HR Club Sydney

HR Club Sydney

The only constant is change

For those of you who might not know (get on LinkedIn already!), I’ve just started a new job in a law firm in Sydney, and yes it is a big change. I’ve worked at Sara Lee, then Vodafone, BOC and most recently CSIRO- and the cultures couldn’t be more different. Sara Lee (and yes we [...]

The Easter Show for HR People

Last week I went along to my very first career’s fair at Macquarie University and for a HR person who loves employer branding stuff and glossy brochures, I would liken it to the Easter Show for HR people. Yes and after a day at the show, here are the contents of my showbag. Honorable Mentions [...]

Hot off the Press! Understanding the behaviour and intention of executives in Australia

In case you haven’t heard of Destination Talent by Phillip Tusing, it’s a blog which professes to cover “Musings, riffs, rants and insights on everything talent”. Phillip is an experienced Australian Recruiter, but has worked in a number of different roles over the last nine year including analyst and marketing manager. Currently he consults to [...]

How far would you be willing to go to get a job?

So this is a guy in the U.S. and he has targeted Razorfish because he really wants to work there. Facebook advertising is quite cool in the way you can actually target the ads on really specific data on the users. You can target people based on the standard things like age,location and gender. However [...]

Special Guest Post from AER Head

I’m very excited this morning to publish this guest post from AER Head. Aer Head is a Sydney-based blogger, analyst and commentator on trends in the attraction, engagement and retention space in Australia. He is currently GAD at TMP Worldwide, Sydney, (and takes no credit for any of the work mentioned below which was managed [...]

Have you given video a go yet?

We’ve all watched something on youtube (ok perhaps not for work reasons) and we’re seeing a big shift from print media spend in recruitment advertising to the use of video online. Instead of trying to build brand presence by buying ad space in prominent newspapers, companies are giving people insight to the organisation and what [...]

The future of Graduate Recruitment and HR

I was recently interviewed by the good people at Careerhub about my role at CSIRO and what I thought the future of graduate recruitment was all about. Of course I mentioned Social Media because I’m a big fan- but primarily its because social media has the ability to personalize or humanize the whole experience for [...]

Diversity matters- HR Buzz word or real business impact?

Recently I’ve been doing some work at my organisation on; I guess you could say a diversity project. There is much emphasis on embracing diversity in today’s working environment and more specifically, there has been a prominent focus recently on gender diversity. Although it is about endorsing equity and equality for all, promoting gender diversity [...]

Learning from epic fails and making things better next time

Last year at my work we had a handful of students join us for a summer vacation scholarship program here in Sydney and also in Melbourne. Although the students seemed to have a good time, I’ll be the first to admit that there were a number of…. let’s call them key learnings. To start with, [...]

Thanks to Desired Hair, and Michael Specht for sponsoring HR Club Sydney

In the whirlwind that was last week, I didn’t get a chance to thank my sponsors for the first HR Club Sydney Event and I wanted to give them the recognition they deserved and get the details right. First and foremost, I would like to thank Alex and Laura of Desired Hair (the hair extension [...]

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