Irina Shamaeva, Sourcing Summit 2012 from Phillip Tusing on Vimeo.

Some of the speakers at #retec discussing new trends and developments in recruitment technology.

RECTEC (Recruitment Technology Evaluation Convention) 2011 from Phillip Tusing on Vimeo.

"If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you….. you have to let them make a lot of decisions. You have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay" – Steve Jobs

The FEMA Awards are on again. This year there is a People’s Choice category to select the Best Employer of Choice. In a slight twist a team from Fairfax created videos to showcase the workplace of all the finalists. Public votings ends on 31st August. Vote here

Is your recruitment ad worth sharing around?

Below is a graduate recruitment video from Dare, a marketing agency based in the UK. Besides being a big fan of infographics, I think Dare’s story telling and presentation of company info is entertaining and useful. In fact, I think it is worth sharing around.

We live in an age of sharing. Social media thrives on sharing. But, it’s usually the good stuff that always gets passed around. Do you noticed that job ads that get retweeted the most are the ones which are either funny, clever or out of the ordinary.  Read more...

Depression affects more than 800,000 Australians each year. So, it’s likely to directly or directly touch most of us, including our workplaces. In fact, it is estimated that over 6 million full days of work is lost each year.

It’s RUOK Day today. It’s a day dedicated to address the scourge of mental illness and highlight ways to prevent it. The organisation behind it encourages everyone to reach out to someone else and enquire if they are OK.  Read more...

Jeff Weiner, CEO of Linkedin, wants the company to be synonymous with ‘talent’ just as ‘Internet Search’ is for Google. In an interview with Techcrunch, he talks about past achievements and sheds light on future plans. Not surprisingly, Linkedin’s recruitment products are the largest and fastest growing part of the business. However, Jeff is careful to differentiate Linkedin from job boards. Here’s his take:  Read more...

Sylvia Hewlett, Founding President of Centre for Work-Life Policy, on what the new generation of workers want from employers:

I think jazz is the right metaphor. It’s freedom within form. Our new demographic research coming out in July really shows that what Gen Y wants, and is actually what boomers want too, is actually to stay with an employer/company that they had admire. But to mix and match, to ebb and flow, to have much more of freedom within form, and to have a long view.  Read more...

Five employers – Lincoln Benbow from Halcyon Knights, Tim Brady from Credo, Leigh Jasper from Aconex, David Markus from Combo, and Paul Rae from Bourke Group – discussed their approach to attracting and retaining staff (Via BRW Fast Club)

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Jason Fried reminds us how much our workplaces are optimised for interruptions.

Consider these numbers – According to Gloria Mark, the average knowledge worker switches tasks every three minutes, and, once distracted, a worker takes nearly a half-hour to resume the original task. And according to Basex, interruptions and the requisite recovery time now consume 28 percent of a worker’s day.

How are you coping?

Here’s the latest from Tom Peters. He is frustrated with HR, particularly with standard evaluation forms.

What do you use in your organisation?

Lemonade is a yet to be released movie about the experiences of people who lost their jobs.

Here’s the synopsis:

More than 130,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives.  Read more...

“ Snobbery is a global phenomenon…… and the dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. You encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, "What do you do?"  – Alain de Botton.

A witty look at our ideas of success and failure.

“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new” ~ Rory Sutherland

Ad man Rory Sutherland, in an entertaining talk, argued that a lot of value can be gained by tinkering with perceptions rather than trying to change reality.

Whether you target job seekers, recruitment advertisers or consumers of recruitment service, you can create new value by changing how you are perceived. Often that  mean not doing the things you are currently doing.  Read more...