Category: The People and Culture Office

Are you recruiting for the culture you want or the culture you have?

You can teach a candidate the extra skills they need to excel at the job, but you can’t change their personality. Recruiting for cultural fit, also known as values based recruitment or behavioural based recruitment. While some of us have been doing it for years it has become a buzz term in certain sectors recently […]

Is the ability to engage & motivate Millennials the elusive unicorn?

Millennials, boy they cop some flack in the media don’t they, but is it all justified? First of all, just who are the millennial generation? There are some varying parameters but most seem to agree it is the generation born between 1981 – 1996, so those aged between 22 to 37 in 2018 – a […]

But what do you ACTUALLY do?

But what do you ACTUALLY do? I don’t know a single HR person who hasn’t been asked this question at least once. More than just hiring & firing, HR is an integral component of any business looking to succeed. Human Resources is the function in an organisation that manages all employees and ensures maximum engagement […]

Minimum pay increases & how they affect your business

On 1 July 2018 all employees under both the Federal & State pay systems will receive an increase to their minimum rates of pay. Last week the WA Industrial Relations Commission increased wages by $18 dollars a week, whilst the Fair Work Commission increased wages for Federal system employees by $24.30 per week. So how […]

Is absenteeism an employee problem or a cultural one?

Each year businesses lose over $3,600 per employee to absence. Whether it comes down to the flu, lunch breaks that are just that bit too long, or the time honoured tradition of “chucking a sickie to go to the tennis” absenteeism adds up. With absenteeism rising 7% since 2010 understanding and counteracting the reasons staff […]