Hiring Advice

Event season SOS: Same-day temps to the rescue

As London’s bustling event season kicks into high gear, businesses across the city are facing a common challenge: the sudden need for rapid-response temporary staff. At Australasian Recruitment Company, we’ve observed this growing trend and its critical impact on office operations. Let’s explore why this service has become indispensable for…

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Internal recruitment: How to hire for your hiring team

To take it in-house or not to take it in-house? This becomes the question on many an organisation’s lips at the point along their growth curve when recruitment becomes the primary focus. Is this the point at which you commit to a full-time hire or is the agency still your…

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Why now is the time to plan for staff shortages over the Christmas period

The run-up to Christmas and peak trading period can be a hectic time for businesses, with project deadlines all hitting at once, increased orders coming in and trying to keep productivity high to hit end-of-quarter and end-of-year targets. Staffing shortages abound and businesses struggle to manage peak workloads and initiatives…

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How to secure the best talent in today’s candidate-driven market

Demand for workers in today’s economy has surpassed pre-pandemic levels while staff availability is falling at a record pace.  In fact, new research from KPMG and the Recruitment Employment Federation has shown that the current shift towards a candidate-driven market has triggered the highest increase in starting salaries in 24 years.  A recent…

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How to hire an Executive Assistant

“Executive Assistant” can have vastly different meanings between organisations and as such, is one of the most challenging types of roles to hire. EAs occupy the space somewhere – and everywhere in- between admin assistant and strategic partner, providing not just administrative support but on-the-ground intel to their executive to…

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Mind the Skills Gap: If you’re not hiring from overseas you could be missing out on big benefits

The advent of Brexit has led to huge talent shortages in the UK workforce. Coupled with being in the wake of a global pandemic that’s left many employees clinging to existing jobs, there has been a significant knock-on effect on hiring in the UK and many organisations are struggling to…

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Hiring business support staff in The New Normal: What skills and personality traits should you be looking for?

In the post-pandemic era of flexible working, virtual assistants and digitisation of administrative tasks, is your hiring strategy as future-proof as it can be? It isn’t new news that remote working and the hybrid model has shifted how leaders and coworkers connect and do business: as early as 2017 a…

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Calling All Clients – How To Choose Your Agency

This week we have been delighted to welcome our new Business Development Manager, Aliesha Jones, to the growing Australasian Recruitment Company team! Aliesha joins us having spent the last 14 years of her career with Air New Zealand, gaining global experience across Leadership, Sales, Account Management and Operations. With that…

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Remote Control: How to Manage Teams Remotely

All of us have now been working from home for months and we’ll have our own views on how best we might have been managed over that period. As a leading recruitment agency in London, we’ve pulled together our advice for managing remote teams: “If you’re thinking it, they’re thinking…

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How to Successfully Hire a Virtual Assistant

How to successfully hire a Virtual Assistant We have reached an interesting juncture in the healthcare crisis that has engulfed the country since March 2020. Though the country is again in lockdown, businesses themselves have proved remarkably resilient and are forging ahead, working from home despite COVID-19. Companies in London…

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