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PROACTIVE SOURCING : Cast your net into the talent pool to attract the skills your business needs.
What if your organisation could increase employee satisfaction for a fraction of the cost? Savvy HR leaders are providing workers with opportunities to learn new skills, and reaping the rewards of their investment. 
You may think you know what's going on with your team. But survey data is far better than anecdotal observation. 
The key is having the right mix of talented, hard working people. So start-ups need to be flexible and creative when it comes to hiring. 
No matter how confident you are that you’ve selected the right candidate to join your business, sometimes your offer isn’t accepted. I’ve seen excellent candidates reject offers for excellent roles, and it can cost an employer a lot of time and effort to find another suitable person, not to mention the disappointment of being rejected. 
8 years after its introduction – and a few name changes – Corporate Social Media can no longer be considered as an innovation. We have clearly hit the third wave of its implementation in Corporate environments 
Companies that aren’t using social media are missing out on an easy and free way to communicate with employees year round. 
Change is ever-present in today’s world of recruitment. First, it was the paperless office, then it was Internet jobs boards, and, just as we got used to that, along came social recruitment. And, while many of us are still catching our breath with social media recruitment, along comes the next big transformational event in recruiting: Mobile Recruitment. Well-designed referral programs not only identify top prospects that are not in a job-search mode but they also require employees to assess candidates for skills and fit and to sell them on the company and the job. Given that social media is on the tip of everyone’s tongue, it might come as a surprise to discover that less than half of the largest Australian companies are using the most popular social channels (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube) to their full potential. 
Want to take care of your business? Take care of yourself. The candidate experience encompasses every interaction with a candidate from first contact to ultimately hire. From your employment messaging to your apply process to how you handle candidate feedback in the interview process, all these areas affect how a candidate views and engages with your company. 
Transparency is a word that we all hear about. Declining trust within the organization and increased public scrutiny, coupled with the major bullhorn of social media, has to drive companies to become more transparent. This transparency should be visible to not only investors, but the employees as well. |
Instead of trying to simplistically deduce which source is better or worse than the next and making declarations about the health of job boards, social media or anything else, maybe it is time to think about using all of the available data about how people come to see our jobs and use it to our full advantage? 
People with disabilities are the least likely to be included in untapped workforce strategies by recruiters, despite comprising 20% of the population, and forming the largest section of ‘untapped’ human resources. 
Ongoing education is a core part of every great business. The investment is small, but the return can be a game changer. 
Advertising is much more about attraction, through increasing brand awareness. Advertising takes time and focus. It operates on different rhythms than the direct approach. It is friendlier with a relaxed pace. There are four main pillars of success for any online community: Commitment Strategy Content Members
Gold prospecting company Newcrest Mining has been named Australia’s most attractive employer for 2012, pipping the ABC and Virgin Australia to take out the top spot 
Is there a gap between your recruiting practices and your culture? In today’s economy, even organizations of modest scope can expect many willing and qualified applicants for every open position. 
If you are serious about recruiting the best talent, take this as an opportunity to build a recruiting culture throughout the entire organization — up to and including the CEO. Don’t make the mistake of throwing all of your time and money into new-fangled technologies, building talent communities, or costly social media campaigns unless you have the basic principles of recruiting drilled into both your recruiting staff and your hiring executives. Some organizations will excite you. They'll stimulate your success and growth. Others will be stressful. They may lead you to quit before you've accomplished much or learned what you hoped to. 
Number crunching has become a part of our daily routines. Measuring what we do, how quickly we do it and the quality of what we do has become a norm in most companies and departments. Employer Branding won’t be able to swim against the stream… so how can we measure the work within the field? 
New research has indicated that measuring the value of individual performance remains the million dollar question for HR professionals. 
...“as many as two-in-five employees feel they hardly ever know what’s going on at their organization. … Furthermore, a majority are in the know just some of the time.” Winston Churchill famously said, "We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us." The places we work and the ways we think are inextricably linked: a few changes to one inform the other. |
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