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As the employment market tightens, HR teams are increasingly partnering with marketing to be more aggressive and sophisticated with their employer branding strategies, a specialist says.

Candidates who perform well in traditional intelligence-based tests are not always the best people to hire or promote, according to new research from the University of Sydney Business School.

Giving employees a say in the recruitment process is a highly effective way of ensuring new hires have the right cultural fit, says the chief operating officer of an Australian software company.

Business leaders are far less confident than HR professionals about the strength of their organisation's talent practices, according to a new report from management consultancy Hay Group.

Male workplace leaders who believe gender diversity initiatives are unfair to men need some "attitude restructuring and a dose of reality", says experienced executive Avril Henry.

• Motivation trumps skills and experience for hiring managers
  
• Contingent workforce strategies help organisations "pivot"
  
• Low "AQ" holding employers back
  
• Job ads up 11% on last year
  
• Hiring on hold for rest of 2015
  
• Deloitte appoints high-profile leadership advisor

Better preparing recruits for the psychological demands of their roles has helped an employer achieve a 100 per cent new-hire retention rate.

An employer has reduced its graduate recruitment costs by more than 60 per cent after equipping itself to administer psychometric assessments.

• How to embed a career development culture
  
• Graduate salaries stable, as gender gap narrows
  
• Jobseeking is "always on"
  
• Redouble inclusion efforts to combat racism

• Eight strategies for engaging and retaining older workers
  
• "Purely decorative" competencies a common problem
  
• Unclear job ads a major gripe for jobseekers
  
• Video gaining popularity in recruitment