Let East Coast HR Help You Find The Right Employment Opportunities For You
When searching for employment it’s important that you use all your available options and this includes the assistance of employment agencies. Did you know that new employment opportunities are presented to employment agencies almost everyday? Most of which are not publicly advertised. Many people fail to use the professional services of employment agencies to find job employment opportunities, which is a real travesty. Don’t follow the crowd, make the most of your resources to find employment opportunities available on the Sunshine Coast. Many companies use work recruitment agencies to...
Read MoreRecruitment market caps shrinking fast
Some of the biggest global players in the recruitment industry have lost close to or more than half their value over the past year, with Hudson and Randstad-Vedior suffering the worst of the share price dives among the international stocks. Hudson’s stock on the NASDAQ has fallen 62.9% over the past year, down to $US5.38 per share this morning ($A8.10). When Randstad and Vedior began discussions about a possible takeover in November 2007, they had market caps of €3.7 billion and €2.7 billion respectively. Today, the merged entity has a share price of €14.19 ($A29) on the Euronext...
Read MoreThe importance of getting recruitment right!
Some of the biggest and most constant challenges that plague organisations are people related. These challenges are not always obvious, but become more visible the higher you go up the management chain. Organisations usually put a raft of strategies in place to deal with the business symptoms of such people-related problems, and sometimes these wonderfully flawed strategies are created by the people who created the problems in the first place. Such strategies often leave HR out of the equation, and fail to address the cause of the problem – the wrong people in the wrong jobs.The more I talk...
Read MoreAnother Year’s Come and Gone!
Well the silly season has come and gone for another year, thank goodness. January is now upon us and rather than reflecting on the year that was, it’s time to consolidate those New Year’s resolutions, to plan for the future in both our personal and professional lives. Staffing might be one of the areas you plan to focus on this year. After all, good staff are an organisation’s greatest asset. You might have recently lost a key member of staff, either initiated by them or prompted by you and it’s certainly not unusual at this time of the year when people are freshly back from their...
Read MoreOne third of employers struggle with retention
Retention is a problem for almost one-third of Australian employers, recent research has found, and retention problems most commonly manifest into serious productivity problems, a decrease in company morale and damage to business relationships… With the employment market continuing to tighten, employers are working harder than ever to attract, engage and retain the talent they have, according to Simon Moylan, national practice leader of assessment & development for Hudson, which conducted the research. “The visible cost of turnover, including recruitment, hiring, orientation and...
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