This 2 minute excerpt highlights Hunter Recruitment Group’s ability to source people that deliver holistic fit. We go beyond the “just fill the job” mentality and when we discover candidates that truly fit an organisation and it’s trajectory we make more meaningful placements
To hear the full podcast with Salena Avard from Kis Marketing, follow the links on the right hand side of this post via iTunes, Spotify or Soundcloud. It is an inspiring Career Conversation that explores her career path and what it means to find true work life balance.
If you would like to find out how HRG can assist your business through better recruitment strategies then Start A Conversation with us today.
Client: We need an administration/accounts officer for 2 days a week.
HRG: Great lets make it 3 days
Client: ?
HRG: 2 days a week with 7.5 hour days = 15 hours a week – 3 days x 5 hours (9am- 230pm with 0.5 hour break) = 15 hours per week – same investment but potentially much higher engagement
Then we do what we always do and find the best fit
This little tweek in thinking has lead to a high number of amazing placements by HRG over the past decade. For the business they get a dedicated employee they can grow with and for the employee it is meaningful work that suits the hours that the return to work mum value so highly.
HRG recognise that being a return to work mum is an individualised process, each mum has different ideas about how work life balance looks.
In our office we have our Admin and Accounts guru Amy that works the school hours 5 days a week and we have our Recruiter extraordinaire Laney who works 3 days in the office and a half day from home (we have embraced tech) and it works for our employees and for our business.
With recent advertising and our brand really drawing great, highly skilled mums looking for casual / part time hours that suit, we have a high number of excellent admin and accounts candidates ready for work
So if you need a dedicated, loyal, high calibre addition to your workforce then Start a Conversation with Laney from HRG today
Hunter Recruitment Group is excited to announce that they will be exclusively recruiting in the Hunter Valley for Hume Community Housing
Hume enters the Hunter Valley region after securing over 2,200 properties to manage in the Community Housing space in Maitland and Port Stephens.
This project commences in late April so keep an eye on our website for individual job advertisements, or if you would like to submit an expression of interest simply click on the apply now button below or call for a confidential conversation on (02) 4936 6537.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST YOU TO HIRE THE WRONG PERSON?
At HRG we recently had a role we were trying to fill for a client in professional services. It is in a very tight market and a candidate presented with what looked to be a great skills and potential culture fit. However, at interview our trained consultant wanted to gain more insight into their background. We didn’t follow the usual reference procedure of most SME’s or others in our game; just call the one person at the bottom of the resume. We dug a little deeper and used our network to gain valuable information to assist with this potential hiring decision.
We walked away from proceeding with this candidate and in the end saved the client some potential employment headaches.
If it’s not a great fit, then HRG are happy to keep working to find the right person. Recruitment for us is not all about getting paid.
Our work is really important and we take pride in it, sometimes the true value is in the one you don’t fill.
In SME’s hiring the wrong person will be a very costly exercise. The effects are multilayered. We’ve delved into this to help you understand the impact it can have on your business.
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Many business owners and managers don’t fully appreciate the financial burden the wrong person can have on a business. The Australian reported that a bad hire can cost a business 2.5 times the employee’s salary. So, an employee earning a $60k salary can end up costing $150k as a result of salary and benefits, then the double handling of necessary advertising, time consuming interviewing and recruiting, and education and training
CULTURE
If your new hire isn’t the team player you’d hoped for, you have a problem. A fragmented team is catastrophic in terms of staff morale. If a new employee is failing to meet expectations, the other teammates often have to pick up the slack. There is potential for this situation to lead to bitterness amongst the team. Similarly, if the new hire is simply not a good cultural fit, this can lead to tension and unrest.
OUTPUT
Productivity is reliant on harmonious teams. A bad hire can expose you to being unable to service your clients to the standard they expect while at the same time other team members are stretched to capacity with a heavier work load. The effects of a bad hire can extend beyond their tenure too – it often takes time for remaining employees to recover from a “bad egg. A recent survey on the topic of recruitment, Smart Company reports that 21% of respondents had “lost clients or good staff members” as a result of a bad hire they had made.
If you are a small business that struggles to get this right, refine your recruitment tactics today to make the right investments. Start a conversation with Hunter Recruitment Group today.
Hunter Recruitment Group is excited to announce that Laney Jordan has started with our business as a Recruiter. Laney is well known in our region and passionate coffee lovers will remember her as the owner and smiling face of Slices then East Village Deli Café.
Laney brings her passion and knowledge of small business, Maitland and helping people to the HRG brand.
After selling her business & the growth of her family Laney has embarked on a new career path post the café and was working in the government recruiting space until the opportunity to join the HRG team presented.
Possessing great people skills coupled with her knowledge of the local market Laney has hit the ground running and is currently immersed in sourcing great employees for local business through Hunter Recruitment Group’s Permanent, Temporary and Temp2Perm solutions.
“Laney fits our business so well, she is people focused, passionate about helping and just loves having deep conversations with employers and potential employees alike. Her positivity and energy really fit our brand and we can’t wait to watch her grow as part of the HRG family” – Craig McGregor Managing Director of Hunter Recruitment Group.
So, if you are an Employer looking for your next great employee or an individual seeking your next positive career move – Start a conversation with Laney today
“Employee underperformance can be incredibly costly, especially when it isn’t properly dealt with. Know how to handle it correctly and stay within the law.”
“Unfortunately, employers will often delay approaching underperforming employees, as the task of confronting them may seem difficult – and potentially perilous if the manager is unsure of how to avoid legal risks.
However if you don’t act quickly to address underperformance, you may not only be failing your organisation and your team, but also the poorly performing employee.
It is the employer’s responsibility to set standards of performance in the workplace and if an underperformance problem is left unresolved, it can dampen the morale of other workers and the company as a whole. Plus, managers who overlook underperformance may be viewed unfavourably.
Any underperformance concern needs to be tackled head on. But simply being proactive is not enough.
Strict laws govern exactly how you must handle underperforming staff. Veer outside of the law during any part of the management process and you can leave yourself liable to huge financial and legal penalties.
If you mismanage an employee’s termination, the cost of merely defending an unfair dismissal claim can be tens of thousands of dollars. And unfair dismissal claims are at an all-time high, with over 33,000 claims lodged in the 2016–2017 financial year alone. On top of that, with the rise of lawyers offering no-win, no-fee services to their clients, the success rate of employers defending unfair dismissal cases is now lower than ever, below 40%. In this last financial year, the Fair Work Commission reported over 7000 settlements that involved money, including over 30 where the employee was awarded a payout in excess of $40,000.”
Luckily at HR Group we have a team of professionally trained consultants who have years of experience in this field that can help guide you through these often challenging times. For more information contact our friendly team on (02) 4936 6537 or email craig@hrgroup.com.au
