News

Last month, we covered off how to write a compelling job ad, now it's time to start thinking about where to place it. Where you specifically place the ad will depend on who your ideal candidate is, so keep i...

Hiring is hard. General Managers know it. Partners know it. HR knows it. School principals know it.  Hiring is hard because both sides are in the dark. Not only is it expensive, time consuming and inherently...

Writing a job ad or posting is just like writing any advertisement. If you take the analogy that the job is your product and the job seekers are your customers, you need to make a compelling case for why the...

For many accounting & finance employers, a job advertisement calling for highly skilled, tech-savvy candidates with stellar tertiary credentials to match would be the bare minimum for recruitment standar...

As Manager, you’re probably used to working with people from all walks of life, but as you likely already know, difficult people can negatively impact team performance and morale and make your job a nightmar...

Trent McLaren, Head of Accounting at Practice Ignition, a Sydney based start-up says the best way to understand how to retain your staff or keep them engaged is to understand the reasons why employees leave....

If you sit in the ‘winging-it’ camp, you’re losing out on an opportunity to align staff skillsets to projects & long-term goals. In the attached flowchart, we’ve outlined the key steps you’ll need to fol...

How well do you treat your grad applicants? The last year of university is stressful, for the students … and their parents. Over the last few months both my daughters, in their final year of studies, have be...

Even though hiring managers do a great job preparing for the interview, putting a lot of thought and effort into interview questions and comparing candidates, at the end of the interview, they fail to ask TH...

Accountants handle a wide range of privileged and sensitive data in their daily tasks. And because they work with numbers that can have repercussions on bonuses and stock prices, they may face ethical issues...