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Business Talent Sharing Portal supporting Job Stability through COVID-19
Together we can stop cutting staff during COVID-19 and create the business resilience we will need to weather this economic storm and come out fighting on the other side.
How to Prepare for the impending Economic Slowdown
Here are some quick tips on how to survive the impending slowdown and the employee underutilisation that is no doubt on the way over the next 12 months. As a business you will need to be preparing for 4 different situations that can cause underutilisation: 1. Sick Workers – heard up to 60% of the…
Opinion Piece on EY’s ‘Stop Talking About the Future of Work’
EY has just released a white paper on the Future of Work and it immediately caught my eye because the title infers that no one is doing anything about it. As someone who is building a tech platform that does support and drive the future of work, I instantly had my back up. “What do…
How to change your approach to accessing talent with BenchOn
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What Is an ‘Employee Bench’ and Why Is It Killing Your Business?
Employees in Australia and beyond, often find themselves ‘sitting on the bench’ in-between projects. The ‘bench’, in this case, is used to refer to the part of an organisation’s employees that are not actively working on any project for the time being. Although they may not be actively contributing to the output of the company,…
Why ‘Borrow’ is a key function of an Integrated Talent Strategy
I recently presented at the 2019 Australasian Talent Conference (#ATC2019) on a panel discussing what a forward leaning Integrated Talent Strategy would look like. This is an essential conversation given, as ATC put it, ‘with record talent shortages, the promise of automation, constant transformation and today’s workforce looking to engage attractive projects on their own…
The Most Innovative Approaches to Talent Acquisition in Australia Today
In a world where talent acquisition happens in short content bites on smartphones more often than in newspapers and through recruiting agencies, Australian heavy industry firms have to innovate to keep up. Hiring managers and human resources departments go beyond taking applications. If firms want to compete in an increasingly global marketplace for top talents…
BenchOn Case Study
Here at BenchOn, we also practice what we preach. We found ourselves in a situation where we needed to hire two new specialist staff quickly, yet we didn’t have the allocated cashflow to achieve it. Our only option seemed to be to let go of a non-essential staff member but we just couldn’t do that….
Enterprise Case Study
A large enterprise had won a major Government contract and required 25 procurement and contracting staff to support the project over a 12-month period. Time was tight as the project began within one week of BenchOn receiving the request. Within 18 hours, BenchOn provided the company with a prioritised list of 42 resumes from 8…