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The Candidate Experience
Now that the market is tighter, candidate experience has never been more important. Callum shares some tips to help improve the candidate experience.
Career evaluation: How to tell if it’s time to change jobs... and what to do next
When is the last time you took a moment to reflect on your career, assess where you are at, and thought about goals for the future? If it’s been a while, hopefully, this article is a timely reminder to do just that.
Attracting and Retaining Gems
If you have tried to recruit recently and found it tough going, you’re not alone. Recruiters and hiring managers are noticing a candidate shortage. Whilst there seems to be many roles to fill within organisations due to growth, restructure, or staff resignation, it’s increasingly difficult to find the talent to fill them.
Poll...Do You Think Exit Interviews Are Worthwhile
I recently wrote a blog on why exit interviews are important for both the employee and employer, when done correctly. We asked for your feedback on how worthwhile you believe they are.
The Art of The Exit Interview
When an employee decides to leave their workplace, most times there is a handshake, ‘thanks for your efforts and best of luck’. Perhaps (pre Covid) a farewell lunch or company assembly. One of the more important aspects for both the employer and employee, and one that if it is done, is usually poorly done, is to undertake an exit interview.
FIA VIC Corporate Partnership SIG, a socially distanced event
The first of many successful FIA VIC Corporate Partnerships Special Interest Group (SIG) events was delivered yesterday bringing FIA members and Corporate Partnership specialists together for learning and networking, in a mask wearing and socially distanced way.
Recruitment.... has it bounced back?
Despite the ups, downs and lockdowns, we are encouraged by the level of enquiries we receive about engaging us to lead recruitment assignments in the ‘for purpose’ sector. We note a higher demand than this time last year for leadership roles, particularly across fundraising and marketing. Does this mean recruitment has bounced back or some balance is returned?
Do you have EOFY burnout?
Burnout can arise in any sector. In ‘for purpose’ sector, we see that stress can creep into the lives of people who spend their their time working extremely hard to make a difference for vulnerable families and children, animals, cancer, medical research and other important causes that make a significant social or environmental impact.
POLL... Are you more or less likely to apply for a career change this year than prior to Covid-19?
We ran a poll on LinkedIn recently (and thank you to those who responded) around whether people are more or less likely to look for work this year. Given all the changes to workplaces and the relationships between employees and employers that occurred, it was interesting to see the results.
POLL... How do you measure career success?
Recently we saw a powerful image about measuring success. It got us thinking about how we measure success ourselves and also how our candidates and clients measure career success. We put it to a LinkedIn poll to find out.
Lyndal's Story, FightMND's Christmas Campaign
Lyndal’s Story
FightMND’s Christmas campaign is a powerful one that touched my heart, and inspired me to give. I hope it inspires you too!
Wellbeing Series Initiative... it's a wrap! Check out the poll results...
Our third and final session of our Gembridge Wellbeing Webinar series was held this week with the important topic of Burnout & Exhaustion Watch Outs, very timely given the current environment.
POLL RESULTS - How did you get your current or most recent job?
How have people in the NFP found their current role? We polled people in the sector to see how they found their current or most recent job, and the results were not what you would expect.
Recruitment Pulse… Evidence of Rising Confidence
There are positive signs, SEEK data suggests confidence and recruitment needs are slowly rising.