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Executive Searching – A Headhunter’s Perspective
Executive search is a type of headhunting that focuses on filling very senior positions within a business. Typical roles appointed by executive search are Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Financial...
What Sort of Positions are Suited to Headhunting?
Headhunting is a highly involved process that can involve significant amounts of time, effort and expenditure. For this reason, the technique is generally used only by leading businesses seeking to fill senior roles by searching for industry specialists with unique...
Specialist Recruiting Tips for Medical Roles
If you work in management within the medical industry, it’s likely that you’ll need to recruit new staff fairly regularly. As in any field, the way you approach the hiring process will either make your job easier or more difficult further down the line. It is vital...
Re-Hiring Your Previous Staff and What this Means for Your Business
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a serious effect on most businesses, particularly those engaged in the retail, travel and hospitality industries. Many of them have had to furlough a significant number of employees — putting them on unpaid leave, often with government...
Protecting your Workplace from Future Outbreaks
The COVID-19 outbreak has focused many owners’ and managers’ minds on the way they run their businesses. The threat has been emphasised by the increase in globalisation that has helped the spread of the pandemic. Although the threat is diminishing in some places, the...
Hiring New Employees to take Advantage of New Conditions
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the biggest disruption to economies of Australia and the world since the 1940s. It will take many years for economic activity to return to previous levels. Even as life gets back to normal, it will be a different normal to the...
Hiring in a Post-COVID Landscape
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone’s lives, whether or not they have fallen victim to the virus. A serious recession is now virtually inevitable and this is likely to have a significant effect on the jobs market. Many employees have been temporarily laid off...
Re-Tooling for a Post-COVID Workplace
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenging experience for companies and people alike however, even though the effect is diminishing for the time being and some workplaces seem to be returning to normal, it is likely that the workplace will not be the same as it was...
Comparing Candidates: Apples and Oranges
One of the biggest mistakes employers make when trying to assess someone for a particular role is the tendency to comparing candidates without a system for assessing and comparing people. This leads to each candidate being assessed on different grounds and they find...
10 Questions to Ask in Your Job Interview
Why Ask the Interviewer Questions? Job interviews cause anxiety. Usually, the focus is on answering questions and when the candidate is asked if they have any questions, many candidates often answer a simple ‘no’. However, asking questions of the interviewer is an...
Illegal Questions in Job Interviews
Job interviews serve a very important function – to ensure that the candidate is the best suited for the role on offer – but there are questions considered illegal and should not be asked of a candidate. How Can Questions Be Illegal? Your questions of...
Casual or Permanent Employees
Recent Court Cases About Casual Employees Two cases with major implications on casual employees have been through the courts in the last few years. The first case in 2018[1] determined that even if someone was initially employed on a casual basis, if that person...
Contractor or Employee
Businesses are always looking for ways to save money and sometimes, that includes changing the way things are classified. Here, we discuss pitfalls of classifying employees as contractors, and how getting it wrong can lead to needing to defend yourself in...
What Could Happen in the Workplace After Lockdown?
In Australia we are now seeing the end of the lockdown phase, but what will happen in the workplace after lockdown? Lockdowns have led to dramatic changes in the way people work, if they can work at all. Lockdowns have meant that people have been either: Stood down...
EQ – What Is It?
EQ or ‘emotional quotient’, is a term coined to describe emotional capabilities. The term compares to the better-known IQ or intelligence quotient’ which attempts to measure and create a score of an individual’s intellectual capability and then compare it to the...
Employment in a Post COVID Newcastle
COVID has created havoc across the planet affecting the community’s health, causing death, and economic turmoil. Newcastle is no different and has suffered as a result of the new virus afflicting the world. While Newcastle City is looking a little better now, taking a...
Medical malpractice – Is the clinic liable?
GP's are human and can make mistakes and may be accused of medical malpractice - but can the clinic be held liable for the GP's error? An essential part of day-to-day practice management is risk management. When your day-to-day business involves the care and...
The social elements of working in a medical practice, help or hindrance?
When it comes to maintaining good medical practice, the first and foremost priority of a practitioner will always be to deliver the utmost standard of patient care, regardless of the setting. However, as with any working environment, medical practice offers routes to...
The Challenges of Finding Doctors for General Practice and How to Overcome Them
General health practitioners breathed a sigh of relief when Dr. Tony Bartone was elected President of the Australian Medical Association in May 2018. He is the first GP in four years to take the position and many GPs see it as a positive step towards correcting the...
Headhunting and why you should consider using it.
According to the Oxford dictionary, headhunting is a noun meaning: the practice among some peoples of collecting the heads of dead enemies as trophies. the activity of identifying and approaching suitable people employed elsewhere to fill business positions. In our...
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Suite 3, Level 27
1 Farrer Place
Sydney, NSW 2000
1800 345 600
admin@schwardrecruit.com.au