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What is CSR and What Should Companies Prioritise?

By Clementine.Evans@adecco.com.au | February 27, 2024
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Do we, as consumers, really care about how companies treat their employees? Or how they engage with local communities, and how ethical their practices are? Does it make a difference when we consider buying their products or becoming employees? According to millions of dollars being invested in corporate social responsibility (CSR) every year, the answer…

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Embedding CSR into Your Workplace Culture

By Clementine.Evans@adecco.com.au | February 27, 2024

In the first part of our series on corporate social responsibility, we outlined exactly what CSR is and how why organisations are increasingly introducing it into their business strategies. We also outlined a basic roadmap that businesses should aim to follow to start the wheels in motion for their CSR policies. So, once an organisation…

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Skills-Based Hiring: The Key to Enhanced Diversity and Improved Company Culture

By Clementine.Evans@adecco.com.au | February 9, 2024
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Traditional hiring practices can sometimes overlook a candidate equipped with the best skills to fill a specific vacancy. But there’s another potential downside to a recruitment process which fails to focus on job applicants’ skills and abilities: a lack of diversity and inclusion. The solution is skills-based hiring, which aims to match the requirements of…

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