March 2010 Newsletter

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Tara Robinson, Branch Manager of our Chatswood office brings you up to date...

Beaumont is buzzing with exciting this quarter! Our job flow has seen a significant increase in all sectors which indicates a great start to 2010! As both offices are bursting at the seams with additional new consultants renovations are underway to extend both Chatswood and Margaret Street offices. Recent new additions to the Beaumont team are Blair Barry-Jones (Business Services) and Ann Kingston (IT) in Chatswood and Justine McKnight (Accounting) in the city. Over the next 6 months, our focus is to open two new offices in South and Western Sydney.

We’ve recently had the pleasure of working with Heather Swan, who has hosted two very inspiring client evenings this quarter. Heather’s rollercoaster journey from highly successful corporate executive with no background in adventure (even fitness) to dual world record holding web suit pilot, left attendees sitting on the edge of their seats and feeling that the sky is the limit!

Heather is one of a number of speakers we are currently working with and our complimentary events schedule continues over the next four months including webinars, our CEO forum and breakfast showcase, so please book in early to avoid disappointment!

This month has also seen the launch of our complimentary candidate events. Partnering with Kim Seeling-Smith “The Reinvention Guru” we are running a number of one hour sessions to ensure success when job-hunting. We have also been very lucky to secure Kim for a one day training event next month, covering all of the above and more! For more details please speak to or email our Operations Manager - Patricia Leech.

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Our New Season of Webinars and Training Sessions now includes sessions on managing your career path…..

2010 saw the launch of a successful quarter of complimentary webinars aimed at helping our candidates with their interviewing skills, confidence and resume writing.

Due to the growing demand we have extended this program to be more relevant to all our candidates regardless of their situation:

Reinvent Yourself
Reinvent Your Career Path
Reinvent Your Resume
Reinvent Your Interview Skills
Reinvent Your Job Search

We hope that this will now be beneficial to both our clients and candidates.

This week we are also hosting our first in-house training session to assist those looking for work that need assistance with building their confidence, writing a resume and how to search for those hard to find positions.

If you or someone you know would be interested in attending this session please email Patricia Leech or call on 02 9279 2777.

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Our Staff & Family Christmas Picnic brought out the Sportsman in all of us…..

We were all so busy at Beaumont Consulting over the Christmas and New Year period that we decided to have a Sports Day for all staff and their family.

We had a great day at Clontarf Park with staff, partners and their children all joining in with the Three Legged Race, the Sack Race, Egg and Spoon and the Backwards Running Race. “Seagulls” was the winning team consisting of (L-R) Andrew (Justine McKnight’s partner), Tara Robinson, Simon (Claire Tate’s partner), Patricia Leech, Janine Runaghan, Trevor Robinson and Team Leader Mike Watson.

We were also treated to freshly made pizza from a mobile pizza oven supplied by Oven Lovin’ whose pizzas have been firmly put up there with our all time favorites…we’re busy thinking of reasons to have another party just so we can eat their pizza again!!

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Many of our staff were out of the office in February giving their time mentoring underprivileged teenagers.......

This month Nikki Beaumont gave a group of our Consultants the opportunity to support the Life Changing Experiences Foundation SISTER2Sister program volunteering for a fun day of jewellery making and bowling. SISTER2Sister is a 12 month mentoring program for teenage girls at risk of abuse and/or neglect which provides the girls with professional positive female role models to inspire and motivate them through a goal setting and achieving program to make a difference to their lives.

Our alternative big sister for the day DAVID surprisingly went down a storm with the girls and a great deal of fun was had by all. It was such a touching day that two of our Consultants have since formally applied to become a ‘Big Sister’ and another has offered to be a helper at an Easter camping expedition. If one thing stood out for everybody on the day it was the girls’ spirit, warmth and generosity despite the adversity they each face day to day. They really are a great source of hope and inspiration to us all. Thank you SISTER2Sister for allowing us to take part.

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Temp Of The Month

This month's Temp of the Month award goes to Sophie Neal who is working as receptionist for Incoll through Laura in our Chatswood Office. This is what the client said:

"Sophie is a breath of fresh air in the office and her bubbly personality and can do attitude make her a pleasure to work with. She is a real asset to the company."

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SEEK Index shows clear labour market bounce

In contrast to the ANZ Job Ad series, the SEEK Employment Index has shown a clear bounce in the labour market in January, with seasonally adjusted new job ads up 7.1%.

Unlike the ANZ series and the Olivier Job Index, which measure a snapshot of total job ads at a given time, the SEEK Employment Index measures net new job ads posted on the site, excluding refreshed and old ads.

The January SEI shows that new ads have now risen by 31.8% since their trough in June 2009 and indicates that the labour market is following a pronounced U-shape pattern, with the sharp fall in ads last year now being followed by an equally rapid rebound.

The Index shows a rebound in new job ads in all states and territories, led by NSW (+10.5%) and SA (+10.4%). WA (+8.7%), Queensland (+7.8%) and Victoria (+7.1%) also recorded solid increases.

New job ads in WA have now grown 50% between June 2009 and January 2010.

The number of new job ads placed during the month pushed up the overall SEI (which is a ratio of job ads to applications posted through the site) by 2.9%. In other words, there were less applications posted per job ad, so the market is swinging back in the candidates' favour.

SEEK managing director Joe Powell said the January figures showed "a clear trend in the right direction" and that recovery in the labour market was "well on the way".

05 February 2010 7:01am

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