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Our 10 Step Recruitment Guide

We’ve hired over 100 employees and swear by this process. We thought you’d benefit from knowing our secrets too, so here is our 10 step hiring guide.

Staff Management | Termination

How to Avoid the Christmas Party Pitfalls

There are a number of things you need to keep in mind when planning the work Christmas party. It’s everyone’s favourite time of the year…except if you’re in HR.

Small Business | Training and Development | WHS

WHS Guide – Can Your SME Afford Non-Compliance?

What’s most important is that your system works for your organisation. It’s up to you to decide how to manage a safe and healthy workplace, and to put your plan into practice.

Recruitment and Hiring | Small Business

Recruitment – Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

If you need to recruit someone, you need to know that they’re going to fit in with the culture of your business. But how do you know what this is? Businesses have many different cultures, there are buzz words such as high performing, dynamic and vibrant but it always comes down to a bit more than that, and recruiting for that right ‘fit’.

Recruitment and Hiring

Hiring for Attitude or Skill?

Right from my early days in HR I have always been an advocate for hiring for attitude and training for skill. I strongly believe that even the highest of achievers will fail with a poor attitude, bringing the company down with them at the same time.

What Does a HR Advisor Do?

HR is often misunderstood, we pulled together the research on what a HR Advisor actually does.

Performance Management and Reviews | Small Business | Staff Management | Training and Development

What’s the Link? Training & Performance Reviews

As we approach the end of financial year pay review most employees are expecting some sort of pay rise. As HR professionals we tend to start thinking about the Performance Review Process.

Recruitment and Hiring | Small Business

5 Reasons Your Small Business Needs Job Descriptions

We all know that we’re supposed to have job descriptions for everyone that works for us right? But why do we need them and why are they so important?

Recruitment and Hiring | Small Business

Before You Hire – Know The Rules

There are many things you need to consider before you take the decision to hire any employee including financial reasons, size of the business, expected change in company billables and of course Human Resources issues!

HR Checklists | Small Business

7 Essential HR Checklists for Small Business

When things change, or we’re stressed, we forget the basics. Now I’m a pretty process-driven person and I hate it when I forget something. I find checklists give me structure and when things get busy I can just go back to the checklist and know that I won’t miss anything important.

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Our 10 Step Recruitment Guide

How to Avoid the Christmas Party Pitfalls

WHS Guide – Can Your SME Afford Non-Compliance?

Recruitment – Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Hiring for Attitude or Skill?

What Does a HR Advisor Do?

What’s the Link? Training & Performance Reviews

5 Reasons Your Small Business Needs Job Descriptions

Before You Hire – Know The Rules

7 Essential HR Checklists for Small Business

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