What Can We Learn From Telstra’s Job Cuts?

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 this of course, but it doesn’t make it any easier to compute if it ever happens to...
It Pays To Check Your Candidate’s Referees.

It Pays To Check Your Candidate’s Referees.

  Recently Australia’s top rating radio hosts Hamish and Andy, known for their pranks, asked a random person (James) to act as a referee for a person (Tim Barnard) who James had never met. Tim was going in for an interview and needed someone to act on his behalf....
How To Reference Check Candidates Diligently.

How To Reference Check Candidates Diligently.

image credit: http://goo.gl/4ZgQUj   Exaggeration is rife A study of 300 Australian employers found 82% of respondents believed candidates lied or exaggerated their skills and experience on their LinkedIn profiles. But hiring managers who rely heavily on...