Last week I went along to my very first career’s fair at Macquarie University and for a HR person who loves employer branding stuff and glossy brochures, I would liken it to the Easter Show for HR people. Yes and after a day at the show, here are the contents of my showbag. Honorable Mentions Ernst and Young- I am a big fan of their work. Inside their ‘Make...

So this is a guy in the U.S. and he has targeted Razorfish because he really wants to work there. Facebook advertising is quite cool in the way you can actually target the ads on really specific data on the users. You can target people based on the standard things like age,location and gender. However you can be even more specific than that. You can target key...

I was recently interviewed by the good people at Careerhub about my role at CSIRO and what I thought the future of graduate recruitment was all about. Of course I mentioned Social Media because I’m a big fan- but primarily its because social media has the ability to personalize or humanize the whole experience for a candidate. Rather than simply trawling a...

Last year at my work we had a handful of students join us for a summer vacation scholarship program here in Sydney and also in Melbourne. Although the students seemed to have a good time, I’ll be the first to admit that there were a number of…. let’s call them key learnings. To start with, despite advertising 6 projects on various university websites in Sydney...