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Post-Covid – Part-time?

There’s a lot of speculation around how workplaces may change post-covid, primarily focused around physical changes to spaces (such as a reversion from open plan offices), through to an increase in remote working. Whilst I’m sure that both of these will play out to some degree, an overlooked consequence of our covid isolation maybe a increased shift to part-time arrangements. Many...

Do you remember your first day? How to onboard effectively

Do you remember your first day at your job?   Maybe you don’t remember the specifics, but you probably remember the feeling. Maybe everything was easy, your manager showed you around and you didn’t do much. Maybe you felt like you’d been thrown in the deep end. Maybe you did a mountain of paperwork and sat around doing...

CoVid-19

Planned Resources have a social responsibility to play our small part in minimising the spread of CoVid-19 in order to protect the more vulnerable members of the community. Where it has been approved by the host client (either as a separate agreement or as part of a broader contingency response) temps are allowed to work from home. Temps undertaking work from home will be asked to create a...

“Leaders vs Leadership” Workshop

Please join Planned Resources in partnership with Positive HR for the first event of 2020! With guest speaker Bernard Desmidt (www.bernarddesmidt.com) we welcome you for a round table discussion and workshop on Leaders Vs Leadership and ‘distributed leadership’ – leadership is no longer a designation but a perspective: everyone, everywhere and always is now called and looked upon to lead....

Work – Life Balance – Not Quite Zen

The “Balance” bit of Work Life Balance has always been a term which has eluded me.  A bit like peoples perfect Instagram shots, my life never quite seems like that.  Companies happily tweeting about great new work/life policies, with this smiling staff adding shots to their LinkedIn of what a great morning coffee their having whilst...

Applying from overseas

A combination of lifestyle and a relatively buoyant market compared to some nations, Australia continues to be an attractive proposition for many.  With LinkedIn, on-line job portals, email and Skype.  On the face of it, its never been easier to move Down Under but without a deliberate and strategic approach to your Oz-job search,...

Leaving Because of Bad Hygiene?

As a recruiter we spend a large part of our week catching up with candidates.  One of the things that we establish is what’s making them talk to us in the first place, or conversely what’s making them want to leave their current employer. Not trained psychologists, it seemed to us that candidates typically fell into one of two...

Is working in government Utopia?

For those who haven’t seen it, Utopia is an ABC comedy/satire show that follows the day-day goings on of a fictional government department, set up to “deliver big projects”, projects – Sydney-Melbourne Fast Rail, 2nd Sydney Airport and cross city tunnels all get proposed and subsequently botched by a mixture of politics,...