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Key workforce trends in 2025

Jan 02, 2025

As we enter 2025, several key trends are shaping the workforce landscape: 1. Reskilling and Upskilling: With rapid technological advancements, continuous learning is essential. Employees are increasingly seeking opportunities to acquire new skills to remain competitive. 2. Adoption of Remote and Hybrid Work Models: Flexible work arrangements have become standard, offering employees autonomy over their work environments and schedules. 3....

What causes HR burnout ?

Dec 01, 2024

Human Resources (HR) staff burnout can be caused by various factors. Here are five common reasons: 1. **High Workload**: HR professionals often deal with a wide range of responsibilities, from recruitment to employee relations to compliance. An excessive workload can lead to stress and burnout, especially if resources and support are limited. 2. **Emotional Labor**: Dealing with employee issues, conflicts, and emotional situations on a...

What are the most common job interview questions

Sep 16, 2024

Looking for a new job? How prepared are you for your next interview? Interviews whether face to face or online gives first impressions about the candidate. The 10 most frequently asked questions during job interviews often focus on understanding your qualifications, skills, and how you might fit into the company’s culture. Here are the common ones: 1. **Tell me about yourself.** This question sets the tone and gives you an...

Reasons why not use company or student emails for personal use!!

Feb 01, 2024

Keep your personal business private. And this is particularly true if you are looking for a job and will be receiving daily mail alerts and confirmation for any job applications from services such as MyJobsFiji. Do not use your business email or a student Id email because... 1. If you leave your job or university, it can be difficult to recover an account. You may eventually decide to leave your current job. When that...

Our top five observations so far

Jan 26, 2024

We launched the www.myjobsfiji.com job board exactly two months ago without fanfare. We are sharing our experiences based on the advertisements we have seen so far. If you are an employer, professional in Human Resources, and/or simply interested in improving your recruitment process this may be of interest to you. Our top five observations All job vacancies listed on our job board were viewed by at least one or more prospective...

How technology is helping HR staff

Aug 21, 2023

Technology can provide numerous benefits to HR staff by streamlining processes, enhancing communication, and improving overall efficiency. Here's how technology can help HR professionals: 1. **Recruitment and Hiring:** Automated applicant tracking systems (ATS) can help streamline the recruitment process by managing job postings, applications, and candidate evaluations. 2. **Onboarding:** Digital onboarding platforms can facilitate the...

Advertise where the people are....

Aug 05, 2023

So you are looking for staff and have had a "hard time" finding "good ". We hear those words over and over from CEOs, managers and HR professionals. And, we see them post vacancies/ job opportunities over and over in traditional media. One company reposted a larger advert in the newspaper when a smaller one brought no job applications. So "what's wrong with " you ask...? Ummm, actually nothing is wrong unless you have loads of cash to...

So Why use our platform? | Some employer quotes

Aug 01, 2023

Sure, we can tell you about ourselves and the fact that we have a platform that allows you to advertise and then manage each application including drag and group candidates as part of your candidate selection process. Yes, you read this right - all of the above is included in the price. Here are some quotes from very large Fijian employers: "We have good responses from MJF. This generation is online focussed not on newspaper...

8 Reasons to Advertise on our Site

Jul 31, 2023

70% of Fiji is under 40 - the so called "Facebook generation" We cover a Fiji wide audience that is digitally savvy and is unlikely to read traditional media We have a list of Job Seekers on our site who get daily email alerts on all available jobs - we send around 75,000 daily! Your brand gets out there. We can direct all applications to go through your own Website or any other link you specify. - Increase visits to your own...

5 Reasons why your Job advertisements are failing

Apr 19, 2023

Let’s face it, candidates are human just like us and they have feelings too. Yes, a reminder is needed of the obvious. The key reason often stated is because you have not “sold” the job properly. What’s in it for me? Why should a candidate join your organisation? If you can't sell the job to yourself and not passionate about the product (your organisation) then it will come out. Even more sadly, we found there are a number of organisations...

MyJobsFiji Launch Function

Jun 15, 2018

Summary Here is the presentation from our launch event last week. We share observations from what we have learnt from being digital in Fiji. Most of all we share our aspirations for all Human Resources staff to collaborating and perhaps even creating a digital culture that not only benefits Fiji but creates a future Google or Amazon. We hope that the event allowed the opportunity for ongoing dialogue and networking and look...

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