Posts tagged "hiring and firing"

When you’re laying people off, it’s essential to do it right. Particularly when it’s in large numbers and chaotic circumstances like now.

Hiring the right talent is critical to success. But how do you know for sure that someone is the best choice when you’re limited to fleeting interviews?

When you focus on hiring processes that prioritise merit, coachability and attitude, and consciously remove unconscious bias, diversity is a by-product.

From accounting to retail, these are the skills in high demand across Australia in the first half of 2019, according to recruitment firm Hays.

It's been an extraordinary year for unfair dismissal cases as employers try to navigate the minefield of complexity that is Australian employment law.

New reports reveal that streaming giant Netflix has some very frank, and sometimes distressing, human resources policies.

A business has been ordered to rehire a worker that it sacked for spending time working on her own business during company hours.

In an environment of increasing competition, high risk and skills shortages, hiring talent is a significant challenge for most startups.

Who is meritorious, what constitutes merit, and how merit and gender targets can operate together are widely misunderstood questions.

A recent SmartCompany poll indicated 67% of business owners admit they make mistakes when hiring, and this can be costly.

According to W…

Does a staff member make you so angry you can’t hear their name without having your blood pressure increase? Here's what you can do.

A teacher sacked for delivering a lesson on the various ways the ‘f’ word can be used in a sentence has been awarded almost $17,000 after Fa…