Thought for the week
“Recession or no recession, corporate and IT leaders continue to see a key role for IT, especially in regard to capturing efficiencies across the enterprise. Many expect IT investments to grow soon.”  – McKinsey Global Survey

Labour Market Data
Effective recruitment planning is hard without data. Here’s the latest labour data from the ABS.

Workplace Safety Resources
A new report (using 2007 data) sheds light on the number of work related fatalities in Australia. Shockingly 453 fatalities occurred, a 9% increase from the previous financial year.   For all things workplace safety and OH&S SafetyatWork blog, written by Kevin Jones, is a must read.

Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner released the e-recruitment magic quadrant. Here’s tips on what to do with the information.

Executive Monitor
The Executive Monitor Survey is now closed. The response has been terrific. A total of 1667 participants started the survey and 1333 completed the survey in full. Already the data is revealing interesting information  about high-income earners. The full report will be available for Free in Feb 2010. If you want a copy register here.

Go Home
Today is ‘Go Home On Time Day’, a brainchild of Australia Institute which recently conducted a comprehensive study on overtime work in Australia. Are you leaving office early today?.

Academia Blues
Melissa Gregg thinks that academia is no longer a smart choice.

JobDash
Jobdash, a career management tool for IT professionals, is already capitalising on Linkedin’s new API announcement.  Jobdash can be used to  ‘track and Filter real-time Employment Offers from Twitter and LinkedIn status updates’. Our world is rapidly changing.

Web 2.0 & work
McKinsey’s QA with MIT’s Andrew McAfee on how Web 2.0 is changing the way we work

Consultant Tsunami
The rise in the number of consultants can be traced to redundancies and businesses preferring to engage experts without hiring new staff.

Career Poison
Australian women are putting off pregnancy believing it hinders promotion at work.

Source of Hire
Atlassian released data on their top sources of talent.  Craigslist is the #1 source

New Monster
High praise for Monster new resume search product. Will it be introduced in Australia?

New ways to work
Top 5 trends to watch in 2010.

Thought for the week.

“ Social networks will spread further in the workplace, taking collaboration to a new level. As the lines between professional and personal communications become increasingly blurred, IT leaders will need to incorporate enterprise social networking into their overall unified communications and collaboration strategy. Enterprise-grade versions of Facebook, Twitter and Wikis in the workplace will begin to be as common as e-mail and will change the way business is conducted. As a result, the decision-making process will be accelerated, customers will receive immediate answers and workers will be more empowered” – Verizon, Top 10 Technology Trend for 2010

The power of failure
“The lesson is that business operates by exactly the same evolutionary principles as sports or art or math or music: we have to take risks, make mistakes, screw up in order to build better brains.” A refreshing look at why mistakes plays an important role in success. Innovative companies encourage risk taking. 

Best method to select talent
85 years worth of research identifies the most successful methods to select talent.  #1 on the list – Work Sample Test.

The war for talent is back 
Australian economy is unwilling to behave according to predictions.

Navigating Office Gossips
”Don’t we have some work to do here?” escape line and other tactics. 

Collaboration workers
McKInsey identified 12 types of collaboration workers and plots future trajectories.

Thought for the week

It is time for tougher monitoring and enforcement of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act, including naming of employers who fail to comply and an enhanced role for the Fair Work Ombudsman to investigate breaches of the Act. – ACTU

Gender Gap
The Global Gender Pay report placed Australia below Sri Lanka and Trinidad in the Gender gap Index (pay inequality). Australia ranked 20th.

Is corporate recruiting broken?
Great discussion at Glassdoor

Rebuilding for growth
How do you rebuild and prepare for growth after undergoing downsizing? Fiona Webster, Randstaad provided clues (Podcast)

Five generations at work
Harvard asked – are you able to handle five generations of workers working at the same workplace? Refer generational profile (via McCrindle Research), likely the same issue faced by Australian employers.