What happens when you take the feedback of clients, carers and community, and use this to inform the way you recruit your staff?
It may sound fraught with challenges, but this approach is how primary health service organisation Star Health has structured its entire recruitment strategy, and to great effect.
Meetings should be short, sharp and productive. They should help get a job done efficiently and deliver a lot of value in a short period of time.
It’s here! We’re so excited to share the program for the 2018 Not-For-Profit People Conference with you – it’s only a month away now!
Struggling to get the number or quality of applications for your latest jobs? Have you considered whether your “employer brand” – the sum-total of how potential employees see your organisation – could be the problem?
Mark Puncher, founder and CEO of Employer Branding Australia works with organisations to present themselves to candidates in the most authentic way, and says it’s critical to approach candidates with a different message than one you might present to the public, to donors or to clients.
What can organisations do to ensure their casual workforce is engaged and willing to stay with your organisation longer?
Building resilience – the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, or stress – can help people continue to perform at work, even in challenging times.
Could you be missing out on a heap of incredible applicants for your jobs, just because people aren’t clicking through to your job ads?
Research shows a significant correlation between the experience of domestic violence and reduced lifetime earnings. Some studies in the United States show a 25 per cent loss in income associated with abuse.
Does your organisation’s HR strategy have contributions and buy-in from your whole organisation? The idea of collecting feedback from every single team or department in your organisation to shape your HR strategy might sound like a colossal challenge – or even a waste of time. Yet this is exactly what youth cancer charity CanTeen has […]
Reference checking can sometimes seem like a final box-ticking exercise before you hire the person you’ve already decided is the best candidate.
But taking the time to do your due diligence is, in fact, a non-negotiable part of recruitment. And it’s an easy thing to get wrong, exposing your team or whole organisation to potentially toxic employees – or worse.
So how do you make the most of your reference checks?
That’s something David Meere knows intimately. As the National Manager – Talent and Attraction at for-purpose organisation Life Without Barriers, Meere has many years of experience with conducting reference checks – from the best questions to ask to red flags to watch out for and everything in between.