by Montagu Group | Feb 5, 2023 | Montagu Group
How did you begin your recruitment career in Information Technology and Finance?
So, I stumbled into Information Technology and Finance recruitment, I didn’t think that I would ever be in recruitment. I thought my path was in hotel management in five star hotels, doing all of that, but turns out, that’s not for me. We moved to Weipa. Which is a small mining town in Cape York. I started in mining and civil construction recruitment,it was very fast-paced.And basically, it was the only decent job there that I could get. And I didn’t want to work shift work, I didn’t want to go drive the trucks or anything.
How did you begin your role as Candidate Manager in IT and Finance at Montagu Group?
We actually left Weipa, we went traveling for almost 16 months and then we came back to the Gold Coast.I read this ad on Seek and I was like that’s good. That sounds really good, because I wasn’t too sure what I was going to do anyway. I saved that ad and then just went on with life, and then I applied for it just as it was expiring.I met and had a chat with Suki ;then we organized an interview and we all fell in love with each other.As silly as that sounds, but it just felt right.
Now I’m in IT, Accounting and Finance recruitment and I absolutely love it. I couldn’t picture myself doing anything else. Everybody that I speak to is just amazing. And yeah it’s just it’s very heartwarming this industry.
So, that’s how I stumbled into Information Technology and Finance recruitment. I loved it from day dot.
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by Montagu Group | Feb 3, 2023 | Montagu Group
How did you become a specialist in recruitment for Information Technology and Digital sectors?
My recruitment journey in Information Technology and Digital started because of my star sign which is pretty interesting. The lady that was the local recruitment company in the town that I grew up in, pulled up my resume one day because we were still in the filing system. (I’ve been doing recruitment for a while!) When she pulled out the resume and saw that my star sign was a Virgo, and she employed only Virgos. The bonus was that she saw that I did a degree in Human Resources, which prompted her to interview me and offer me a job. That’s how I fell into recruitment was because of my star sign.
What did you love about the role of talent solutions in Information Technology and Digital initially?
What I loved about the role is that it spoke to who I am and what I love doing. I think if you don’t enjoy working with people, then this job will quickly chew you up, and spit you out, because it’s 100% people based.
What challenges did you experience in your career?
So I did recruitment in George, which is a small town in South Africa, that that for about a year or two. Then we immigrated to Ireland and started my Information Technology and Digital career. Recruiting in Ireland, I didn’t know a thing about it recruitment, couldn’t understand a word that Irish was saying to me. It was a huge, huge learning, curve very steep. Loved it, every second of it, the Irish are amazing people. I’ve got a very soft spot for them in my heart and that, that was six years and then we applied for our permanent residency to come to Australia and in 2009. So my husband and I arrived here with a 10 month old baby girl. The timing was smack, bang in the middle of the global financial crisis in 2009.
What do you do in these kinds of times? You just start again.
What’s the biggest business reflection guiding you at the moment?
I’ve been privileged enough to work with some amazing companies in Information Technology, Digital and Finance. Some companies I still have relationships with and have have built that strong connection. Like Adele said, that center part of our our logo really or our tagline is that that human connection goes for clients and candidates and internally. Yeah, so that’s been the journey. Now we’re here at Montagu Group, and we’ve got a team together and it’s almost like all roads have led to here.
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by Montagu Group | Dec 9, 2022 | Montagu Group
The Art of Goal Setting
Many of us set goals at the start of a new year. We’re motivated to make positive changes and push ourselves past our current boundaries. But in all that excitement, we also need to ask ourselves some tough questions.
Knowing your values is the first step to achieving your goals. What do you value most? Is it success? Health? Happiness? Knowing what you value is the starting point for setting your goals, and making sure that they are aligned with who you are as a person and how you want to live life.
Five questions to ask yourself when reviewing your goals
By asking ourselves these 5 questions, we can be more confident about our goals and what they mean to us.
How do my values align with my actions – and do I know my values?
Am I accountable for the life that I’m living and who am I accountable to?
What are my life goals and am I proud to have them?
Are my actions helping me to achieve those life goals?
Do I have a sense of purpose in work and life, both personally and professionally?
If you want to discuss your your future and seriously evaluate you why and how – find someone who you trust to have those big honest conversations and once you have broken down whats really going on – you can start to set goals knowing your WHY.
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by Montagu Group | Oct 10, 2022 | Candidates, Employers
Digital and Inforamtion Technology Trends for 2022
Every year, Gartner identifies technology trends that are critical to business.
