Quality, retention and cost effective – what more could you ask for when it comes to recruiting the perfect candidate? For most people in the industry, an employee referral program (ERP) is one of the most effective hiring tools you can have in your recruitment tool kit, not to mention the best kept secret in recruitment marketing.

According to research conducted on behalf of psychometric consulting firm, SHL, a third of jobseekers are lying on their resumes or during interviews.

If you’ve ever groaned about your organisation’s staff turnover, spare a pitying thought for the HR Officers in charge of recruiting for the shows, fairs, fetes and exhibitions that irregularly dot the calendar across Australia each year.

Recruitment and Human Capital Management news and analysis website Shortlist reports that more than a third of all job seekers accept that employers are entitled to check out their social media profiles when assessing them for a role.

However, while 34% of the 900 candidates surveyed expected employers to check their social media profile and found this acceptable, a larger group - some 46%, felt employers were invading their privacy by screening them on social media.

How to review your 2009/10 results to provide lessons and opportunities for 2010/11

On HR Daily 02 July

After reading a great article on HR Daily from leadership author Bruce Rosengarten, I was faced with the startling reality that all the mean teachers from my high school years were mean to me for a reason - because if I fail, so do they!

This is an important lesson that is getting taught the hard way to many management personnel who think that once they reach that last rung on their leadership ladder, that all the hard work is finished and they can just sit back and yell at their minions.

I read a great article on HR Daily that was picked up from Dan Bingham's guest post on the Halogen Software blog. Here's just a little bit of what he had to say...