One of the common challenges for all businesses these days is employee retention. A recent survey conducted by Australian Human Resources Institute revealed the average level of employee turnover amounted to around 16%. This percentage is indeed quite high, and more than two-thirds of the respondents...
If you're looking for a change and have a couple of companies at the back of your mind that would fall into the category of the dream job, keep them on your radar and also look for means to be on their radar, prior to...
Having bad work habits is not an abnormal thing! In fact, we all do have some bad habit or the other. Although having bad habits does not label a person on being 'terrible', it does reflect badly upon an individual when it comes to his...
To understand the primary differences between knowledge, skills, and abilities, try to answer this question: Do you know how to cut meat? It seems to be a rather simple question, doesn't it? But on reflection, you pretty quickly can distinguish between ‘knowledge’ and ‘skills and abilities’! In other...
The Human Resources (HR) as a domain is unfortunately still not very clear even to CEOs, employees, and hiring managers from a perspective in terms of its role in the overall business, compliance, and from an employee perspective. In other words, HR has a major...
Although it is a known fact that all successful people have career goals in their lives, yet there are times when you may struggle in making the desired progress in your career. You may already have a career with a lucrative position. However, it is not...
Research shows that high potential employees, or Hi Po, numbers among a company’s greatest resources. Nurturing leaders in-house eliminates the need to recruit externally to fill many key positions while lowering training costs and reducing turnover rates for recent recruits who don’t match the company’s...
Succession planning is one aspect of talent management that identifies and develops employees within an organisation with potential, in order to fill in key positions as and when they become available or vacant. Succession planning has evolved over the years and it is constantly evolving...
You may or may not have heard of Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream…!”. Whether you have or haven’t, the point coming across is each and every person on this planet has a dream. Some dreams are smaller but simple or bigger but...
Remuneration can be a challenging subject for employers and employees to deal with. How does the rest of the year look for each party?...
