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Your Business Will Benefit With Blue Collar Workers
Our blue collar workers are quality employees ready to get to work – simple. Whether your recruitment needs call for temporary or permanent staff, you can rest assured in the knowledge that we have a pool of qualified talent, available today, to suit your unique needs. Blue Collar People can connect you with the right workers [...]
Your Hiring Process: 5 Tips for Efficiency
It is important to ensure that your company has an efficient hiring process so that you find and hire the right candidates. Hiring can take a lot of time and energy and you want to know that you are hiring people who are the right fit for your business and are going to stay for the long term.
10 Questions To Ask Your Recruitment Agency
Similar to entering any other kind of partnership, you will need to find out some important information about your potential recruitment agency to determine whether they are suitable for your needs and whether they are competent at their job.
Employee of the year: Martin
Martin has been employed with Blue Collar People since June 2017. He has worked as an Electrician for various customers and we have always received excellent feedback. He is motivated and eager to learn.
Introducing Adam Olivieri
We would like to introduce you to our newest Recruitment Consultant Adam Olivieri. Adam has been with Blue Collar People since January 2016 working as Trade Assistant/Construction Labourer and has recently transferred into the office as permanent employee.
Recruitment Agencies: How Can They Help You?
Recruitment agencies, in a nutshell, are outside firms that basically play matchmaker between companies looking for employees and individuals in search of employment. These agencies perform all the recruitment processes on behalf of their clients including sourcing, screening, interviewing, background checking and reference checking candidates to ensure the potential employees are a match for the [...]
Differences Between A Recruitment Company and A Labour Hire Firm
What is a Recruitment company? How recruitment companies work > Benefits of using a recruitment company > About Labour hire firms > The benefits of labour hire to businesses > What is the best option for your business? Aspects of a great recruiter > At first glance, a labour hire Perth firm and labour hire [...]
Job Seeker FAQ
Read some FAQs regarding job seeking with Blue Collar People Jump To Question: Does BCP hire casuals for holiday or weekend work? Can I suspend my registration with you if I find other work? How old must I be to register with BCP and what do I need? Once registered with BCP, do I keep [...]
Staff On Holiday? Fill In – Casual Workers
Are staff shortages an issue? You can cover your shortfall of workers with casual employees to maintain productivity during labour gaps. Read about how Blue Collar People can help you with quality labour hire… As they say, all work with no play makes for less productive employees. It is for this reason – and the [...]
How To Improve Employee Engagement In Your Company
Employee engagement is defined as the emotional commitment an employee has to the organisation and its goals. Because they’re emotionally committed, engaged employees actually care about the company as well as their role in it. As a result, these employees don’t just work for a paycheque, or just because they want to earn a [...]
Managing A Cross-Generational Workforce – How To Go About It
Learn how to go about managing a cross-generational workforce from understanding the different generations of employees to developing useful strategies for managing an age-diverse workforce… Jump To: Is having an age-diverse workforce a good thing? Understanding the different generations of employees Strategies for managing a cross-generational workforce Managers in many organisations are increasingly having [...]
How To Be A Good Leader – 6 Effective Tips
Whether you’re leading a group of permanent employees, contract workers, temporary staff, or a combination of the three; how well you do it will determine whether you achieve your organisation’s goals or not. Making sure a group of people works cohesively towards a common goal is, however, easier said than done and can easily become [...]
What Is Ethical Labour Hiring?
Ethical labour hire is the hiring of individuals in a non-discriminatory way. Discrimination can be overt or covert and can be based on sex, gender or sexual orientation. Hiring staff with a bias based on any of these factors can be seen as discrimination. Factors to consider when hiring labour There are a number [...]
Why Having A Skilled Workforce Is Essential
Ask any successful entrepreneur or business leader, and they will tell you that their human resources are the most important component of their organisation. That’s because the success or failure of any business highly depends on the quality of labour available to it. Every organisation needs a skilled workforce. So many industries are becoming more [...]
Staffing Levels for Next Year– Start Planning Now
Having an inadequate number of workers is tough for any company. Some of the common reasons for staffing shortages include employees falling ill, maternity leave, annual leave; and in good times… increased demand for products. Whatever the reason for the labour shortfall is, the bottom line is that it has to be fixed for operations [...]
Why Should You Hire Workers From a Labour Hire Agency?
Have you ever considered hiring a temporary worker from a Labour Hire Company? If not, there are many reasons why you should consider these temporary skilled workers as a great way to gain additional employees as needed for your business: Hiring staff is a big job. When business owners or managers find that they need [...]
How to Keep Your Temps Happy
..and thereby getting the best out of them when they are working for you How does a labour hire company help with paperwork for hiring temps? How do you keep your temps happy? When you need the right staff to help you get work done, you may need them for a special project or to [...]
Management Tips To Help You Get The Most Out Of Your Temporary Workers
Temporary employees – or temps as they’re commonly known – come in a number of different forms that include on-hired workers (labour hire workers), contract workers, and direct-hire temps. Once you’ve decided to add temporary workers to your workforce, you will need to manage them effectively to ensure that you get the most out of [...]
Labour Hire Costs Vs Benefits
In business, labour needs are always changing. A business may be overstaffed today and then become understaffed just a week later without any changes being made to the employee roster. There’re two common reasons why labour needs keep changing in companies. These are: – Worker absences. Your employees will sometimes miss work due to reasons [...]
Fill Sick Days with Temporary Labour
Everyone falls sick from time to time, and your employees are no exception. Whether it’s just a case of the common cold or a work-related injury, a significant proportion of your workforce is bound to take sick days throughout the year to get treatment or recuperate after an injury. The time it takes for an [...]
Current Unemployment Stats For Perth
Unemployment rate as a percentage among workforce-eligible 15-24 year olds for February 2017 (Released 23 March 2017) WA 12.2% Greater Perth 12.9% Mandurah 19.1% Perth – Inner 8.1% Perth – NE 13.3% Perth – NW 13.0% Perth – SE 11.4% Perth – SW 15.6% Bunbury 8.0% WA Outback 6.7% WA Wheatbelt 18.1% Rest of WA [...]
Labour Hire Insurance – How Does That Work?
No matter the number of precautions we take, accidents are bound to happen from time to time. Such is the nature of running a business. Most accidents in a business will involve workers – they could get injured while on the job, cause damage to work equipment, or accidentally cause injury to co-workers or members [...]
How Trades Labour Hire Can Help Your Business
Having high-quality tradespeople for your business is not something that you can afford to take lightly. This is because the quality of the people you have on the ground can determine whether an operation succeeds or fails. Hiring the best tradies for your mining, manufacturing or construction business is, therefore, one of the most important [...]
BCP Joins The Local Government Supervisors Association of WA Inc.
The Directors of Blue Collar People are very pleased to announce that Blue Collar People has been welcomed as a Corporate member of the Local Government Supervisors Association of Western Australia INC (LGSA). We look forward to being a part of the LGSA and working with them, assisting them and Local Government with the provision [...]
