Recruiting

Let me guess – you haven’t spent most of your life planning for a career in recruitment! Not a lot of people do and yet people who work in recruitment, particularly when recruiting for corporate or commercial businesses, don’t want to leave because there are few career options that are as fast-paced or exciting. ​ … Read more

Steven Lane has had a uniquely interesting career path that involves everything from landscaping in high school to working at his university’s Career Centre to eliminating missile systems in Bulgaria and Iraq. His life has followed a fascinating trajectory that ultimately led him to Australia, where he got a job with an international recruitment firm here in Brisbane. Steven worked with the … Read more

One of the world’s greatest businessmen, Warren Buffett, offers this career advice to his students: “Ask how you will want to feel when you are 80 and then reverse engineer your life.” ​ When it comes to career building, some people like to whimsically bounce around from job to job. If you aspire to be … Read more

Being multi-skilled is a beautiful thing. If you’re in a senior role in your company, chances are you’re across a variety of skills: accounting, hiring, leadership, the list goes on. However, there comes a time when micro-managing tasks isn’t beneficial to you or your business. Think about this: you could spend 3 hours trying to … Read more

Last month on the blog we talked about the importance of focusing on creating an asset out of your team as a whole rather than focusing too much on individuals. Employees will come and go, but by developing a pipeline of staff members who are constantly ready to progress forward as gaps form, you’ll find … Read more

It can be so difficult to find star employees with a solid combination of talent, effort and work ethic. Once your recruiter has helped you hire the perfect pick, it’s important to have strategies in place to retain your strongest team members. ​ By retaining your best people, your hiring costs will go down and … Read more

Job searching can be an arduous marathon ending in a loss of hope after months without success. If you are looking for a way to stand out among your competitors and land great roles in a more efficient manner, consider making a video cover letter. ​ As we discussed last month, video cover letters are a … Read more

We are in 2018. It is likely that your news delivery is through your Facebook timeline, you probably have not used snail mail beyond bills for over ten years, and even your grandmother knows how to Facetime. ​ Employers are increasingly requesting video cover letters from their applicants, and for good reason. Put yourself in … Read more

Tackling those tricky interview questions can be the difference between landing a job or not… Pre-interview preparation is essential but navigating around questions you either don’t have answers for or would rather not elaborate on is the most common stress point for any candidate. It is probably right to say that you have been asked … Read more

There are a number of ways you can network with key industry professionals while growing your own personal brand.  One effective channel to help you become recognised as an industry thought leader, is to publish your own blog. Following are a few ideas on how you can go about publishing your own blog content. ​ Running … Read more