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Using psychometrics for personnel selection can be quite a contentious subject. Speaking with my father, he remembers the days when it was commonplace for someone to use "working too hard" as an answer to "what are your areas of weakness?" in an interview. These days, that doesn't work ...

What an exciting time in your life! School is over and you have the rest of your life ahead of you. With this comes the decision about what you want to do for a living. You’ve probably gained, or are working towards qualifications and need to begin your job search.

Exciting as this is, it can be ...

Don't Stall Your Job Search
Here’s an example of how stalling your job search can really hurt. I worked with Leanne a year ago – she desperately wanted to secure a minesite cleaning role, and she had great skills and experience for this type of work. She’d worked hard over the previous 18 months to ...

A recent survey of over 1,000 employers has discovered that 83% believe young people should have higher quality career advice than what is currently on offer to them. The survey, which was carried out by Skills and Guild and the Edge Foundation, also found that…


60% of employers feel that the ...

What do you need to do now and in the coming months to make it happen?

The first thing you need to do is get a calendar – on line or a real one – and circle 6th June 2014. Write on it ‘celebrate my dream job’. Set a reward to go with it too – a holiday, a new suit, some jewellery or whatever you ...

In considering how employees are going to advance their careers, why not have a career customization program? This can be similar to college students working with advisors or counselors. Employees could work with a mentor or someone in HR designated to discuss all the opportunities at the company ...

J: What advice would you give to client organisations to make them better at recruitment?

K: I would always encourage an HRD to have a small number of strong relationships with good recruiters and not be a fair weather friend. So many say they want to develop a genuine partnership but then won’t ...

With social media sites and online job boards monopolizing the job search process, applicants have become over-stimulated during their job hunt. While most job seekers often do not think to work with a staffing or placement firm, we tend to hear the same comments about their misconceptions. While ...

It seems like just yesterday I wrote an article about the evolution of recruiting and how, for all the changes in technology and demographics recruiting hadn’t really changed all that much (at the time), save the need to actively attract talent. It was June 2010. In the years that've followed we’ve ...

Beleaguered human resources departments have historically struggled to provide data that can be regularly benchmarked and measured against targets. But today, innovation in HR technology provides an opportunity for businesses to deliver concrete insight to the board, that can be used to create a ...