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Luxury Retail

#Trending: Why luxury retail is so on-trend in Australia

While the Australian retail sector has previously been under some serious pressure, the luxury retail market has gone from strength to strength. The $3 billion industry has seen an annual growth of 8.3% over the past five years and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. While Australia is comparatively an immature market, thanks to a lack of ...
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Crucial steps to becoming a Manager that Employees want to follow.

Becoming a manager is easy. Becoming a manager that people want to work for is not. Being a manager is more than simply hiring staff and giving directions. So, what makes a manager that employees want to follow and how can you become one? Above all, being a manager that Employees want to follow requires respect. Respect ...
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Are you over-preparing for job interviews?

The internet is full of information. An information overload about almost anything you could want to know. So when preparing for most things in life, our first step is to Google ‘how to prepare for…’ or ‘what do I need for…’. But is there such a thing as too much preparation? The simple answer is, YES! ...
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Why Retailers Should Take Advantage of End of Financial Year Sales

  As the financial year draws to a close, retailers should start looking at what stock they have left to move before tax time. The easiest way to move excess stock and make room for new products is to hold a sale, this of course, is basic retail knowledge and not reserved for end of financial year ...
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How Can Social Media be one of the Strongest Tools in Retail?

Social Media Marketing is one of the strongest tools retailers has at their disposal. So, is it being used to its full potential by all retailers and how can it be used to enhance the in-store customer experience? Ideally, a store’s social media presence should tell a story or create a personality as well as advertise and ...
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New Financial Year: New Career?

The start of a new year is the perfect time to start looking for a new career, right? Well, maybe not.  Figures show that an estimated 50% of the working population spends most of January looking for a new job. With all of these potential new employees on the job hunt, new studies suggest that the ...
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5 Steps to Effective Time Management

From the second we land our very first job we are constantly told that we need to manage our time effectively. No matter whether we are waitressing, packing shelves, inputting data or answering phones and emails and no matter if we are at the bottom of the hierarchy or the CEO, time management is one of ...
Christmas Staff

Christmas Staff: How to find (and keep) the perfect team!

We’ve all been there, at the counter of a retail outlet, in peak holiday shopping hour, just waiting to be served. It’s frustrating, frustrating for the consumer, frustrating for the staff and of course, frustrating for the business owner. So, what steps can you take to ensure this is not the case this Christmas in your ...
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Why should you hire Recruit Career Consult when recruiting for your company?

As a recruitment agency, we often get asked “Why would a company hire you to do their hiring?” and the answer can be as simple or as complicated as you would like to make it.   Let’s start with what Recruit Career Consult does for our clients. Recruitment agencies are external companies who advertise, search, network, physically get ...