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HR Monthly: How has the recent economic downturn affected the HR functions in your organisation?

If you look at companies in the market-place at present there’s a very unusual situation occurring in the job market. Despite the economic slow down, there is a significant shortage of good candidates across most market sectors...

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 The Australian: Loyalty is the holy grail of retention strategies

WE are experiencing once-in-a-generation global market conditions. Yet despite the looming slowdown, demand for quality candidates has not diminished, nor has the skills shortage eased.Given predictions that challenging economic conditions will persist beyond 12 to 18 months, something has to give. ...

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 BRW: Management Update - In the hunt for HRs

Listed human resources and recruitment group Chandler Macleod has launched a specialist recruitment business focusing on the HR sector. The new firm, CMHR will be headed by executive general manager Chris Le Coic, who says strong demand for HR recrutiment services reflects the continutaion of the skills shortage despite the slowing economy...

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 Human Resources: The Organisation's Corporate Strategist

Some of our organisations have placed band-aids over the term and now use People and Organisational Development, or People and Culture, or simply People. We like this, but it's not just the name that has to change.

We now live in the web-enabled Innovation Age, and our challenge is to find and develop effective 'creator workers'. Creator workers are those able to access the information within reach of all of us, but whose intuition can integrate multiple sources quickly to create something that has never been seen before. The age of the coming creator worker will be one in which the intangible assets of talent attraction, talent development, talent retention and innovation will be the critical success factors driving sustainable competitive advantage...

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