Our last update on the WHS recruitment market was written at the beginning of 2016. Has much changed? We reported that 2015 was a turbulent year for a number of health and safety executives as many group roles were being squeezed out of structures. Pleasingly, this...
Psychological testing is now more the rule than the exception in most recruitment and selection processes. We attribute this to their known ability to objectively measure job candidates against the same criteria and to provide a generally fair and equitable comparison of similar candidates that...
Some of you probably want to forget 2015. It was a turbulent year for a number of health and safety executives, with many group roles being squeezed out of structures, takeovers meaning “we don’t need two of you” and those a level below, having to...
In years gone by, a typical job-seeker’s Saturday morning would be spent reading the paper and circling each job ad that took their fancy. Companies and recruitment firms alike paid ridiculous money to have their job ads on the first 8 pages and ad agencies...
It is really disappointing how poorly many large corporates are treating their job applicants. Several executive candidates we work with tell stories of not having their applications acknowledged, not having telephone calls returned or even worse, hearing nothing after being interviewed multiple times....