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How to Conduct a Telephone Screen: Top Tips

To save your business time and money while recruiting, consider adding an extra step into your recruitment process: the telephone screen. If you’ve ever interviewed a candidate who looked perfect on paper, but later turned out to be a dud during the interview, telephone screening will stop your business wasting time on interviews with candidates who just aren’t right.

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How to Shape a Great Workplace: 4 Simple Steps

Creating a great place to work is becoming a higher priority for many businesses, with research consistently showing that those top employers outperform their competitors in critical areas like profitability, client satisfaction, investor return, and staff turnover.

Many of the world’s top companies attribute a great part of their success to their workplace culture, such as Google, Facebook, and Apple. However, this isn’t a strategy just for big business: small-medium businesses have even more to gain by creating a great workplace.

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How to Find Top-Quality Staff: Employee Referral Programs

Employers looking to find and hire talented employees might be surprised to find out the best place to start looking: their current employees. Employee referral schemes can be the most cost-effective source of high-quality candidates, giving employers the best value for their dollar with top-quality candidates.

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How to Find Out Why Staff Are Leaving

With the traditional rise in resignations that hit businesses in February, many employers are left wondering why their staff are leaving in droves.

While the “New Year, New Career” phenomenon provides unhappy staff with a reason to leave, it’s usually not the real reason behind their resignations. It simply provides already unhappy or neutral staff with a reason to move on - now, but their real reasons for wanting to leave will vary.

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Upcoming Breakfast Seminar: Low-Cost Strategies to Reduce Staff Turnover (Brisbane)

Reduce staff turnover and remove the risk of headhunters - discover simple, low-cost strategies to retain your employees

Recruitment Coach is holding a breakfast seminar in Brisbane, on Low-Cost Strategies to Reduce Staff Turnover on the 28 February, 2012. Learn how to motivate your staff to stay and excel with your business, and switch the focus away from just dollars to help you retain staff without relying on salary discussions.

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Top Interview Errors: How to Make a Hiring Mistake

It’s well-documented that a bad hire can have a huge negative impact on any business. From increased recruitment and training costs to losing valuable clients, avoiding a hiring mistake will save your business time and money.

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How to Protect Your Business from Hiring Mistakes

Even the best hiring managers can make recruitment mistakes, with recent research finding that poor hiring decisions are a widespread problem. A study by CareerBuilder found that more than two-in-three companies were affected by a bad hire within the last twelve months.

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2012 Workplace Relations Resolutions

For employers, the passing of a calendar year is an opportunity to review our 'New Year's business resolutions' and plans.

If not made already, it's never too late for employers to make their "HR Resolutions" for 2012 and there is no better time than now. Our guest author and workplace relations expert Brad Petley (Solicitor-Director of Acumen Lawyers) details his top tips for a successful year with your business' workplace relations and legal requirements:

New Year's Resolution: Review your business's employment documents

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“New Year, New Career”: How to Reduce New Year Turnover

The coming of the New Year is a time for reflection that leads many Australians to start reconsidering their employment options. With “new year, new career” a popular New Year’s resolution, employers will need to consider a different kind of resolution: keeping top performers on board.

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Two-thirds of Australian workers expect pay rise in 2012

Two-thirds of Australian employees believe that their salary does not accurately reflect their performance, according to new research from Randstad. The research also revealed some bad news for employers, finding that those dissatisfied staff expecting their salaries to be corrected over the coming year with a significant pay rise.

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