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Graduate Recruitment – How Did We Get Into Such a Mess and How Can We Fix It
July 15th, 2008
The world of business is so different from fifty years ago. One big change is WHEN our smartest young people enter the workforce - they are MUCH older. But how we bring graduates into the corporate more...
So what do Gen Y want?
July 15th, 2008
Well, what we all want from jobs, but they actually expect it and walk without it. Accused by Boomers with being demanding and fragile, it’s more that they value feedback and input. It’s not that t more...
Sue - the Tragedy of the Graduate Everybody Wanted
July 15th, 2008
Sue was the one everybody wanted. Definitely someone ‘most likely to succeed’. Talented, smart, great academic results, ambitious, mature, organised, sociable and she loves her touch rugby team. Ju more...
Sue’s Tragedy - The Conclusion
July 15th, 2008
The Grad Most Wanted was in her 5th and final year at Uni and in April it was time to look for graduate roles. The Piranha Recruiting Frenzy really took off with huge give-aways, big functions and lot more...
The ‘Miracle’ of Graduates
July 15th, 2008
It’s amazing. Graduate from university and you are paid $50,000 or more, have a big training budget and lots of expensive management attention. 12 months earlier and all you could do was flip bu more...
The Talent Scarcity Myth – Responses to the Broadside on the Status Quo
July 15th, 2008
In February, an interview with Toby Marshall was published in Shortlist on the Talent Scarcity Myth. This is an industry magazine, and it drew a lot of Comments as for many in the industry, the belie more...
The Talent Scarcity Myth
July 15th, 2008
Most business people believe there is a talent crisis. Why? Because every professional conference in Human Resources or Retention or Recruiting, starts with a version of: * Talent is scarc more...
The Under 30s Disloyal, Greedy Scum Bags
July 15th, 2008
What’s your view of younger workers? Our research shows most employers think they are disloyal, demanding, impatient job hoppers (and that’s ignoring the expletives). Positive (?) comments include more...
Why New Graduates are Just Like Young Puppies?
July 15th, 2008
Brains like mush, eager to please and boy they sure want to have fun! Last year the Government commissioned research on how employable Graduates were. The answer was: not very. But why? The reas more...
What the Role of a Recruiter Blo.dy Well Should Be! And Will Be One Day
July 15th, 2008
It’s a hot February night in 1994 and a bunch of recruiters are drowning their sorrows in a bar overlooking the Sydney Opera House. It had been a long day at a Human Resources conference where more...