Destination Talent

How Loyal Are Employees in Australia?

Phillip Tusing — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:32:15 +0000

A new report by Ipsos suggested that employees are becoming more loyal. According to the study, the majority (55%) of the 1022 Australians surveyed last month indicated they would remain loyal even if they get offered a higher pay elsewhere. A similar study by Kelly Services in March (sample size of 20,000) found that 44% [...]

Voices: Calling Recruiters to Help Improve Supplier-Client Relationship With Employers

Phillip Tusing — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:08:05 +0000

How can employers and recruiters work together more efficiently? What processes are broken and require fixes? How can the client-supplier relationship in the recruitment industry be improved? Of course, there are no easy answers. It’s my hunch, though, that the vast majority of friction between employers and recruiters occur mainly because both groups understand very [...]

Six Reports for Recruiters to Read

Phillip Tusing — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:26:38 +0000

Age Diversity Report It is a well documented fact that Australia lags other developed economies in mature age participation rate . According to the ACS age discrimination is rampant in the ICT sector, especially affecting those 45 years and older; worryingly ageism appears to be deeply ingrained in business culture. ACS’s frustration is understandable [...]

Introducing Destination Talent

Phillip Tusing — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:36:51 +0000

Say hello to the new Destination Talent. Our aim is twofold. Firstly, we want to make it easy for buyers and sellers of recruitment products and services to find each other. Our particular focus is to connect and educate organisations, mainly SMEs, on the role and relevance of third-party recruitment service providers. Secondly, we want [...]

Talent Tidbits

Phillip Tusing — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:50:59 +0000

Friendship at work: A fascinating look at Zappos’ work culture. Here’s an excerpt: “ we’ve begun tracking employee relationships. When employees log in to their computers, we ask them to look at a picture of a random employee and then ask them how well they know that person — the options include “say hi in [...]

Zipf’s Law and the importance of being #1 in the recruitment space

Phillip Tusing — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:12:47 +0000

It pays to be #1. Seth Godin, in his books (first in the Ideas Virus and in The Dip), often referred to Zipf’s Law which basically asserts that the most widely used word in English is used ten times more than the tenth most popular word. In other words, the #1 player in any field [...]

The Future of HR in Australia

Phillip Tusing — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:26:36 +0000

AHRI’s latest white paper takes a comprehensive look at how the HR profession might look a decade from now. The paper predicts that the role of HR professionals will change significantly by 2020 (when Gen X and Y will take over the board rooms of Australian organisations). The paper highlighted nine new likely roles for [...]

Navigating the Australian Job Board Landscape (Job Board Report 2010 Released)

Phillip Tusing — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:15:48 +0000

The 2010 Job Board Report is ready for download here. Here are four observations from the report: The Competitive Landscape The wrath of the downturn spared no one; industry revenue dipped by 21%. However, the industry grew in numbers even in the midst of falling revenue. We recorded 270 jobs boards, an increase of 14% [...]

Navigating The New Zealand Job Board Industry

Phillip Tusing — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:08:12 +0000

Growth of Job Boards: Serving a 2.4 million strong workforce, the NZ job board sector is comparatively smaller in size, but nonetheless as vibrant and colourful as its Australian counterpart. We monitored 89 online destinations which qualified as being a job board. The actual number is likely to be much higher. Since the mid nineties, [...]

Talent Talk: The Value of Accurately Promoting Employer Value Proposition Across All Touch Points

Phillip Tusing — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:35:08 +0000

Brett Minchington explains the importance of promoting a consistent employment brand message across all touch points With the increasing fragmentation of communication channels used to express, ‘What it’s like to work for this organisation,’ and ‘What’s in it for you,’ it pays to ensure the employment experience you promote to potential employees through a job [...]