This year, the list comprises 12 strategic trends that will enable CEOs to deliver growth, digitalisation, and efficiency.These trends will position CIOs and IT executives as strategic partners in any organisation.
Here’s the list of 12 Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2022
- Trend 1: Data Fabric – a flexible, resilient integration of data sources across platforms and business users. This makes data available everywhere it is needed regardless of where the data lives.
- Trend 2: Cybersecurity Mesh – Enables best-of-breed, stand-alone security solutions to work together to improve overall security. This moves control points closer to the assets they are designed to protect.
- Trend 3: Privacy-enhancing Computation – Securing the processing of personal data in environments that are not trusted.
- Trend 4: Cloud-native Platforms – Technologies that allow you to build new application architectures that are resilient, elastic, and agile—enabling you to respond to rapid digital change.
- Trend 5: Composable Applications – Making it easier to use and reuse code, accelerating the time to market for new software solutions and releasing enterprise value.
- Trend 6: Decision Intelligence – Modelling decisions as a set of processes, using intelligence and analytics to inform, learn from, and refine decisions.
- Trend 7: Hyperautomation – A disciplined, business-driven approach to rapidly identify, vet, and automate as many business and IT processes as possible.
- Trend 8: AI Engineering – Automatic updates to data, models, and applications to streamline AI delivery.
- Trend 9: Distributed Enterprises – A digital-first, remote-first business model to improve employee experiences, digitalise consumer and partner touchpoints, and build out product experiences.
- Trend 10: Total Experience – Business strategy that integrates employee experience, customer experience, user experience, and multiexperience across multiple touchpoints to accelerate growth.
- Trend 11: Autonomic Systems – Self-managed physical or software systems that learn from their environments and dynamically modify their own algorithms in real time to optimise their behaviour in complex ecosystems.
- Trend 12: Generative AI – Learns about artefacts from data and generates innovative new creations that are similar to the original but do not repeat it.
Watch Gartner’s video now, and see how three trends—generative AI, cybersecurity mesh, and decision intelligence, will propel strategic change.
Knowing the different trends and their impact will be a key focus for business in the future. With a tight integration between most of the trends, varying combinations of technologies are likely to be required to compete at various times in the business growth cycle. Selecting the priority trends will revolve around CIOs and IT leaders understanding their organisations’ short-term and strategic business objectives.
Read the full article here: Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2022
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by Montagu Group | Jan 19, 2022 | Employers
Staff shortages in 2022
On Jan 4, 2022, Financial Review posted an article, Staff shortages will take three to five years to fade: KPMG where they say hundreds of Australian business leaders cite staff shortages and warn it will take up to five years to recover.
The latest KPMG survey of 400 chief executives, directors and business heavyweights found that almost 70 per cent believe acquiring and retaining talent is their key worry, amid negative net migration and soaring COVID-19 case numbers.
Immigration skill sets and staffing
Whilst there have been assurances from the federal government about skilled worker migration being ramped up, KPMG chairman Alison Kitchen said she expected omicron outbreaks will temporarily worsen the pain of labour shortages.
KPMG chief economist Brendan Rynne said the challenge posed by labour shortages was caused by both a lack in “volume of people … and also the skill sets that we’re chasing”, pointing to almost two years of closed borders and foreign residents returning home as causes.
In the past 12 months, net overseas migration has fallen by nearly 100,000 people – a negative trend – which, although borders have since reopened, Dr Rynne expected to continue.
“As we now come out of that, what you’re seeing is that with net overseas migration being negative for last year – and I’m anticipating it is going to still be negative for this year as well – there’s a lot of pressure being put on [both] permanent migration and temporary skilled migration,” Dr Rynne said.
“There’s an acknowledgement [by the federal government] that there needs to be a ramp-up in net overseas migration[but] it’s tricky in terms of the timing of opening up borders as well.
“There’s still this global health pandemic we’re dealing with, so it’s managing the rapid escalation of migration with some overarching health concerns.”
Dr Rynne also acknowledged that a rapid jump in migration could also dampen wage growth – an issue under consideration by the Reserve Bank – but believed this would be offset by improved productivity.
Staff shortages have also worsened since the survey was completed in November, as thousands of new daily cases across the country force workers into isolation.
Also, the survey showed that upskilling existing staff to meet increasing demands for digital transformation will continue to be a concern until 2026.
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https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/staff-shortages-will-take-three-to-five-years-to-fade-kpmg-20220104-p59lpy
