Hiring: Employee retention: 5 ways to hire people who stay
Employee retention: 5 ways to hire people who stay When managers are asked to define the most challenging part of their job, the answer, regardless of the industry, is often, “Finding and keeping good people.” Recruit well and both the company and your team will reap rewards; but get it wrong and there are costs…
Leadership: 4 keys to a great leadership strategy
“90 per cent of my job is to fail.” Speaking at an event recently, that’s how the head of a digital company’s Australian division described her job. She was tasked with taking risks on an ongoing basis, with the understanding that only a handful of her initiatives would work, and that this was acceptable. Only…
Resumes & cover letters: How to write a cover letter that gets you noticed
A good cover letter is your key to landing an interview The cover letter is often the first element of your job application that your prospective employer will read, often ahead of your CV. For that reason, it’s vital that you get it right – and that means knowing how to write a cover letter…
New world of work: 3 kinds of emerging HR tech ideas
Three kinds of emerging HR tech ideas: which one will be the most disruptive? As business leaders, we’re used to making data-driven decisions in every facet of our organisations, except, perhaps, for our people. While the world of work is changing rapidly, there are still aspects where organisations generally do things the way they’ve always…
Workforce change: Three tips for effectively managing outplacement services
If your organisation only provides career transition support in the form of outplacement services for employees once they have been made redundant, you and your employees are missing out. When it comes to outplacement services, there’s no such thing as too early. Your employees will need all the help they can get from career coaching…
Resumes & cover letters: Functional resume template
A functional resume emphasises your skills and abilities, or ‘functional areas’, rather than chronological employment history and is especially useful when you are changing your career focus, when you have had gaps in your employment, or when you want to highlight your skills and achievements from older jobs, or from volunteer or extracurricular experience. The…
Job Interviews: What to wear to a job interview
Nothing says ‘Hire me’ like a polished interview outfit – think classic, tasteful and tailored, and you can’t go wrong. For men that often means a suit and tie, and for women a skirt/dress pants and blazer or dress. But dressing for an interview is not always so simple, and putting together a killer interview…
Leadership: Experiential learning approach: building better leaders
Building better leaders with an experiential learning approach You may have heard the saying: “meetings are places where good ideas go to die”. I’d add that in the leadership development space, death by a thousand PowerPoint slides is a prevalent crime. There is however a growing desire to revisit the way many organisations approach leadership…