Latest News - Human Resources - Australia

More and more businesses book meditation courses for their employees to reduce stress, increase concentration, enhance productivity and ultimately create a better workplace.

Australian magazine producers, SA Informer have launched a staff magazine division which will manage the production of internal magazines for businesses throughout Australia.

In today's fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, effective time management is critical to both individuals and organisations. Most of us are working longer hours, but are we working as efficiently and effectively as we can?

The IE Business School in Madrid and the global website ExpatWomen.com join forces to announce scholarships into IE's 2010 Advanced Management Programs.

A change in global financial circumstances necessitates a demand for innovation, improved customer service & sophistication. This may in fact create more PULL to get women onto Boards than any federal legislation designed to PUSH women there.

Reputable budget domestic and international airline brand Jetstar recruits the project management expertise of PM Partners group to reinvigorate their existing business model to get them through competitive times.

Ensuring Return on Investment of each training dollar is more important than ever.

Industry: Human Resources Press Release Summary: Too often management training and development is left to the province of HR or Training Specialists when in reality line management has an important part to play.

WorkCoverSA has had an increase in RTW rates since 2007 and are now closer to the national average. This correlates directly with a decrease in the number of injured workers reporting that someone in the workplace made their return to work harder.

As the Global Financial Crisis ebbs, its vital that people leaders change from a micro management focus to demonstrating and using genuine leadership behaviours.

Forza International MD Mr Carl Anderson Comments on the International Recruitment Market

Finding the perfect Senior Executive with crisis management skills, a vision and understanding how to consolidate financial and human resources to pick up the pieces in a market shaken by the Global Financial Crisis.

Promax5 Pty Limited, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with ProAct Business Development LLC (USA), ProAct is a global sales consultancy specialising in helping sales organizations reach their objectives by transforming the way they sell.

Swan tafe & family day care w.a. Join forces to get worker’s skills recognised. – and get listed as a finalist in national awards program

Comcare continues to perform above the national average for many measures, including RTW rates and RTW planning. However, there are also indications that some of Comcare’s achievements may be occurring at the expense of employee-centred care.

A key component of employer branding is the development of an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) that communicates the central value message conveyed by the brand.

The recently appointed managing director of PM Partners group discusses the impact of the reduction in workforces and the subsequent increase in the demand for outsourced project management.

Despite the continued Australian national employment figure slump, Axis Recruitment opens new offices on the Gold Coast and Brisbane to service demand

Last year 28% of injured workers surveyed throughout Australia and New Zealand were not in paid employment 6 months after lodging a workers' compensation claim. With the worst return to work rates in ten years, why isn't key data accessible?

New opportunity in the Australia recruitment market

Work Email Survey to define the real problems that knowledge workers face every day with their email at work. Office workers can benchmark their email habits against the global email worker population to see if they are suffering alone.

With talk of ‘green shoots of recovery’ emerging and the doom of the ‘economic down turn’ beginning to disperse, companies need to beware. Mass voluntary turnover of your talented employees may be on the horizon!

The good news for the economy is that unemployment is unlikely to reach the projected rate of 8.5%; the question remains however, that as recovery looms will Australia have the skills capacity in the workforce to take advantage of the upturn?

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Recruitment Directory has continued its dominance in developing recruiting products for emerging technologies and social media sites. Recruitment Directory has developed a white label job search applications for the Apple iPhone.

Ask most people how they ended up in the job they’re in and you’ll normally hear an engaging story of happenstance: “I was at a dinner party and an old friend suggested I contact their next door neighbour about an opportunity...”

Heat pumps are relatively new to the swimming pool market however the technology incorporated in their operation has been used in the air conditioning and refrigeration industries for many years.

As Australia gears up to harmonise its eleven different sets of workers’ compensation and return to work legislation, a message from a visiting US expert is a welcome one.

The Stongest Magnetic Name Badge on the Market

Suite101.com, an online magazine with more than 12 years on the Web and attracting more than 15 million readers monthly, welcomes new Social Corporate Responsibility section feature writer.

Queensland based national leading name badge company www.signaladvantage.com is delighted to have won the recent contract to supply the customer facing name badges for the branches nationwide.

With the ASX creeping back above 4000 points for the first time in 2009, is business confidence being restored?

With economic uncertainty still at the forefront of our minds, how do businesses continue to grow their sales? To the young dynamic team at Power2Motivate, success stories are found each and every day through their channel partner reward system.

Adecco Australia the leading recruitment agency in Australia had received an increased in demand of highly skilled professionals from local businesses to multi-national corporations in Australia since the 1st quarter of 2009.

Adecco, Australia had strengthened its recruitment operations to meet the demands of the changing economic landscape, matching clients across the country with promising candidates they need for their business success.

Addeco Australia offers employment opportunity that meets your human resources

Jobseeker website Even It Up! is collecting information from jobseekers about what it’s like to look for work in the current economic climate.

Proposed reforms to the Accident Compensation Act have been criticised by most stakeholder groups but Dr Mary Wyatt – believes there is an opportunity to reduce compensation costs and improve health outcomes by focusing on the human face of return

Australian mining companies are facing a very different and complex set of challenges from a human resourcing point of view, than they did just 6 months ago.

Traditionally, effective non-monetary reward and recognition systems (such as points based systems) come with a substantial number of cost burdens outside of the reward items themselves.

Resume Partners founder, Michael Queally, today received a nomination for the 2009 Career Innovator Awards an event organised by Career Directors International (CDI). Queally is absolutely overjoyed with the result as it recognises years of hard work

BND Recruitment is pleased to announce the appointment of Jodie Moloney to the role of National Business Development Manager.

New website launched for international motivational speaker Ronit Baras, offering presentations and workshops on personal development and cultural diversity

Australia’s leading online employee rewards provider, Power2Motivate, has identified Australian workers as continuing high levels of generosity even during the economic crisis.

Training - the buzz word for retention strategies throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, but recent studies have shown that whilst a multi-million dollar industry has been built around vocational training, its effectiveness in the workplace is limited

Like poor Old Mother Hubbard executives and human resource managers are finding their cupboard, usually stocked full of bonuses, incentives and rewards for high performing employees is bare.

As Sunday’s 10,000 runners from the Sydney half marathon will know, completing a marathon takes incredible mental discipline, passion and an intrinsic desire to achieve what is a difficult but ultimately fulfilling goal.

The most effective and critical activity in an employer branding program has nothing to do with marketing, and everything to do with developing capable managers, according to a wide-ranging new survey from the Employer Brand Institute.

Emma Connors from Business Review Weekly commented in her article ‘Perks in Progress’ on 30 April 2009, that “extravagant incentives are on the back burner, but the best companies are devising unique ways to engage and reward staff”.

In recent press it has been reported that companies are taking drastic measures to cut costs in a bid to prevent the unsavoury task of redundancies.