Tag: DEI

This Week in Talent: Gemma Saunders signs off with a reminder that we are all workplace editors, the realities of a changing DEI space, a Gen-Z perspective on graduate recruitment, and more!
This Week in Talent: Gems reframes change in a positive way including the mass redundancies at Telstra, an interesting AI partnership, and the latest in-demand jobs list. She gives us a practical tool for inclusive questions to promote neuro inclusion and wellbeing and looks at a new challenge for farmers.
Can you ask applicants about their cultural background, sexuality, and other protected attributes in the hiring process?Jo Vohland sat down with two experts – one legal and one cultural – on what identity questions we should and shouldn’t ask in a hiring process.
Gemma Saunders worked at Medibank in a range of different Talent roles across Talent Acquisition, Organisational Development, DEI, and Employee Experience for almost 10 years before going out on her own with The Workplace Edit. We sat down with Gemma to talk to her about transitioning from life in Talent at a major corporate organisation to working for herself.
This Week in Talent: How can we re-ignite our fascination in "the craft of TA"?, upcoming 'placement poverty' payments not enough, the future skills all Talent Teams need, does your DEI initiative promote assimilation over inclusion?, candidate relationship management, and more!
This Week in Talent: Tapod have the reins! and they discuss DE&I initiatives sweeping the country, menopause in the workplace, the continual march of AI in TA, pressures on the labour market, Tik Tok for recruitment and much more!
This week has been the biggest we’ve seen in terms of progress in gender equality in Australia. Not only is it International Women’s Day, but it’s the week when the Minister for Women, Katy Gallagher, will release Australia’s first-ever gender equality strategy. Not to mention the biggest news of the last week - the watershed moment where the WGEA lifted the veil on gender pay gaps from some of the country's biggest employers. And, yes, some of them were big!