Heart Talent Connect | 16 June 2023

Welcome to Heart Talent Connect.

Welcome! Heart Talent Connect is your place for all things talent with an authentic, marketing-led approach.

Each month we'll bring you the latest talent insights; relatable, tangible advice and share some of our best content.

We’ll help you level up your talent attraction, understand employee experience and be a brand that connects with people (both the talent you have and the people you want to attract).

You can read more about us below.

A note from Cynthia...

Last week was?Queensland Philanthropy Week, a celebration of all things humanity, giving and community.

We were thrilled to be a supporting sponsor of the?2023 Queensland Philanthropy Awards and humbled by the incredible stories of generosity and kindness showcased by all of the award finalists.

On Friday 9 June we joined more than 500 guests, 200 school students, Lucas and Nic from Orange Sky and panelists Terri Irwin AM, Johnathan Thurston AM and Don Meij to celebrate and acknowledge the wonderful work of these inspiring organisations and individuals. Congratulations to all of the award winners.

Thank you Tara Castle and the?Queensland Community Foundation?team for shining a light on the power of giving.

Answering your FAQs: The Heart approach to talent.

Heart is a talent attraction and recruitment marketing business.

We partner with NFPs and SMEs with heart, helping leaders tackle all sorts of talent challenges and connecting employers and people with purpose.

We used to be Heart Recruitment but people tell us we're nothing like a typical recruitment business.

They're right. We're proudly different. We're not a recruitment 'agency', so we dropped the 'R' word.

Heart is only business offering flexible services across talent attraction and engagement, recruitment marketing and employer brand.

We take a modern, marketing-led approach to talent. We’re connectors and problem solvers who value people, relationships and exceptional communication.

Forget a job-board-only, ‘acquisition’- style approach. We’ve been working in talent long enough to know:

• You don’t acquire employees. You attract and engage people.
• Recruitment is a marketing exercise. You need to sell your offer.
• You’re always recruiting, even when you’re not hiring (that’s why employer brand is so important.)
• Understanding and proactively managing your employer brand has a profound impact on talent retention and engagement (not just attraction).

In the spirit of sharing, we’re here to answer your questions about how we work. Let’s get started!?Read on.

Retain, engage, attract: talent challenges can be tough. Where should you start?

A great talent strategy requires a modern, marketing-led approach that considers all elements of retention, engagement and attraction to help you find and keep the best people.

As a leader, it’s important that you never consider any one component of your talent strategy in isolation. The greatest outcomes are possible when you develop an approach that encompasses every stage of the hiring journey and the employee lifecycle.?

But what if you need to prioritise? What matters most??Read on.

Worried about employee turnover? You're not alone.

Talent is the number-one issue keeping Australian leaders awake at night, and for good reason. 2022 was the year of the great resignation, reshuffle, realignment and reassessment. Whatever you call it, many employees left their jobs behind to pursue career growth or a new lifestyle.

Retention and engagement and more more important than ever.

With a clear, actionable employee retention strategy and a proactive employer brand, it’s possible to keep the best talent in your team and get ahead of the curve when you need to attract new talent.?Read on.

Employee experience (EX): Know how to make it count.

Employee experience is human experience. - Ben Whitter.

So how can you improve your EX approach to attract and retain great people?

Every aspect of our relationship with work and our employer matters. If improving engagement and retention is on your mind, employee experience should be too.?

Curating a positive employee experience is at the heart of good leadership and an effective employer brand. So what is employee experience anyway, and how can you make it count??Read on.

Download your Heart Talent content

We are all about supporting leaders and employers with their talent needs.

In each edition of Heart Talent Connect we'll share some of our free content with you. Today we have a little list of high-impact questions you might like to try out in your next interview.

9 interview questions to help you identify top talent.

Whether you're an employer looking to attract talent or simply fancy a chat, please get in touch - we'd love to know your story!

Contact the Heart Team