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Overcoming The Skills Shortage

In a tight employment market, what strategies can you employ to overcome the shortage of skilled staff for your workplace?

Bye, Bye Boomers: Planning For The Inevitable Free to view

Your leaders are leaving soon and you may have gaps within the ranks, both in qualified people and the necessary competencies. While this is potentially alarming information, now is not the time to panic.


Make Yours The Greenest Pasture - Retaining Your Top Talent

Employee turnover can cost companies up to 40% of their annual profit. The financial impact of losing a significant number of high performing and high potential employees can be exponentially higher.


Using Short-Term Executives To Handle Problems Cost Effectively

A growing pool of experienced ‘interim executives' is available to help businesses overcome temporary problems, supplement senior management, or help to push a new project through to completion.


Passive Recruiting

Limiting your candidate pool to people who are currently actively looking for a new job can actually increase your overall recruitment costs and can put you far behind your competition in hiring top performers, especially if you are replacing a key executive or an open position requiring a unique skill set. As a result, an increasing number of companies are making long-term commitments to include passive recruiting as an integral part of their overall recruiting strategy.


Turning Your Organisation Into A Talent Magnet

Businesses working to hire people with skill sets that are in high demand and short supply need to do more than just post jobs online and cold call potential candidates at their competitors. They must turn their organisations into "talent magnets" - so that highly desired talent continuously seeks employment opportunities at their organisation, because word is out that people love working for the company.


Using Your Internal Workplace Brand To Attract And Retain Free to view

There is evidence showing that the labour market is changing globally, and the impact on the future workplace will be considerable. There's no reason why a workplace shouldn't be considered a brand to help attract and retain staff. But it's easier said than done.


Why You Need To Keep Your Mature Employees In The Business

It is absolutely critical that you find innovative ways of utilising the tremendous source of experienced, loyal, productive human capital you have residing in your business.


Making Mature Age Employment Work

As employers wake up and start competing for mature age workers' talents, the only barrier to making the most of our ageing workforce will be the limitations we impose on ourselves.


Plan Now Or Pay Later - Proactive 'Talent War' Tips

In this talent shortage age, it's important to include the following four considerations in your planning if you intend to continue to compete effectively for top talent.


Talent Quest

Is Australia doing everything it can to attract and retain increasingly elusive ‘golden-collar workers'?


Don't Underestimate The Value Of Your Older Employees

One of the greatest challenges facing employers today is how best to prepare for the implications of an ageing workforce, that will have serious ramifications for their business over the next ten years.


6 Strategies To Help Your Business Survive The Skills Shortage

Retaining good staff is not all about salary. Employers are going to have to get smarter about the total employment package they are offering their staff, if they want to attract and retain the best people.


Attraction And Retention Audit

The lowest unemployment rate since 1976 is a headache for many business owners. The shortage of skilled workers has become the single biggest HR risk. It is a complex problem, however there are a few guidelines we suggest every business follow.


Keeping Contractors Happy

As more traditional work structures disappear, employers face the challenge of managing an external workforce.


Keep Your Gold Watches - We Want To Work Free to view

As the first wave of baby boomers turn 60 this year, the overwhelming message to employers is that members of this huge generation do not want a traditional retirement.


Stepping To Success With The Interview: ‘Winning In The War For Talent’

War - of a sort - is uppermost in the minds of many right now: the war, that is, for talent.


Expatriate Employment Issues – A Warning For Employers

Employers in many industries are faced with a daunting workplace when you consider skilled labour shortages, according to some reports.


Boom Or Bust - Solutions To Address The Ageing Workforce Crisis

As the impact of the ageing workforce takes hold, business leaders are seeking sustainable age management solutions to attract and retain mature employees in a rapidly shrinking labour market. This article explores ways to help business boom against the backdrop of the most radical demographic shift in history.


How To Prepare Your Business In The Face Of Increasing Skills Shortages

Recruitment is a very serious investment for any business and employing the right staff should always be considered a key business priority.


Unleashing People Power - Winning The Talent War

It fascinates me that many company owners, directors and senior executives claim their “people are their biggest asset” yet their behaviour bears no reflection of that statement. So why do they even bother to make the statement in the first place?


Employing Expatriates Strengthens Businesses

Employing people from other countries can often give a company a useful edge, bringing new ideas, techniques and approaches into the business, or accessing specialist skills not available in Australia.


Apprenticeships - A Much Needed Solution To The Skills Crisis

You would have had to have had your head firmly embedded in the sand for the past twelve months if you are unaware that Australia is facing a critical skills shortage.


Give People A Reason To Stay - Providing Direction Free to view

Due to the shortage of talent there is a need to start taking action now.


Stop The Escape: Attracting And Retaining Staff

CEOs and business brace themselves as the low unemployment rate and increased competition for staff hit home.


Unleashing The Potential Of The Ageing Workforce Free to view

Every year an increasing proportion of workers retire. How are you going to keep your older workers?


Contracting - The Best Of Both Worlds

Contracting can best be described as a “de facto” relationship that many modern couples share. The ultimate try before you buy! Rather than jumping into the long-term commitment of marriage you can live together to see if it’s got that magic spark for both parties. It’s also a double-edged sword. As there is no commitment either can pull out of the arrangement.


Management Contracting

Highly experienced managers are difficult to find or attract to long term assignments - contracting is a solution.


Is Your Business Capable Of Attracting And Keeping Today's Graduates

Gain valuable information from the perspective of graduates.