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For Employers

As an employer, you will often face a multitude of challenges and opportunities, especially in relation to staffing.

New Hire

Access to diverse talent pools is essential for business growth, fostering innovation and productivity. Embracing new hiring strategies that allow you to tap into a wide range of skills and perspectives can deliver significant benefits.

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Key Tools

Education and information are key tools in this process, helping you to capitalise on hidden talent pools e.g. long-term unemployed, young and mature aged people, those with disabilities, Indigenous people, veterans, prison leavers, and culturally and linguistically diverse individuals.

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Collaboration

Collaborating with publicly funded employment service providers can help bridge the gap between you and candidates, ensuring a successful recruitment and selection process to maximise ‘fit’ and retention. It’s also crucial for you to be informed about how to create good work opportunities by crafting better quality jobs that attract and retain talent, ultimately contributing to long-term benefits for employees, businesses and society.

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Read our evidence-based research on hiring and retaining hidden talent.

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Learn about how your business can benefit from drawing on hidden talent pools including through social procurement.

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Our innovative Job Quality Toolkit and Benchmarks will improve your understanding of job quality and help you to build and sustain good work practices within your workplace, helping you to create better outcomes.

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Join our community of practice of employers leading the way in hiring and retaining hidden talent.

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Understanding and promoting good work begins here, with a wealth of opportunities to learn, collaborate, and lead in the pursuit of better outcomes for employees, organisations and the community.

You can gain an understanding of the levers that create and sustain good work with our comprehensive suite of resources and toolkits:

Project Outputs

Ingold J., Knox A., and Lee Q. Y. 2024. Accessing hidden talent to improve organisational outcomes

Webinars & Podcasts

How to Access and Unlock Overlooked Potential in the Workforce (2023)

Webinars & Podcasts

The Energy Limiting Health Conditions: The unspoken energy crisis plaguing employees (2023)

Response to calls for evidence

Oral evidence to House of Representatives Select Committee on Workforce Australia Inquiry, 16 June 2023 -

Books

Ingold, J., McGurk, P. (2023) Employer Engagement: Making Active Labour Market Policies Work, Bristol: Bristol University Press

Webinars & Podcasts

Employment Related Services Association Employer Engagement Forum Book Launch (2023)

Our Research

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