Employee Onboarding Blogs

It’s All a Matter of Perception

Career Support Reduces the Risks and Costs of Outplacement We have found that cost-effectiveness is the primary reason why most companies fail to assist former employees land on their…

Lay Off on Initiating Poorly-Planned Layoffs

Employer Career Support Responsibility Employers have an innate responsibility to provide proper, appropriate Career Outplacement Support to ex-employees in keeping with an unspoken code of decency that is increasingly rare…

All swell that’s groundswell

There’s been a recent trend sweeping the employer/employee dynamic in most businesses—a happening that’s been slowly moving en masse towards a realignment of management-worker relationships for years to come.…

Intangibles Triumph in Maintaining Employer Brand

(Sydney, Australia) – Research recently released by a local marketing manager with nearly three decades’ experience working with numerous multinational corporations as well as unemployed and underemployed individuals reveals…

What’s in a Good Name These Days?

Corporate Image and Social Responsibility. In the business world, reputation is everything. Very rare is the company that can suffer through a seemingly never ending onslaught of negative publicity…

Outplacement Support: Where Is It When You Need It?

Lack of Outplacement Support Is Damaging Your Company’s Reputation Why is it so hard for some people to do the right thing? Growing up, we’ve encountered scenarios that exhort…

Employer Brand: A Company’s Calling Card

If there’s one thing all of us carry, it’s our reputation. More than anything else, our good name, once besmirched, is incredibly difficult to recover and repair. I’m not…

No Need to Slam the Door on the Way Out? A Better Way!

In this day and age it’s becoming more common for businesses to place an extreme emphasis upon the bottom line—at the expense of thousands of workers who, in many…

Employer Attitudes to Outplacement

Between March 2012 and May 2013 I met with many Heads of HR and peer C-Suite executives across Sydney and Melbourne. For those that are unaware, these are the two…

User Generated Content Sites

User Generated Content sites. Your Employer Brand Is at Risk. User Generated Content (UGC) is not a new phenomenon. Many of us are familiar with sites that rely on UGC.…

Mental health and unemployment

At CareerSupport365, we are passionate about helping to create healthy workplaces in all senses of the phrase. Mental health may have spent many years shrouded in mystery and stigma, but…

The hidden damage of job insecurity

It’s always a sad and frustrating time when anyone loses their job but it can be just as confusing and challenging when an employee is coming to work each day…

Do you know the top 3 mistakes managers make in structured onboarding?

Starting a new job is an overwhelming time for any employee and it can be stressful for the person tasked with onboarding them into the organisation too. When onboarding is…

Is poor workplace wellness costing you millions?

A quick Google search or flick through Instagram reveals that the topic of wellness is extremely hot right now. With increasing awareness surrounding mental health, it’s only natural that many…

Remembering your people amidst mergers and acquisitions

The merge between Nine and Fairfax has been at the forefront of many people’s minds over the last few weeks. Of course, only time will tell if the merger is…

Should your organisation avoid hiring job-hoppers?

Anyone who has been involved in hiring someone new for an organisation knows that there are so many factors to take into consideration. Something that comes up for many candidates,…

Do skills really matter?

Emotions are often seen as taboo in the workplace. Whether it’s frustration, happiness, sadness or anything in between, expressing emotion is seen as something that is a little unprofessional. If…

What can we learn from Telstra’s job cuts?

Redundancies are all too common – it’s one of those unfortunate truths that, sometimes, organisations need to cut jobs in order to restructure and survive in the future. Everyone knows…

Do Your Employees Have Unmet Needs? Why Should You Care?

There are plenty of theories out there about engagement and how to keep your employees performing at their best – it’s a hot topic at the moment as a new…

The key to effective onboarding? Going back to your roots.

Over time, it has become clear that hiring for skills alone will not always yield the results everyone would like. Of course, skills are important but they can be taught…

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