This Week in Talent (18 Jun)

This week we found tools to help you benchmark your hiring process against your industry competitors, we learn how can become more aware and empathetic, we explore the concept of reskilling vs. upskilling and how they can help to reenergise your workforce, and more!


Are you using recruiting metrics that matter?

Great tools here from the folks at SmartRecruiters to help you benchmark your process against your industry competitors and calculate your own hiring scorecard. Check it out.

What I’ve learned from being the white child of the family

“Racism shares the same challenge as unconscious bias: until we realise that we are part of the problem… it is impossible to find a solution.” – Miléna Le Mancq, Talent Specialist at Vend NZ. Powerful stuff. Click to learn what you can do to become more aware and empathetic.

Putting time into your Talent – the price of poor recruitment

“Once you put a dollar value on each step and the flow on effect, you see how expensive recruitment can be if done poorly.” – our very own Sarah Purches shares some of the key lessons she had learned, initiatives she had implemented and tools she is using to ensure her recruitment process is absolutely spot on. Excellent read.

Upskilling, reskilling and preparing for the future

Here is an excellent article exploring the concept of upskilling and reskilling, breaking them down and explaining what they each truly mean. Innermobility has been touted the next big thing and as we slowly move into the next recovery phase of pandemic, perhaps now is a good time to take a proactive approach to this. Click to learn more.

Give a shout out to your Leader and their – Leadership Effect

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care,” says ATC2020 DIGITAL speaker, D’Neale Prosser. We need good leaders now, more than ever. Here, she shares her take on how to become one.


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