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These Insider Secrets to Graduate Interview Success are not for your typical graduate job hunter.

But first let me congratulate you on obtaining your degree. Now with that out of the way let’s get down to real business.

The contents of this post are a departure from your typical graduate interview preparation…

5 Ways to Clean Up a Toxic Performance Management Practise For Good

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THE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN SCANDAL EXPOSÉ.

When I read about this dirty (but not-so-secret) secret, I knew I had to…

This post is inspired by a chance meeting with a fellow HR practitioner and the conversation that followed.

 It was a few Tuesdays ago, 10.30am. I was sitting in my favourite coffee shop, taking advantage of the free Wi-Fi and their not free, but delicious nonetheless, coffee.

 I glanced up from my lap top to see ‘X’, whom I hadn’t seen for a…

Still need convincing to break some rules and shake up your interview questions?

Here’s why you should.

Unicorns and Purple Squirrels

No I haven’t lost my marbles.…

Your Rookie HR Leader Guide to Surviving the First 60 Days On the Job Successfully

Congratulations, freshly minted HR Leader.

Your star has been rising as an individual contributor to the business’ HR function.

Perhaps, you…

Do You Care Enough to Upgrade Your New Employee Orientation Experience?

The clock is ticking.

It’s been a while – months, likely years. You are afraid to check.

You know it is way past its consume-by date but you are still serving it cold to your unsuspecting…

Journey to the edge of HR.

It is not a hysteria-inducing, stomach-churning helter-skelter ride.

It is not Woooooahhhh! But more of a Wooooo-Aha!

It is a controlled…

7 Smart Reasons to Quit being Busy

I am curious. Are you happy with your work?

And by happy, I mean this.

• Are you getting the results you want or your business needs?
• Are you sure that what you do adds value and has…

Leader Behaviours You Needn't Copy to Succeed

My next statement is considered sacrilegious by 3.5 billion people.…

Start Creating the HR Experience Your Business Needs Today

I hope I’m not too late.

I wanted to reach you early – before the last year’s left over projects and workload complete their strangle-hold on your inbox and your attention.

I wanted to…

“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.

You take the blue pill, the story ends.

You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how…

In this post, I will show you how to use your internal HR audit to unlock remarkable relevance and get recognised for results.

The Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM) says this.

Value Creation Audits "look more broadly at how HR's…

Easy Internal HR Audit Tips to Reduce Risk and Create Top Value

Take a moment to honestly answer these questions.

Are you ready?

What’s the condition of your HR…

Rediscover the Valuable Lost Art of Recruitment Selection Design

So here we are. You are at it again.

It never stops.

It is a need that is never satisfied.

It continues to suck time and…

5 Attention-Grabbing Candidate Attraction Tips

Does any of this sound familiar?

The recruiting Manager sends a recruitment request to HR. This is followed by an email expressing the dire need and urgency for the…

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Have you read about HR in the media this year?

In case you missed it. Here is a sample of some of this year’s headlines featuring Human…

“FEAR, that deadliest of all emotions clutching at your heart…”

Night of the Living Dead – 1968 independent film.

This is how the tale of the Terror begins.

First…

Case Study: DreamJobbing for TOMS Recruitment Campaign

Once in a while you encounter something that literally stops you in your tracks. Is recruitment campaign envy a legitimate emotional condition?

For me it meant a cup of tea paused mid-air, between my desk and my lips, as…

Revealed: 1 Steal-Worthy Persuasive Writing Technique That Converts Browsers into Quality Applicants

This article was inspired by vexed frustration. I was frustrated by a recruitment marketing campaign that failed to convert decent candidates and hobbled by a laughably minuscule recruitment budget. I realised I had to help myself do better under the…

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Here is a Shakespearean riff on the recruitment process.

The Bard: A Surprising Source of Hiring Wisdom

To those who have been mentally scarred and tortured by studying Shakespeare at some point in their school or college…