by Merran Brown | Aug 28, 2023 | Career Transition, Outplacement, Recruitment, Talent Assessment
Organisational change, whether prompted by mergers, new competitors, economic pressures, or unforeseen events like pandemics, often leads to reorganisation and downsizing. Downsizing may involve the outplacement of individuals or entire teams. From the perspective of...
by Lyn Cole | Aug 13, 2020 | Career Transition, Consulting, HR Services | Comms, Job search, Recruitment | Exec Search
In the depths of a pandemic-related lockdown, what could be further from a manager’s mind than recruitment? Australia’s unemployment rate jumped to a 19 year high (7.1%) in June of 2020, with the nation’s economy shrinking around the same percentage in Q2. A lot of...
by Lyn Cole | May 13, 2020 | Career Transition, Consulting, HR Services | Comms, Inspiration, Interviews, Job search, Recruitment | Exec Search
What’s the difference between an interview panel and a roulette wheel? It sounds like a setup for a joke, but it’s also a viable question. The hiring process should be far more assured than any casino game. It should be informed by a reliable knowledge of the rules...
by Lyn Cole | May 5, 2020 | Assess | Train | Coach, Career Transition, Consulting, HR Services | Comms, Inspiration, Interviews, Job search
It’s hard to deny that business landscapes will be altered as social distancing rules ebb and flow around the world, but one thing is reasonably sure: The war for talent will rage on. As organisations large and small look to gain a foothold in tenuous times, the...
by Lyn Cole | Feb 26, 2020 | Career Transition, Consulting, Culture, HR Services | Comms, Inspiration, Interviews, Job search, Recruitment | Exec Search
For recruiters and hiring managers, the best feeling in the world is when a new hire settles in and starts to make an impact. You may have considered a hundred qualified candidates, but when you find the one who fits seamlessly with their new employer, and creates...
by Lyn Cole | Jan 28, 2020 | Career Transition, Culture, HR Services | Comms, Inspiration, Job search, Recruitment | Exec Search
The first two decades of the 21st century are in the bag, and millennials – for all the impact they continue to have on the workplace – aren’t all that young anymore. The youngest among them are in their mid-twenties, and have built up a few years of work experience....
