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The best places to work in Australia

Posted on15. Jul, 2011 by .

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BRW has released its 2011 list of the top places to work in Australia. Congratulations to the top 10, which are: Google E-web Marketing NetApp Australia Juniper Networks Atlassian Davidson Recruitment OBS Ikon Communications MRWED Group Altis Consulting In addition BRW has a video on their site showing some of the best workplaces: http://tv.brw.com.au/video/154490 Jelly [...]

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What price inequality?

Posted on07. Mar, 2011 by .

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There are a large number of factors which impact upon employing organisations in Australia.  The ageing population, changing participation rates, and observations about the propensity of young people to career development and the predominance of Generation Y in key recruiting demographics are critical external factors.  And there can be little doubt that the Australian population [...]

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Daemon 2010 Xmas Quiz

Posted on17. Dec, 2010 by .

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It’s  time for the annual Daemon Xmas Quiz.  The time of year when teams and departments band together to prove their worth and test their memories (or indeed show their age!) This year we are testing your powers of observation and your knowledge and memory of toys by asking you to idenifity the Xmas best sellers [...]

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Keeping in touch

Posted on09. Dec, 2010 by .

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More than 540 million people are active users of Facebook and 70% of them live outside the US.  On average they connect to 60 pages, groups or events and create 70 pieces of content which they share with their 170 friends. When asked what they want to use social networks for, 74.3% of them want [...]

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Social Media – A recruitment and retention tool action plan

Posted on30. Nov, 2010 by .

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In this 3-part blog series, we’ll look at some key challenges and questions we’ve obtained from businesses across Australia relating to how best to use (or not as the case may be) social media as a recruitment and retention tool both for their organisations and for themselves. The reviews will be divided into three parts [...]

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Social Media on trial

Posted on15. Nov, 2010 by .

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According to Computerworld as reported in The Week, over half of US organisations’ have banned the use of Twitter and Facebook in the office.  I assume this means that they have banned their use through the corporate network as limiting use on smart phones would be more difficult; however, it continues the trend of organisation’s [...]

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Employee values: nature or nuture?

Posted on30. Sep, 2010 by .

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Groundbreaking technology, award winning designs and old fashioned customer service. That’s the recipe that seems to be proving a success for design and engineering giants, Dyson.    Not only have Dyson developed vacuum technology that was, and continues to remain, at the cutting edge of the industry, their expansion into fans and hand dryers has [...]

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Can you measure creativity?

Posted on16. Sep, 2010 by .

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An interesting conundrum when recruiting, training or teaming marketing and creative staff, or indeed any employee, has been whether or not you can test for creativity. Sure, for a creative or a designer the show reel or portfolio has provided a measure of previous output, but the more suspicious amongst you may have found yourselves [...]

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Recruiting through Social Media

Posted on09. Sep, 2010 by .

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According to the recent Jobvite Social Recruiting survey, over 73% of companies are using social media channels to support and/or augment their recruitment activity. Excluding the corporate blog, the top social media applications used by recruiters were: Linkedin          78.3% Facebook         54.6% Twitter            44.8% You Tube         13.7% MySpace        5.4% Jobvite’s survey draws from [...]

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Rise and Shine (Early for Success, Late for Fun)

Posted on31. Aug, 2010 by .

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If you’re a morning person, have you got a jump on those that do their best work as the day wears on?  The world seems to be skewed to people being at their most effective in the morning. This starts from day-care, schooling and continues through into corporate life. There are some exceptions; hospitality, healthcare, [...]

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