INSIGHTS
The Rise of the AI-Assisted Complaint
How artificial intelligence may be changing employee relations and increasing workload for HR teams?
Why HR Professionals Don’t Interview Well (and How to Fix It)
You’d be excused for thinking that HR professionals would be expert interviewees. After all, isn’t a big part of their job supposed to be hiring people?
Rest, Reflect, & Reset
2025 has been a year of relentless commitment for HR professionals across Sydney. As we approach the break, I’m sharing a guide on the Three Rs—Rest, Reflect, & Reset. It’s time to move beyond the demands of the 'always on' culture and recalibrate for a purposeful 2026.
Moving Up in HR? What Leaders Should Know
Learn how to navigate promotions, manage former peers, set boundaries, and build credibility as you step into leadership with confidence
REVEALED – The Future HR Structure!
With all the discussion around new roles and replacement of positions by AI (I know, please keep reading!) I wanted to try to map out what the HR structure may look like in the future.
Be an HR Generalist and a Subject Matter Expert in Employee Reward
As a HR Generalist your role is naturally varied which can lead to a broad but shallow skillset, which is fine especially if you operate in a large HR team with centres of excellence. However, if you operate in a smaller organization, you may be asked to take on in-depth projects within a specific discipline of HR.
Be a HR Generalist and a Subject Matter Expert – Employee Engagement
In the post covid employment world with most employees at least partially working from home there has never been a more important time to understand your levels of employee engagement. It is no longer enough to do the annual engagement survey and implement a couple of initiatives to address pain points at that point in time.
An Introduction to Agile HR
Agile is a way of working that focuses on flexibility and adaptability. It involves breaking down work into smaller, manageable chunks called sprints and reviewing progress regularly. This approach is often used in technology and digital development.
Be a HR Generalist and a subject matter expert – TRAINING and DEVELOPMENT
Whether you are an HRBP, HRM or Head of HR it always pays to have a specialist area within your generalist skillset. My advice is to follow your inclination and take opportunities to develop depth of knowledge. These guides are ideally suited to stand-alone HR Generalist or HR Professionals in all generalist teams but they are a useful reference even if you work within a centre of excellence model.
The HR Hierarchy: The 3 Levels
This may look like HR 101, but when we talk to HR Professionals we hear some many different versions of how HR duties fit into these three buckets!
Why are so many HR Careers peaking too soon?
Every year I analyse thousands of data points for the HR Salary Guide and this year one pattern was impossible to ignore: the career ladder now stops climbing at $150K for most HR professionals.
What does Human Resources Business Partner really mean?
The Human Resources Business partner, or HRBP. It’s probably the most misused and misunderstood term in HR. We help cut through the confusion that surrounds this role.
Why Australia’s not part of Asia when it comes to HR
Think Australia is part of Asia? When it comes to the HR recruitment market, we share little in common with our northern neighbours.
7 things we all got wrong about internal recruitment
A lot of people have made a lot of wrong assumptions about internal recruitment, myself included. Now it’s time to set the record straight
The (r)evolution that’s changing recruitment
It's the change that's impacting all professions and it's changing recruitment in a big way too. It's the move from global to local, from generalist to specialist and from big to small. That's right, it's the rise of the boutique, and it's here to stay.
Has LinkedIn made the CV obsolete?
The mobile phone made the landline redundant. I’m not sure LinkedIn has done the same to the CV just yet.
How to be the candidate a Recruiter can’t wait to place
I want to let you into a little recruiter’s secret. Not all candidates were created equal. So if you want to be the one we call, here’s a few things you should - and shouldn’t be doing