You know the song by Scott McKenzie! If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair Well today we are off on Implemented Portfolios 2018 Thought Leaders Study Tour which is super exciting. There are a couple of benefits to this I see: 1/ we get time to step away from the business, look at best practice in process, technology and thought to bring back and apply and share! 2/ help our clients as Millennials ask us everyday – I really want to work in a firm that embraces and engages with cutting edge technology Here are some ideas…..

“Seek first to understand, then be understood” is the 5th habit in Stephen Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People which is a great book and well worth the read. However, after many recent conversations and experience with SEEK as a means to finding the perfect talent for your firm I thought it was a good opportunity to share with you some of the pros and cons of using online employment job boards ad how to make this strategy work for you…

“Train them and they might leave; don’t train them and they might stay” I spoke to Scott Charlton from SlipStream Coaching in regards to hiring millennial talent in professional services and he gave us his top 3 tips on maximising your return on investment…..

This week we started our Sydney Assessment Centres for our upcoming Speed Networking events and as always we have some fantastically candid conversations with millennials on how to dress for interviews. Like a Chameleon though it is about matching with the branding and culture of the firm they are interviewing for (although less is not best!)….

With flexibility being one of top things staff look for in an employer, the advent of shared and flexible working space could provide some cost effective and valuable alternatives. We spoke to the Founder of Flow Space in Western Australia, Sue Viskovic to find out what it is all about…

Quite often growth is a key plan for the year ahead and that can mean more resources. Timing of when the resources are needed and the time it takes to find them doesn't always match up so we recommend to Always Be Hiring (ABH). Hope you enjoy!

While we are all busy focusing on wrapping up what is on our desk before the summer break, it is also often in the back of our mind what is needed to achieve our goals for 2018 and some thing's (like resourcing for growth) take time so it's best to be on the front foot ..

Flexibility means different things to different people but if your firm really wants to engage and retain the best then how can it be adapted in your firm in a profitable way

In the day an age of sharing every possible milestone or daily event on a myriad of social mediums from SnapChat to Facebook to LinkedIn, it can raise a lot of questions when working through various hr processes but what does it say about you or your firm if you have been actively avoiding leaving a social trail?

Attracting, engaging and retaining the best talent can be a full time business. We get to see extraordinary professional services firms doing this every day and there seems to be a common thread