Category Archives: Employers & Social Media

Executives and high income earners continue to strongly endorse job boards for finding jobs: Executive Monitor

March 7, 2010 – 10:57 pm

The Executive Monitor report, a study to understand the work behaviour and intention of Executives in Australia, has been released today.
Job boards continue to remain an important channel for executives to find a job. While only 11.6% of executives credited job boards for finding direct employment, the vast majority (67%) planned on using job boards [...]

By Karen Jenkin | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Expats, Information of Interest, Job Boards & Job Hunting, Job Seeking & Social Media, Personal & Work Values, Personal Branding, Recruitment, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Searching for the Six Figure Job, Six Figures Press Releases, Social Media & Technology | Comments (1)

What Do You Value Most From Your Employer? Can Employers Really Buy Employee Engagement?

October 27, 2009 – 11:53 pm

I recently attended an HR event on the topic of sourcing and retaining talent. They had a diverse group of speakers from different industries discussing how they attract and retain good staff, with some sharing some solid insights. The common theme was that people who are engaged in their work are far easier to retain, [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Channel, Human Resources, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Social Media & Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

The ‘Slow Movement’ for Conferences! Is technology taking over a ‘face to face’ people connection occasion?

October 21, 2009 – 12:49 am

Recently I attended a few conferences, which have been terrific. One was a digital media conference, the other a recruitment and technology related conference, so there was a lot of strong technology flavor. Upon reflection however I have to wonder if I gained the maximum benefit from these conferences thanks to technology taking over my [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Channel, Information of Interest, Interesting Events, Networking | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

Demise of the Traditional Resume Coming?

October 13, 2009 – 11:39 pm

The demise of the traditional resume has been written and discussed by many for years now. With the advent and growth of social media the topic seems to come up now more than ever.  David Talamelli from Oracle wrote an interesting blog piece recently on the subject “Is This the End of the Road for [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Resume Writing, Six Figures News | Comments (1)

Why HR Needs to Start Participating & Engaging with Job Seekers

October 8, 2009 – 1:50 am

The Fast Company article ‘How Social Media is Upending the Enterprise’ was sent to me this week by a colleague and I could have easily not read it given we are being saturated by this topic. However, this article so clearly highlights the challenge for recruiters and brings home the reality of the changing relationships [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Human Resources, Job Seeking & Social Media, Recruitment, Social Media & Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Flexible Work Arrangments – Who Wins & Who Loses?

September 23, 2009 – 1:56 am

At this week’s RecruitTECH conference Kate Skyes from CareerMums spoke about the topic of workplace flexibility, with a focus on mums returning to work.  The topic certainly received varying responses from the audience, with people having had mixed experiences of success with flexible workers.
Another subject that was raised on this point was the release [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Human Resources, Information of Interest | Tagged , , , , | Leave a Comment

The Etiquette of Accepting / Rejecting Social Networking Invitations

September 15, 2009 – 11:50 pm

To accept or reject Invitations from sites like LinkedIn and Facebook can be a rather stressful decision dependent on whom the invitation is coming from. It seems we face invitations from school and university days, from former colleagues, bosses, others who share similar interests, those wanting to hire us and many more. However many of us [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Job Seeking & Social Media, Networking | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Why Your Business Needs a Decent Careers Site to Leverage Social Media

August 20, 2009 – 6:49 am

Brett Iredale in his post ‘Forget Social Media Until You Have Your Careers Site In Order’ highlights the need for businesses to get their house in order before jumping on the social media bandwagon. In his post Brett says that “Once again the facts tell us that your careers site is one of the most [...]

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Goodbye Excessive Payouts for Executives

August 11, 2009 – 4:12 am

An interesting article in the Australian Financial Review has stated that Executive’s payouts might soon be limited to just one years pay in a bid to stop multimillion dollar handouts to underperforming executives.
According to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) between 1990 and 2005 top CEO pay had ballooned from a multiple of 18 [...]

By Karen Jenkin | Also posted in Executive Career Services & Coaching, Personal Branding, Redundancy & Outplacement, Reputation Management, Salary & Negotiation | Tagged , | Leave a Comment

Interview with Stephen Collins, founder of acidlabs; thinker & doer in social media and user experience

July 13, 2009 – 12:40 am

This week we interviewed Stephen Collins, founder of acidlabs and thought leader in the field of helping organizations to communicate and collaborate more effectively. “Stephen works with a range of organisations in the public and private sectors helping them change old corporate culture into a new model – one where people, where conversation, collaboration and [...]

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