“I wished I’d never hired that person!” This is a common complaint we hear from business owners who settle for second best because they don’t want to get caught up in the seemingly endless cycle of résumés, phone calls, and interviews, not to mention the endless flow of money into recruitment adverts and employee training. Choose Wisely or Pay the Price The Expr3ss! team has reported to you previously on the high price tag of bad staffing practices. We’ve uncovered even more essential bottom line intel: a Harvard study contends that never hiring a toxic worker or getting rid of…  Read More

Turnover statistics tell a story about a business’ processes, procedures, leadership, and culture. Whether or not that story has a happy ending depends on keeping employee churn to a minimum.   In this article, Team Expr3ss! shares news on how to do just that. How Good Staffing Can Save $385 Million Companies invest time, effort, and cold hard cash into recruiting, interviewing, and training an employee. The failure to retain new employees is placing a substantial burden on the balance sheet’s bottom line. In fact, it is estimated that staff churn costs Australian retailers $3.8 billion in lost productivity $385…  Read More

  What would you do if you had several thousand jobs to hire for and received two million job applications from around the world? That’s what happens each year at Google. In response, the company created efficient processes that allowed them to sort through the growing tsunami of applicants and quickly identify top applicants to hire.   What works for Google will work for you. In this article, Expr3ss! shares four simple principles that “…can help even the smallest team to do much, much better at hiring” Lazlo Bock, Senior VP, People Operations, Google How Google Cut Hiring Time & Costs…  Read More

Here at Expr3ss!, we’re always working to find new tactics to help your business do better. Staff selection is one of our favourite proven strategies, of course, but that doesn’t mean we’re not interested in other issues that can impact a company’s reputation as well as its bottom line. One such issue: the consequences of what your employees may be publishing on social media. In a study published by York College’s Centre for Professional Excellence, half the human resources professionals who participated reported that “IT abuses have increased over the past five years” among new college graduates. Expr3ss! Asks the…  Read More

During our decade serving Australian small and mid-sized enterprises, Expr3ss! has proof-positive that technology provides profitable solutions to challenges in the employment sector. It is true today and will be increasingly true in the future. Access to a worldwide talent pool is an inevitability that businesses can eagerly accept, or reject at the peril of profitability. Global job markets are destined to embrace technology solutions. For businesses, the right technology can improve efficiency in staff selection, thereby reducing costly staff turnover rates and expenses. There’s an upside to this paradigm shift for jobseekers, millions of whom will be able to…  Read More