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Working Mothers, We need more of them in the Workforce!!

Working Mothers, We need more of them in the Workforce!!

Almost three-quarters of Australian businesses said that working mothers bring valuable skills and expertise to the workplace, while 89% believed that companies that do not employ women returning from maternity leave are missing out, according to research from global workplace provider Regus (2014). In this post, we look at working mothers and how businesses today can attract and retain these special recruits. In our opinion we need talented and skilful women working in organ

Be Smart - Assess Emotional Intelligence!

Be Smart - Assess Emotional Intelligence!

While Interview techniques can vary significantly between employers based on wants and needs. Largely interviews focus on traditional aspects of intelligence as the main body of conversation for candidate evaluation – as reflected through the focus on qualifications and the like. Whilst these traditional measures are highly effective to evaluating suitability for a role there is another aspect of employee potential that is far less utilised. That is, an assessment of Emotiona

Social Media – time to engage your employees

Social Media – time to engage your employees

While one of the main uses of social media is to keep in touch with friends and relatives around the world, it’s also a platform for customers, investors and employees to communicate with each other. In previous blogs, we introduced you to social media for both businesses and for candidate engagement. This week we continue to analyse social media for businesses and specifically how it may be used as a powerful method for employee engagement. You may be thinking that with a bu

Build Your Brand! The Essentials for Growth

Branding, it comprises of all the ways in which you and your company is perceived. It promotes recognition, defines and illustrates your company, separates and contrasts you to competitors and provides directionality…These are just a few of the mass of benefits that branding, especially well designed and implemented branding, can have. So, lets face it, branding is immensely important. There is a rationale behind companies like Apple who spent USD $1.2 billion on company adve

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