Hi everyone – my last TWIT for the month of October is NOW! I’ve really enjoyed doing the TWIT again. It’s such a great way for me (a busy, important, and equally lazy gal with a job in talent acquisition) to keep up to date on talent things happening around the place. I thought for…
The Innovation Lab is one of the most exciting sessions at The Australasian Talent Conference. Many now mainstream Talent Products launched in ATC’s annual new Talent Tech Competition. On 9 November at ATC2022 , Luna Park Sydney, our seven finalists will pitch off against each other live on stage. The winner will be determined by the…
Welcome back to Week 3 of October TWIT with Jody. So this week I’ve been busy working on a bunch of different things, and one of those things is planning our End of Year event for the team. I love event planning, and I am usually the first person to volunteer their time to plan…
New Zealand, like Australia, is experiencing near record-low unemployment rates of 3.3 percent, providing further evidence of a tight labor market. In the country’s burgeoning tech sector, talent availability has also been hard hit. In response, software engineers, ICT security specialists, multimedia specialists, and several other ICT management roles have recently been included on New Zealand’s green…
In my recent blog on the 2022 RCSA SHAPE Conference I outlined how I saw the need for the mindset of recruiters to evolve due to ‘conformist’ candidates now being outnumbered by ‘individualists’. To use a powerful metaphor offered by Nuriah Jadai on the first morning of last week’s RCSA SHAPE Conference – we need to come…
Week 2 of October TWIT with Jody. Glad to have you here. My birthday celebrations are now over for another year, and … I’m struggling this week. The celebrations were grand, and I’m ready to do absolutely NOTHING this coming weekend whilst I recover mentally and physically from a weekend full of mirth. Pure mirth.…
Recruiters have not paid very much attention to the quantitative side of the quality of hire. We frequently talk about hiring manager satisfaction and other subjective measures of quality. Still, I don’t know of any recruiting function that has even tried to quantitatively measure the value or contribution of people that they have hired. I…
Oh my god, HIIIIIII! I’m back for the month of October to deliver the TWIT to you. Lordy what fun little talent things have I been up to recently? WELL … We successfully launched our first ever summer internship program (woo hoo) Completed Talent Acquisition user experience journey mapping, process mapping, pin pointed all the…
In recent years organisations have spent vast – even excessive – amounts of money on workshops, programs, and other initiatives to help workers become more resilient. The misguided hope of these organisations is that such initiatives would enable staff to thrive in the workplace, despite unrelenting workloads, incessant change, and many other pressures. Yet as…