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When you first entered the employment market what was your key motivation? Maybe you were working towards bulking out your wardrobe or looking to purchase your very first set of wheels. Five years down the track you may have found...

Ever think to yourself I’d love to have them work for me but I can’t afford them? Just because a candidate has higher salary expectations than your budget can afford doesn’t mean they’re off limits. With this in mind you...

I often hear people say that their replacement is hopeless and slow to learn. Then someone reminds them that they were once exactly like them until they had mastered the fundamentals of their job. Proud of their achievements and unwilling...

When an employer picks up the phone to offer a candidate a job, they generally anticipate an excited reaction. Yet this isn’t how it always plays out. Some candidates hesitate to accept the job offer and ask for time to...

Recent conversations with job seekers has highlighted to me that many organisations are taking an extraordinary length of time to work through the recruitment process. To be specific, they are taking months. And that’s just to organise the first interview!...

The silly season is upon us and for many workplaces and industries that means scrambling to tie off loose ends before the doors close for a long Christmas and New Year break. It generally means too that jobseekers have fewer...

Tattoos were always something associated with bikies and tough people (probably ex-cons!), blokes on the constructions site and those honouring their ‘mums’. They were never seen as appealing. In fact, if you had a tattoo you were probably not to...

Most human resource activities revolve around employee retention. Why? It’s simple. Employees are the bread and butter of all organisations. Without them they simply wouldn’t function. And with companies investing heavily in training and development, employees are valuable company assets....

Many do not realise this, but the moment a potential employer contacts you by phone, you’re being interviewed. Your resume was impressive enough to get them to dial your number, but delivering a spiel over the phone that is enticing...