I couldn’t start the final TWIT for 2021 any other way than to acknowledge the beautiful and brilliant talent community for your insane levels of hard work this year. In a completely changed market, the swift direction change has taken every ounce of thinking, creativity, drive and spirit. You’ve given it your all. This has been…
It’s my last TWIT of the year!! What a year it’s been – fun but challenging. FUN whilst we all attended virtual networking events, made virtual friends and picked up new hobbies. CHALLENGING in that … the candidate market has gone dry and crumbly. If you were at our State of Talent Acquisition event last…
Strengths are the things that we do well and find energising, they are found in every person. Strengths can be interpersonal – like Rapport Builder, they can be about how we think – like Creativity or how we are motivated – like Drive. They can also be about who we are as people, what we…
In this webinar, we discussed the challenges that talent teams are facing right now, and the concerns and opportunities for talent functions as we move into 2022.
If there was a perfect storm in the world of talent, it would be one that promises high demand, low supply, precarious market conditions, challenging new health and regulatory requirements, and a wave of resignations. Some talent functions are facing the storm in a warship with a well-defined battle strategy and others in a sailboat,…
Hello there – happy Thursdays! So … obviously we talent folks understand the market right now. I’ve been recruiting for 12 years, and I don’t ever remember the market being this gross – counter offers, nil appoints, and I’ve had 3 candidates in the last 3 months withdraw from a recruitment process I was running…
It’s been nineteen months since the Black Lives Matter movement. Nineteen months since we saw organisations post their black squares on social media, make public pledges to fight for racial justice and vow to be allies to black, Indigenous & people of colour (BIPOC). So, where are we now? We’ve all seen the organisations that…
Jeff Borland, The University of Melbourne Job vacancies in Australia are at a record level. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ job vacancy rate, measuring the proportion of available jobs currently unfilled, is now more than 2.5% – the highest level since the series started in the late 1970s. This statistic gives weight to all the…
Helloooooo, Soooo remember the TA survey we were asking you to fill out back in September? WELL the results are in, and now it’s time to find out exactly what the state of TA teams looks like around Australia – what are our priorities, what are our challenges, and what are our predictions for the…