Category Archives: Executive Talent Attraction & Retention

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 [...]

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How to explain those gaps in your resume

February 17, 2010 – 12:23 am

Over the course of our employment the reality is that we are all going to have some gaps here and there in our resumes for a myriad of reasons. It could be due to travel, family, study, redundancy, a career break, ill-health, time off between employers and so on. In fact, it would be somewhat [...]

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Hiring on potential – does it exist or is it only about what you have done?

February 2, 2010 – 11:09 pm

I  have been reading the fantastic book by Charles Handy ‘The Age of Unreason’ over the summer holidays. I was hooked after I found it on my father’s bookshelf and I cannot seem to stop thinking about the myriad of fascinating points the book raises. One of those points is the fact that most intelligent [...]

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New Australian Government ‘Free Career Advice Hot Line’ for Job Seekers

December 15, 2009 – 8:11 am

The Australian Government has recently launched a new phone advice line available to Australian Job Seekers who have been affected by the global financial crisis.   Under the government’s Keep Australia Working strategy, the hotline is just one of a range of strategies aimed at helping to protect jobs and support businesses in the current economic climate.
The [...]

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As a job seeker when applying for jobs online what works best for you?

December 14, 2009 – 2:01 am

Michael Specht from inspecht produced the ‘Australian Corporate Career Website Report’, which is an interesting read for anyone who is involved in sourcing talent.  However, the report is also of relevance to anyone who is job seeking as it highlights many of the deficiencies with corporate careers sites. It covers off navigation, the job application [...]

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Job Ads that will Get You the Talent You Want – the Devil’s in the Detail

October 22, 2009 – 12:24 am

Six Figures has always advocated having detailed job ads to attract both professional and passive talent. When you are targeting more senior people who are already employed you certainly have to work very hard to get their attention. They will not be lured by brief, vague or poorly written job ads that fail to include [...]

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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 [...]

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Productivity Commission Releases Discussion Draft on Executive Remuneration in Australia

September 30, 2009 – 3:29 am

The Productivity Commission has just released a Discussion Draft on Executive Remuneration in Australia, borne out of its public inquiry into the regulatory framework around remuneration of directors and executives of companies. This inquiry is one of the local reactions to worldwide calls for curbs on “episodes of excess and poor pay practices” for executives, [...]

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Free Report: Sources of Talent in Australia

September 4, 2009 – 7:05 am

The Source of Talent, 09, a report tracking the hiring practices of organisations in Australia, has been released. The report, a result of surveying 409 organisations who made a total of 92,136 hires in the last 12 months, compares the effectiveness of 17 different
identifiable sources of talent.
“The study reveals clear national trends but the sources [...]

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What Do Most Employees Want From Their Employers?

August 27, 2009 – 5:00 am

There is a lot of research available now about what motivates and engages employees, and what is interesting is that although salary has always featured it has never been the number one driver, particularly for Executives and Professionals.
Late last year Six Figures conducted research around this topic and produced the report “What You Need to [...]

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