The Benefits Of Talking About Your Benefits

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When you’re advertising a position, and trying to attract the right candidates to your role, there are a few basic fields you know they’ll want to know about – salary, location, working hours, and career advancement options.

However all too often, employers completely overlook the other benefits that they offer their staff. Whether they’ve come to take these benefits for granted day-to-day, or they just think they’re too trivial to mention – one of the keys to attraction strategy is to make your organisation stand out from your competition, as a place people would want to work. Telling candidates about the types of benefits they’ll enjoy is part of that!

Of course, you don’t need to go overboard, like the huge social media companies are renowned for. You don’t need to offer your employees a Beanbag Lounge like LinkedIn do, or an odd combination of services like photo processing and leather care, like Facebook. You certainly don’t need to follow Twitter’s lead in having a rock climbing wall installed in the office.

Instead, Employment Office works with a lot of organisations that provide affordable but novel benefits that help to attract the right people to their team, and bring some convenience or colour to their day. Maybe your organisation does something similar, or maybe it’s something you could consider!

  • Your birthday off on paid leave – CatholicCare Canberra & Goulburn, ACT
  • Dinners, movie tickets and shopping vouchers – the sort of treats that ensure staff enjoy their time away from work too – Sutherlands Property Management, Gold Coast
  • Trips to the USA for professional training – Windmill Ag, Ballarat
  • Employee Assistance Program – a free, confidential and voluntary counselling service provided to employees and immediate family, with the aim of assisting with the resolution of personal and work related problems which may affect quality of life or work performance – Sullivan Nicolades Pathology
  • Annual Elite Awards, where staff are selected for outstanding performance, and rewarded with a trip overseas – Wattyl, Darwin
  • Membership to a Golf or Sporting Club of your choice – Bishop Brothers, PNG
  • Staff fishing trips – Action Mining Services, Perth
  • Fresh fruit and a coffee machine in the kitchen – Employment Office