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hiring: 4 less obvious reasons to get it right the first time
Hiring people is an essential part of professional life, yet it doesn’t always work out the way we wanted. At first glance, it can seem an easy task – in reality, there is a jungle of pitfalls waiting for the unready (or just plain busy) hiring manager.
READ MORE20+ ways to improve your hiring strategy tips# 1 & 2
At Stone, we are on a mission to improve the hiring experience. For our clients, that means lower costs, better quality of hires, less wasted management time, easier lives and great results. Each week, we will be expanding on this mini series and sharing our top 20 employee-hiring steps that we feel are paramount to […]
READ MOREhiring for growth
Introduction ‘Our people are our greatest asset’. Most leaders will tell you this without hesitation; an organisation is defined by the people working in it, so it follows that any sustainable growth requires a significant investment of time and effort in the planning and hiring of new talent. At Stone, we have worked with […]
READ MOREresponding to covid-19
Covid-19 has dramatically impacted everyone in such a compressed timeframe that many companies are understandably struggling to react. We recently sat down with Chris Andrews, Director at Stone, to discuss the operating challenges facing Stone’s clients (and Stone themselves), as well as any takeaways worth sharing in this unprecedented situation. How is this situation different […]
READ MOREyour next sales superstar
Everything is for sale As a young genius entering the recruitment market, I announced to the boss that I didn’t want to recruit salespeople. My reasoning? The market was too small. By way of response, he asked me to point at something that had NOT been sold. What about the desk? Or chair? Or the […]
READ MOREmanaging your personal brand
Introduction We all have a professional brand value – how we are viewed by our peers, team, managers. Some people are intuitively good at managing their brand; many struggle to see the value in proactive ‘personal’ brand management (‘my work should speak for itself’). The fact is, we cannot stop others assigning a perception to […]
READ MOREthe future of recruitment
Where is this recruitment game heading? 2010-2020 The $12 billion* Australian recruitment industry has seen massive changes in the last decade, but two factors stand out for me – easier, cheaper finance (great for building a contractor base) and more accessible technology. These were the game changers – they levelled the playing field. The result […]
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