Ensuring the BestFit placement of candidates is fundamental to Chandler Macleod’s and understanding the business environment a candidate will be placed in is key to delivering on this.
Chandler Macleod undertakes extensive research to ensure we are aware of the motivators for candidates and the industries we service.
Social Media – The Future of Strategic Sourcing?
It’s often tempting to stick with the “tried and true” and focus simply on traditional and proven ways of sourcing talent. However, with Australia’s unemployment rate sitting at 4.9 percent, and many of the best candidates already in employment – not to mention that the number of workers retiring is expected to exceed the amount of workers entering the labour force by 2021 – implementing an integrated and strategic sourcing strategy that takes both traditional and emerging techniques and media into consideration is key to attracting interest from both active and passive talent, which has never been more important to maintain the supply of available labour.
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Why is engagement so disengaging?
Engagement or disengagement?! I spent hours filling out the form and never heard anything back. Nothing changed...
Anonymous employee - ASX listed Company
Organisations invest heavily in engagement, but what are they really getting in return? There is no denying that engagement has a positive effect on the individuals that experience it as well as the organisation more broadly. Organisations with high levels of engagement subsequently have increased levels of...
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Chandler Macleod Technology - IT Industry Insights 2011
Money talks, it appears, in the world of IT talent attraction and retention. In a market increasingly characterised by competition of top performing talent – for employers, preferably on a permanent basis – the need for clear alignment between IT employers’ recruitment and retention practices and the job motivations of employees they seek, is essential.
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Is your organisation killing you? Is stress killing your organisation?
The topic of stress in the workplace is well known – people know that stress can affect their health and wellbeing, they know that it can affect their productivity. Furthermore, often are aware that their company has a ‘policy’ in place to ‘manage’ it, e.g. work / life balance policies and employee assistance programs. But to what extent is anything actually done about it?
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Australian Talent Management Post GFC
The world of Talent Management has changed. The Global Financial Crisis has had a profound effect on businesses across the developed world, not only in the preparedness of organisations to invest in their talent, but also in the way they go about it.
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Grabbing the Steering Wheel on Organisational Culture
Culture is defined as the collective "way of living or being" that arises from any sustained or ongoing interaction between human beings. In other words all ongoing human interaction leads to some form of cultural outcome.
So what does this mean for business?
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Executive Assessment
Executive rates of failure continue to progress at an unacceptable level; estimates range from 20-60% in the first 18 months. Around a third of CEO turnover is forced and in Australia, despite a relatively buoyant response to the Global Financial Crisis, forced turnover is higher than in Europe and North America. Over the past decade, the amount of CEO turnover linked to infighting with the Board has more than quadrupled.
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