The constant and evolving organisational landscape often sees organisations face a plethora of challenges to keep up, maintain relevance and competitive advantage. With Australia’s population ageing and facing retirement, a number of conflicts present themselves to the workplace including:
Australian businesses are facing the task of retaining talent, maintaining knowledge, and key skills and subsequently performance and workplace productivity in a tight labour market and
Age discrimination (unfortunately) is still evident, in particular during recruitment drives, with mature candidates often being overlooked for their younger counterparts.
It is an organisations best interest to ensure its leaders play a key role in retaining knowledge and skills from more mature employees, whilst recognising the benefits of hiring mature employees.
Some initiatives to do this include:
For further information on what your organisation could do to retain mature workers and reduce stereotypes, please contact Eva and her team via Email: eva@nurturehrconsulting.com.au or Phone: 02 43 125 120.
Effective recruitment is the backbone to any successful business, too often though we don’t take the time to recruit effectively resulting in disappointment and poor hires! To help you improve your recruiting, please read below the top 10 tips on effective recruitment.
Review the role you are hiring for i.e. make sure you have identifed the key duties and attributes required from the role
Be clear in your advertisement about the requirements, skills and qualifications needed for the role to effectively carry out the duties you have previously identified
Draft and review your advertisement to ensure it features the key duties, qualifications, skills and attributes. Also provide a brief overview of your organisation and its location to ensure you are attracting candidates that meet your selection criteria
Create a shortlist of suitable candidates by assessing each candiate based on your selection criteria
Organise interviews and provide candidates with at least 48 hours notice of the interview
Prepare for the interview. Develop your questions prior to the interview based on the duties and requirements of the role
Remember the interview is a two way forum – it provides an opportunity for you as an employer to gather information about a candidate whilst it provides a forum for candidates to gather information about you and your business!
Undertake reference checks
Make offers promptly – don’t waste time!
Support new employees with an induction programme to assist them in getting up to speed with your business as quickly as possible to maximise productivity and reduce costs!
