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Mark Murphy – Chairman of Leadership IQ – tracked 20,000 new hires across 312 USA businesses. Within the first 18 months of starting 46% FAILED! (were fired or had unacceptable performance reviews). On the other hand, only 19% will achieve unequivocal success. Clearly with the high costs of hiring, induction, training, poor morale and lost sales, the bottom line effect when ...

Many organisations engage recruitment consultants or agencies to source candidates for them. While there is an abundance of recruitment companies out there unfortunately not all of them operate in the same manner. In order for you to get the most out of your experience in meeting with a recruiter to assist you find your next role you might find the following useful: Be selec...

The results of the 2013 Trak and Scarlett Recruitment, “Fashion and Retail Staff Turnover Report” show some interesting trends in the Australian employment market. Staff turnover was measured by calculating the number of terminations for the full year, divided by the end of year headcount. Data collected for this survey was for the period ending June 30, 2013. Respondents in...

‘Electric’ and ‘totally awesome’ best describes the atmosphere at ANZ Stadium as I sat in the best seat in the house amongst 84,000 noisy State of Origin fans. Queensland have won the best of 3 series every year since 2005 – amazingly before Facebook or the IPhone existed! But after 80 minutes, June 18 saw NSW produce a 6 – 4 score line and turn 9 years of losing into a very...

Day 1 We have just completed our 1st day in Jaclyn’s home town of Seattle, it has certainly been confirmed that they are the home of the “big box”. A visit to REI (outdoor recreation and sports gear) was unbelievable, to say the least. With a depth in range that matches the customer experience – both of which are complemented with some of the best Visual Merchandising you’ll...

Day 0 Spent the day in the Napa Valley which was breathtaking. Among the many vineyards we sampled, the pick was definitely the Hess Estate. Donald Hess was just 20 when his Dad died and was forced to take on the family business which revolved around a beer brewery in Switzerland. In the 1960’s he anticipated the surge in demand for bottled water, so Vaiser Water was born. V...

With many smaller retail companies and fashion houses being too small to have their own executive HR team, many companies run the risk of not knowing what they don’t know. Bullying law changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) have been effective as of 1st January 2014, but what does this mean for you and your business? What are the risks and possible costs? In summary the cha...

Let me start by saying this blog has no real lesson about retail or fashion, however it is about an interesting and exciting month I’ve just experienced with some high profile retailers… It all started some time back when I attended a retail leaders dinner in Melbourne and a group of 10 of us decided to buy into a yearling at the Magic Millions Race Sales. Although I grew up...