Thinking about burning out?
Is Your Next Holiday Destination ‘Chateau Burn Out’?
What is the key to keeping the enthusiasm and drive for your role through the tough times? How do we prevent burn out and keep a level of balance?
I guess first things first; do you recognise that you might possibly lack balance? Are words like burn out, stressed or breaking point common place in your working environment or your home?
Three Keys to Retaining High Potential Employees
Retaining high potential employees is the constant challenge of almost every organisation. Is it a challenge we rise to? Possibly not. There is no 'one solution fits all', however, this article, by Joseph A De Feo, has some seriously good ideas. A huge amount comes back to the basics, such as, letting people know they and their contribution is valued, encouraging creativity and mentoring.
Update from ABF Wellington
2011 continues to be a stop - start, start - stop recruitment environment for both contracting and permanent requirements. At Momentum we have a wide range of outstanding candidates looking for new opportunities however, at the moment we are finding a lot of our clients are focusing on restructures, potential restructures, mergers or potential mergers. This means their recruitment needs continue to get pushed to one side or put on hold all together.
Update from ABF Auckland
After coming off a very busy July where we filled both permanent and contract assignments at all levels within Accounting and Finance we then experienced a steady August. There was a slow down in both the volume of roles coming through and the time taken to fill the role which resulted in a few incidents where our star candidates were left looking at other options.
As for our candidates, I noted with interest an article in the NBR stating that half of the working-age Aucklanders were born overseas. As we know, we operate in an increasingly diverse market place and our attraction strategies ever more so reflect that. http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/half-working-age-aucklanders-born-outside-nz-nk-100115
Overall it does appears that the roles unplaced in August will be placed in the month of September. This suggests that it was more short term market jitters slowing things up than any long term trend, which was backed by a substantial lift in roles coming through from our PSA clients in the very last week of August, again a suggestion that September will be a busy and productive one.
Auckland Contracting
We have come off a very busy July as we launch our new brand, RPM Contracting, giving us a complimentary Contracting Consultancy who have an in depth understanding of the Contracting community.
Recruitment consultancies are still very relevant
I hear a lot of talk about social sites, media, networks etc being the death knell for the recruitment industry. Bollocks. Why? Because both candidates and clients' need different things and social network comment or 'clouds' do not address or indeed satisfy all their requirements.
Has the contracting market rebounded from the dark days of 2008/09
We are obviously only one of the many indicators that measure the employment market and it is more difficult to determine trends in contracting than most other markets given the pace it operates at and changes.
What's keeping us busy?
It's been a good, steady July for the team on the contracting side! What's keeping us busy? Well, along with the placing of some excellent contractors, we had a very enjoyable Contractor function last Thursday that got a great turn out. As always, a most enjoyable night!
Bede Ashby - Momentum MD
I've just published a post: About 9 months ago I wrote a blog about how things were showing signs of improving. I was feeling pretty relieved that there was a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Imagine the feeling now as I report a sensational quarter culminating in the best month ever in the history of Momentum Group. We were established in 1996, so that's best month ever in 14 years!