Recruitment & Selection Articles

Recruitment Interviewing Tips
When hiring a new employee, you naturally want the best person for the role. The most common recruitment process is when you interview a candidate to determine if they match your role. In a candidate-poor job market, you need to realise that while you are conducting...

How To Improve Your Recruitment Results Through Social Media
The New Year is always a busy time for job seekers and businesses looking to fill roles for the coming year. But the world of job search has changed significantly in recent years. In the past businesses would list a vacancy on SEEK or another major job board, look at...

Effective Interview Questioning Techniques
Structured Recruitment Interviews Many small business owners struggle with running job interviews for vacancies with their business. They “wing it” and end up with bad hires and headaches down the track. To improve the quality of your recruitment interviews, we...

Job Ads: Staying on the Right Side of the Law
A Brisbane lawyer recently advertised for a male solicitor to join their firm. This has brought the issue of discriminatory and misleading job ads back into the limelight and goes to show that even lawyers can get human resources wrong! What do you need to know to...

Where to Advertise a Job Vacancy
You have a vacant position in your small business. How do you go about letting people know you have a vacancy? Advertising can be separated into free and paid options. In most situations, you may choose to use a mixture of both to attract the right candidates to your...

How To Hire Great Customer Service Employees
The most important people in any business are not the CEO and management team, but the frontline customer service staff. These often lowly paid workers are the ones who create the memorable moments with your customers. Ideally, you want them to create positive...

How To Hire Your First Employee
Many small businesses grow rapidly, to the point where they need to hire an extra pair of hands either on a part-time or full time basis. It is an exciting time for your business and sometimes the pressure of extra work can make you leap in before you have everything...

Recruitment Tips: 10 Places to Find Great Employee Candidates
While turnover tends to reduce in the weeks leading up to Christmas, when the New Year comes, itchy feet develop for many employees. So if you are hit with a sudden vacancy in the new year and you don’t have any employees that you can promote or transfer into the...
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