Recruitment & Selection Articles

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It has been estimated by the Society of HRM, Saratoga Institute that the cost of a bad hire is 1-2 times the employee’s annual salary. There is the cost of any termination payments, cost of hiring including advertising and recruiters costs, the administration time and...

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...