October 18, 2018 Organisational Strategy, Recruitment

Could your employer brand be stopping you from recruiting the top candidates? Here’s how to improve it

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.

September 30, 2014 Health & Wellbeing, Recruitment

One great way to reduce staff absenteeism by up to 80 percent

Encouraging your employees to cycle to work has huge benefits to both employees and organisations. In fact, as well as increasing employee mental and physical health and wellbeing, workplaces that support bike-riding employees can reduce absenteeism by up to 80%! Despite this, two thirds of Australians still rely on cars to travel to work every day. With Ride2Work […]

July 15, 2015 Recruitment

This is where your recruitment process is going wrong – and what you can do to fix it

If you’ve hired the wrong person for a job, can you train and develop them to become the right person?

According to research by leadership consultancy DDI, for certain facets of work, training is just not a solution for poor hiring decisions. The solution rather, is taking the time to develop excellent recruitment processes in the first place.

July 25, 2014 Interviewing, Recruitment

6 interview tips to find that perfect staff member

Last month department store Myer made the news for all the wrong reasons, after they hired Andrew Flanagan as Group General Manager of Strategy and Business Development. Mr Flanagan had applied for the job citing a great work history including being a managing director and vice-president with Zara, one of Myer’s rivals. Just one day into his […]

July 17, 2017 Recruitment

Five tips to hire an amazing admin person for your NFP

Every organisation has them. And a bad one can cause serious problems for a team – while a good one can be be a god-send. So what do you look for when you’re recruiting an admin person for your team?

That’s what we asked our NFP People community last month. And we were pleased to receive some fantastic responses from recruitment pros in a range of organisations.

So here are the top five tips on how to hire admin staff for your organisation, thanks to the NFP People community.

May 28, 2013 Recruitment

Like it? Check it! Why reference checks are crucial when recruiting for NFP organisations

Do you always check references before offering a position to a new employee?

If the answer is no, consider this: how do you know that the candidates for the last role you hired for – perhaps even the successful candidate! – didn’t exaggerate their experience and qualifications?

April 29, 2013 Health & Wellbeing, Managing People Well, Organisational Strategy, Recruitment

How to grow a healthy environment for women at work

Almost 80 percent of Australia’s community sector workforce are women, so when the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) surveys its members, it’s keen to know what motivates women at work. Last year a new section called ‘The Environment’ was added to CPSU’s annual What Women Want survey, to explore how work and home life […]

April 20, 2016 Human Resources, Interviewing, Recruitment

Three questions to ask when interviewing and assessing serial job-hoppers

Restarting the recruitment process sooner than anticipated can be a real drain on resources, so it’s natural to respond by avoiding candidates whose CVs reveal a track record of job-hopping. But what things should you look out for to ensure you don’t miss out on a star recruit?

September 2, 2026 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Organisational Strategy, Recruitment

Could your NFP be hiring (more) refugees?

As the Australia debates whether our intake of refugees is the “right” number, ACOSS has noted that “20,000 refugees per year is . . . just three to five per cent of arrivals.”

But the heated debate over numbers obscures the enormous contribution refugees make to our economy – including as employees, often in regional areas or in less popular jobs that can be impossible to fill otherwise.

Refugees often arrive in Australia with valuable skills but without recognised qualifications and sometimes with challenges that are a result of their experiences of displacement.

For organisations looking to fill vacancies or skills gaps – and potentially make an additional impact by helping some of the most vulnerable people in our community – employing refugees might be an option you haven’t fully considered.

July 29, 2026 AI in the Workplace, Making Decisions, Recruitment, Recruitment & HR Technology

Tempted to use AI to shortlist your job applicants? Here are four reasons that’s a bad idea

Four reasons not to use AI to shortlist applicants

Reviewing job applications can be hard, time-consuming work – especially when you have a long list of applicants.

And in the last couple of years, AI large language model (LLM) tools like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini have become appealing options to cut down the hours and effort of reviewing and shortlisting your job applications.

But while AI can help automate many once-manual processes, should reviewing applications be one of them?

Professor Alysia Blackham from Melbourne Law School is one of the world’s leading experts in age discrimination law. She explains why it’s a bad idea to rely on AI tools to screen your job applicants.