Category Archives: Recruitment

Well that’s the number if you believe some new research that was released by Galaxy Research on Thursday last week to support the deployment of a new Chandler Macleod tool called CMyPeople. That and over 50% of us “falling” into our current careers. Actually the research and tool are quite important. The research was releasedContinue reading “2.2 million working Australians are unhappy”

I received an email yesterday from the folks at NotchUp that they had released some new features. We’re happy to announce the launch of our newest feature, the NotchUp resume/profile importer. With it, you can have a NotchUp profile created for you in just seconds – just upload your resume or LinkedIn profile, and we’llContinue reading “NotchUp up’s their features”

More and more people are starting to talk not about if, but when, people will start losing their jobs due to the down turn in the economies. Certainly more so in the US but I am seeing signs in other western countries as well, including Australia. Over the last few months I have written twiceContinue reading “Losing your job”

Two big areas of focus within HR departments is the attraction of good talent and then the retention of that talent. Some are now saying these function should be separated but that is a topic for another post. Global HR consulting firm Mercer is running an online survey designed to collect information on what HRContinue reading “Attraction & retention of staff”

Today I was listening to the 2WebCrew where Cameron Reilly mentioned a new Australian startup PloyMe. PloyMe is a job board with a difference. It is aimed at casual workers where job seekers once registered only apply for shifts via SMS. Shifts are sent to a job seekers phone and the first to reply “wins”Continue reading “New job service for casual workers”

One of the problems of being immersed within an industry is you can quite often see things, the talk/blog about them a long time before real business actually takes these things on board. Yesterday Stephen Collins shot me a note with a link to a post by Shel Israel on the Red Couch about HiringContinue reading “Hiring 2.0 is catching on”

This morning I wasted invested in reviewing a great site providing advice candidates. The advice. what NOT to do within the hiring process. The site Not Hired. To quote their site:- We are a group of HR monkeys and hiring managers who have worked with some of the largest search engines, vertical portals, and social-networkingContinue reading “Hiring failures”