic Wars. It saw Napoleon Bonaparte with 74,000 troops oppose the Duke of Wellington with 67,000 troops on a hillside south of Brussels in Belgium. These two armies walked to war?.
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| How to hook the talent you need |
The skills shortage is starting to bite and the latest National Salary Survey from the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) shows that average staff turnover has increased to 12.6%, up from 11.5% in the previous study and 9.9% the year before that and that annual salaries at large companies increased by 4.6% in 2006/07.
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| What are your employees New Year's resolutions |
The New Year is stretching out ahead of us, but the recruitment storyline isn't changing much. In other words, experts predict it will be just as hard -- if not harder -- to attract and retain the best talent in 2008 as it was in 2007.
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| Recruiting through the ages |
There are four generations that are participating in the workforce now: the almost retired World War II generation, the getting ready to retire Baby Boomers, the mainstream Gen-Xers and the emerging Gen-Yers.
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| Why brand matters in recruitment marketing |
Much has been written about the fact Australia?s job market is at near capacity, and the various issues that it raises in terms of attracting, recruiting, and retaining the talent needed to achieve your organisational goals. Focusing on your Employer Brand is a key strategy to ensure your organisation can meet the challenges of the current candidate short market.
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| Poaching staff may leave you swimming with the sharks |
Poaching, also know as headhunting, is the practice of recruiting people from other companies by offering inducements. Poaching costs businesses good staff, drives up employment costs and causes bitter disputes between competitors.
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| Bridging the skills gap |
Employers and recruiters need to work together to uncover appropriately skilled workers in a shrinking workforce. Skill gaps are where existing employees lack the required qualifications, experience and/or specialised skills to meet the firm?s skill needs for an occupation.
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| Attracting and keeping healthy employees |
Rapidly aging, and shrinking, workforces around the industrialised world are forcing employers to deal with a new phenomenon ? a looming massive shortage of skilled, productive workers for the next decade or more.
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| Turning off staff turnover |
Engender loyalty by engaging your employees in the company. According to the recent Australian Institute of Management's (AIM) National Salary Survey 2007, there is further negative fallout from the ongoing skills shortage, with voluntary staff turnover rates at 12.6 per cent for 2006/2007.
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