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Tuesday


RecruiterCritic profiled in HR Leader magazine

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Monday







After one week of being established our Internal Recruiters Australia Network has quickly grown to over 100 internal, inhouse, corporate Recruiters and HR professionals who want to network, share information, ideas, industry trends, and expertise relating to Recruitment and Selection.

Most Australian businesses are staffing up again. As founder of this group I wanted to create a platform to enable our community to network, discuss, share and learn from one another on cutting edge best practice trends in recruitment and selection methodologies.

My view is that (generally speaking) the HR community needs to take a more active role in ensuring the integrity of internal selection processes. Leaving it to chance that your line managers are engaging in a rigorous selection process is like gambling on a horse race. Tell us your view.

If you an inhouse, corporate recruiter or HR professional then join our group http://linkd.in/9k5Gdw
WHAT'S BETTER THAN 100,000 FREQUENT FLYER POINTS?

Start up aggressively targets SMEs with a $1,000 Flight Centre gift voucher for using the free, easiest way to find, assess and engage the best recruiters

Have you ever calculated how long and how much it costs to rack up 100,000 points? Well unless you are flying international first class frequently you are in for a long haul. One start up is aggressively targeting SMEs with a $1,000 Flight Centre gift voucher when they use their free unbiased service to find and select the best recruiter to fill a job vacancy.

Finding the right recruiter to fill a job vacancy amongst the tens of thousands of consultants employed by more than 2,000 firms and agencies is not easy and requires time, effort, planning, a large network and often a trial and error approach, until RecruiterCritic. A free service to Australian businesses that finds, assesses and recommends recruiters that are appropriate to fill a specific vacancy.

John Millican, Director of RecruiterCritic said “ we reduce a business’s risk when choosing to engage a Recruiter or Search consultant. With a panel of industry experts we have developed a three step assessment process that is targeted to identify and assess the best recruiter to fill a job vacancy. Recruiters are assessed on their previous delivery of similar roles, their own commercial experience and qualifications, their selection expertise and the support their firm provides.”

RecruiterCritic asks for nominations of high performing recruiters amongst a network of hiring managers, human resource staff and other recruiters and places these recruiters through a thorough assessment process that includes an online registration, interview and reference checks. “There is no service, free or otherwise that offers to thoroughly interview the interviewer and identify who hiring managers should give a job vacancy to fill. We assess recruiters across a number of important areas and offer a recommendation and comparison document to our clients of two to consider to fill their vacancy”, offered Mr Millican.

RecruiterCritic only receives revenue when a recruiter delivers for its clients as it takes a percentage of the recruitment fee that a client would normally pay. “Our mission is threefold. 1. to make it simple to choose among the tens of thousands of recruiters, 2. take away the frustration of dealing with the wrong recruiter and 3. decrease the costs associated with recruitment for our clients. We only get paid if our clients get a positive outcome.” offered Mr Millican.

Simply use RecruiterCritic to find, compare and engage a recruiter or search professional for a job vacancy and RecruiterCritic will kick off your travel plans with a $1,000 gift voucher as their thanks. Visit http://www.recruitercritic.com/Freqflyer.htm for more information and to begin your search for the best recruiter or search consultant to fill a job vacancy.
OK, ERNST & YOUNG HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO ANSWER FOR...

Is it just me or is there something deeply disturbing about this recruitment video for E&Y?

Friday

HOW NOT TO USE VIDEO AS A RECRUITING TOOL

There are some great examples of organisations winning using video as a highly effective tool for attraction and Employment branding. Unfortunately, this is not one of those examples -




The highlight for me, is hearing a key selling point of becoming an employee is that "you get to crawl through buildings" hhhmmm, where do I apply?

Tuesday


Many businesses are busily planning for the new financial year. We are no different. We have our heads down, reviewing our performance, gathering data and imagining what next year will be like.

I urge business leaders to make sure that they review their employee recognition strategies too. I have people who supported us as we tightened the belts, got our heads down and did the work. There might not be budget for salary reviews or bonuses – but those who are engaged simply must be recognised for their contribution – or they will leave.

While many organisations treat employee recognition as an investment and an essential part of business strategy, a significant number of employers continue to overlook employee recognition – it is simply short-sighted.

The latest Hewitt Best Employers study involving 37,000 employees in Australia and New Zealand reveals organisations that genuinely acknowledged and recognised their employees throughout 2009 achieved double the growth in revenue (22%) than other organisations (11%). The numbers speak for themselves.


Read the rest of the article on Smart Company at http://bit.ly/rcrb14.


Wednesday


Use our free service to find the best recruiter and we'll donate $1,000 to Plan International's Haiti appeal

Free service to Australian business that interviews the interviewer donates big chunk of profit

The devastating earthquake in Haiti has directly affected 3.5 million people and killed an estimated 200,000 men, women and children. Recruitercritic has partnered with Plan Australia and will donate $1,000 to Plan Australia's Haiti appeal when you use its unbiased, free service.

Human resource departments and managers have long suffered frustrating experiences when using recruiters and head hunters to fill their business’s employment vacancies. It seems almost everyone has had an experience with a recruiter that has left a lasting negative impression according to John Millican, Managing Director of
www.recruitercritic.com.

Finding the right recruiter to fill a job vacancy amongst 33,000 consultants employed by more than 2,500 agencies is not easy and requires time, effort, planning, a large network and often a trial and error approach, unless you use RecruiterCritic.

RecruiterCritic will donate $1,000 every time you use its free service to find, assess and compare the best recruiter or search professional to fill your vacancy. That represents about 50% of the profit from the referral fee we receive from a Recruiter or Search professional when they successfully fill your business's vacancy.

Plan International Australia will ensure that this donation will help provide emergency food, water, medicine and housing for those most in need. Its easy to help others by helping your business use better judgement when engaging Recruiters. Use RecruiterCritic's free service to find, assess and recommend the best Recruiter to fill your role.

Millican, suffered the negative impacts of dealing with inexperienced, unprofessional and non-performing recruiters and head hunters in previous roles in Human Resources and General Management. “A bad Recruiter can have a disastrous effect on a business’s costs of recruitment as well as your own sanity”, according to Millican. With the help of some industry experts built an assessment process to sort the wheat from the chaff.

RecruiterCritic’s business model is that it only receives revenue when a recruiter delivers for its clients as it takes a percentage of the recruitment fee that a client would normally pay. “Our mission is to take away the frustration of dealing with the wrong recruiter and decrease the costs associated with recruitment for our clients. We only get paid if our clients get a positive outcome.” offered Mr Millican.

RecruiterCritic is a free unbiased service that finds, assesses and recommends the best recruiter or search professional to fill a job vacancy. Using RecruiterCritic reduces the risks and costs associated with engaging a Recruitment or Search consultant and rebates a generous portion of its profits back to business or a chosen charity.

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