With a younger new group of job seekers, often known as the Millenials or Generation Y, now entering the job market, human resources (HR) managers will have to adopt new approaches to recruit and retain the staff of the future, according to Mark Gray, head of specialist HR technology and marketing firm Graylink. Not only [...]
Mark Gray, of recruitment technology company Graylink, tells Penny Haw how job seekers and those looking to hire are increasingly finding each other online. From The Business Day, 9th Dec 2008 FORGET the credit crunch, what about the career crunch? A survey of graduates and students conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers last month found that 81% were [...]
Recruitment campaigns must appeal to Generation Yers — who see the working world as their personal smorgasbord, writes Margaret Harris The new generation of job seekers do not respond in the same way as previous generations to recruitment drives, so recruiters need to plan and execute their strategies to attract them or risk being ignored. [...]
Can an elaborate employment branding strategy be successful if managers suck? Probably not, which is why leadership is closely linked to successful employment branding and employee relationships. The implications for any business are potentially far-reaching. Talent, says HR Future Publisher Alan Hosking, resides in the top 20% of a company’s employees who, by their skills, [...]
The communication styles and job expectations of Generation Y – those born between 1980 and 2000 – are totally different from those of previous generations, and prospective employers who want to attract school leavers and graduates now entering the workforce need to shift their thinking or risk losing talented candidates, according to Mark Gray, head [...]
Get HR right and you will prosper. Get it wrong and you won’t. What could be simpler? But few get this balancing act right. If anyone thought the problem of human resources had been solved by technology, a quick look at the Los Angeles district last month would show otherwise. Some 5 000 teachers and [...]
