CAREER NEWSVirtual recruitment in the age of COVID-19
COVID-19 presents an unprecedented challenge for recruitment, with lockdown restrictions and social distancing requirements pushing many businesses to adopt virtual hiring practices.
4 Ways to Support Employees while Working from Home
Many employees constantly say how they would like it more if they could work from home, but when they get the opportunity they find out it can be quite challenging. After spending most of their work career in an office, it might be hard for them to be productive when working from home.
Just-in-time training can get youth working
Following a month focussed on our youth, we are still left pondering the perilous state of their future and that of our country. The government’s recent commitment to create an additional 2 million jobs over the next decade is simply not enough to resolve the youth unemployment crisis. Our numbers are worse than poor; 55% for those aged 15-24 are jobless. Our graduate unemployment rate of 31% is the worst in the world.
Beware employers - you can no longer discipline an employee after a resignation with immediate effect
Employees often resign with immediate effect when facing disciplinary action. Employers may be unsure whether they can continue with an intended disciplinary action? Unfortunately, the Labour Courts' decisions on this issue have not always been clear or consistent. Having gone full circle on the issue, the latest decision of the Labour Court has held that employers lack jurisdiction to discipline employees once they have resigned with imm
Thorough background screening checks vs. online searches – a digital predicament we shouldn’t be caught up in
The evolving digital world and resultant online presence of the population is no doubt changing the way people engage and how business is conducted - but also what information can be sourced online, prior to such engagement taking place.
War for talent: cease fire!
In 1997, McKinsey declared a War for Talent. Since then the world hasn’t let us forget it. In an economy where capital is abundant, competition is globally fierce, and iteration moves at the pace of lightning, they argue, “all that matters is talent. Talent wins.”
Lexmark names new president, CEO
Allen Waugerman succeeds Rich Geruson, who left the company in November 2018.
Iot.nxt appoints experienced industry veteran as chief commercial officer
John Neville was previously the head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development at Nasdaq-listed ADTRAN.