Competitive Positioning in a Candidate-Poor Talent Market

In an industry such as agribusiness, it is essential that commercial companies adapt their hiring processes to source top talent to drive their business growth. One way of achieving this is to tap into a broader talent pool and in a candidate-poor talent market, this is the key to competitive positioning. We recently conducted a national…

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If You Don’t Plan, You’re Planning to Fail

If You Don't Plan, You're Planning to Fail

Once it was accepted practice to foster skills through apprenticeships, internal and external training programs, graduate programs and the like. In the 1980’s and 1990’s the unrelenting pressure to cut costs to improve the bottom line commonly resulted in a gradual decay of the training budget. A mindset emerged that when skills were required, it…

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Tapped on the shoulder by a recruiter, what do you say or do?

Tapped on the shoulder by a recruiter, what do you say or do?

We encounter mixed reactions when we reach out to people about job opportunities. Some people react negatively when tapped on the shoulder by a recruiter, for various reasons: unfamiliarity, you’re busy, you’re not interested in another job or you simply do not like recruiters. Others see it as an opportunity to verify their market value…

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Ways to Attract People to Work in Agriculture

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Agriculture has traditionally drawn its workforce from farming families, but the pool has diminished because young people attracted to farming has persistently declined since the 1970’s. The shortage of labour in agriculture applies equally to both skilled and unskilled positions. It is reported that in recent years, there are six jobs for every agricultural graduate…

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