Blog | Selection Partners | Executive Recruitment, Melbourne - Part 3

Strategies for embedding flexible work

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With the unemployment rate hovering around the 5.5%, finding and keeping great people is vital to organisational success.  If a good employee needs to work flexibly after returning from parental leave or for carers leave or for some other equally important and valid reason, it’s important to implement this smoothly both for them and for others in the organisation. 

To follow are some key strategies for implementing flexible work successfully you need to consider.

  1. Get designing: Integrate flexibility into job descriptions, job and work design, and teams; integrate flexibility into performance reviews & development plans; assess performance on outcomes, and recognise outcomes can be met in different ways; treat flexibility as a management deliverable; explore possibilities of technology and alternative work strategies.

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Melbourne v Sydney (Coffee v Beaches)

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We all know the rivalry between these two great cities.  Coffee and culture, verses beaches and lifestyle.  Dark coloured clothes verses brighter colours.  It’s all a bit cliché. 

But it some ways this rings true for the broader recruitment industry.  Melbourne has always been known professionally as a city where relationships grow and you do business with people you like.  Where Sydney is fast paced and a place where deals are done.

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Interviews – a necessary evil?

Sometimes, even HR struggle when they are on the other side of the interview table.  Interviews are stressful, not many of us enjoy the experience, but they are unfortunately a necessary evil.

Whilst many people prepare for questions they might be asked, they often neglect preparing for questions to ask.

This is a critical mistake in your job search process, as asking good questions at an interview demonstrates:

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  • You are genuinely engaged in the conversation
  • You are interested in the company and the role
  • You are enthusiastic about the role and happy to let the interviewer know it
  • You are knowledgeable about the company – this is where your pre-interview research becomes important
  • You have come prepared and are serious about the role

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How Expensive is it to Replace Someone?

Have you ever worked out how much it costs to replace a member of staff?   I have, and I can tell you it’s expensive. Cost of Turnover Calculator

How expensive is it to replace someone? - selection partnersWhen calculating the cost we often forget to take into account some of the hidden costs such as; needing to have a contractor to fill in, the time it takes in writing an advertisement, how many hours of our time it sucks up in screening applicants then coordinating interviews let alone actually interviewing prospective new employees.

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Benefits of Diversity on Innovation

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In this volatile and complex world, for organisations to continue to prosper beyond 2017, Leaders need to build on their historic skills to embrace innovation and change.  Diversity of leadership encourages new ways of thinking, and challenges old paradigms

New leadership strengths such as courage, collaboration and diversity of thinking are essential.  The global management trend towards collaborative and inclusive leadership are often traits attributed to femininity. This celebration of stereo-typically female characteristics is a stark shift from what we have previously been wired to perceive as weakness in the workplace.

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