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Talent Acquisition

A Lesson in Hiring Lunatics

My recent flight home from another dash around our Asia Pacific offices found me somewhat reflective. Sure, the business had been going through ups and downs – everyone is.  I mean, its hard to keep the value for investors coming in decade after decade and its downright tough enough just finding the right talent to…

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Talent Acquisition

Future Proofing Your Recruitment Strategy

Modern recruiters know it is not good enough to simply advertise jobs and approach candidates on social media. The modern recruiter knows that there is so much more to recruitment than being able to find candidates. If you are stuck in a cycle of just finding candidates, how will you ever know if a person…

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Employer Branding

How to Inspire & Motivate Employees With a Strong Values-Driven Culture

It’s sad to see that McKinsey research shows that during transformations, 86 percent of senior executives believe that they are actively demonstrating the change they want employees to make, but only 53 percent of employees do*. Workplace values drive the attitudes and behaviours that make your team effective or otherwise. These values might include respecting…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Create a Template for Reaching Out to Passive Candidates

There are so many different ways we can approach passive candidates now-a-days. But, what about the initial outreach? Did you sound professional when you wrote that email? What about enthusiastic? Genuine? It’s tough to create an email that both captures the candidates attention while also being informative. Here are a few steps to help with…

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Four Mistakes People Make When Hiring an Accountant

Hiring an accountant sounds like it should be pretty straightforward doesn’t it? If the qualifications are more or less the same, and the services offered are more or less the same, how hard can it be to just pick one from a list of Google search results? Or even from an ad in the local…