The Best Time To Hook A New Employee

Fishing - Agribusiness Recruiting - Agricultural Appointments

Are there seasons in recruitment? Just as there are seasons in nature, there are seasons in recruiting. Most employers are not likely to have given much thought about recruitment seasonality, but it is a real factor and deserves to be given some thought. For example, the best time to look for sales managers is often…

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Changing Agriculture: Reinventing the Family Farm

Family farm - Agribusiness Recruiting - Agricultural Appointments

Ever been stuck in a rut on the family farm? Do you think: we do things this way because this is how Grandad did them; the farm has been in the family for generations so I can’t change it; I feel a huge responsibility to keep this place going? Yet you know – deep down…

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Attracting Top Talent To Small or Regional Agribusinesses.

Brian holdsworth - Agribusiness Recruiting - Agricultural Appointments

With regional centres bearing the brunt of some of Australia’s largest population declines in recent years, how can agribusinesses outside the big smoke attract top talent? Nearly two thirds of Australia’s population resides in one of our greater capital cities, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics*. While the country’s population as a whole is…

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Is Automated Farming A Threat to Job Security?

Celebrating graduation - Agribusiness Recruiting - Agricultural Appointments

By Dr Ray Johnson, Managing Director Agricultural Appointments. As I have previously written, there is a digital revolution underway in Australian agriculture, now with the timely confluence of record production levels marking agriculture as one of the key “industries of the future”. But it is the digital revolution that is changing the traditional harsh image…

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Are More Women Being Employed In The Agricultural Sector?

Agribusiness Recruiting - Agricultural Appointments

By Dr Ray Johnson, Managing Director Agricultural Appointments At the Universities and agricultural colleges offering rural and veterinary courses in Australia, there has been a dramatic change in the gender balance of students over the last 25-30 years. In many instances women now make up the majority of such training courses. As I have previously…

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