The Federal Government has announced that employers with a good track record in bringing in temporary skilled migrants under the 457 visa scheme will in future be able to fast track their visa applications. read more
The Federal Court has declined to grant an interlocutory injunction to stop picketers harassing the staff of a labour hire company and trying to prevent on-hire workers entering a host employer's site. read more
Defence restructures HR management, starts new Job Network pilot..... Recruiters failing to develop candidate relationships..... Hippo Jobs launches with 4,000 roles.... Job Portals rolls out new niche sites. read more
A select group of invited recruitment and RPO companies have responded to a request for proposal from Telstra for the development and management of what could become Australia's largest internal recruitment team. read more
Employers will be forced to form co-operative groups to share their talent pools and candidate information in the future, according to PageUp chief executive Karen Cariss. read more
An innovative recruitment campaign for Gold Coast City Council attracted nearly 11,000 unique users to its website, generated more than 1,000 applications and filled numerous hard-to-source roles. read more
Lifting the number of Westpac employees who are successfully redeployed has been one of the outstanding achievements of Westpac's internal recruitment team, says head of Careers@Westpac, Helen O'Loughlin. read more
Employers are kidding themselves if they think they "own" the candidates in their talent pool or that it's important to have a large number of leads, says top New Zealand internal recruitment manager, Carol Brown. She told the Australian Talent Conference today that the real value in a talent pool was in the relationship the company had with those candidates. read more
The Industrial Court of NSW has ordered payment of three months' wages to a candidate who was misled about the requirements of a job during the recruitment process. read more
The high-profile launch of new job board aggregator, Myspider.com.au, looks like being squashed, after SEEK this morning formally requested the site remove all SEEK's ads and refrain from taking content from the SEEK site. read more