Coceptive wins top spot at Canberra Business Awards
The Canberra Region Local Business Awards pay tribute to and reward the community's best businesses, bring people together, and celebrate excellence and quality. In developing and strengthening the bonds between businesses and the community, the Awards aim to improve the...
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HR and recruitment activity & easing restrictions in ACT
ACT Lockdown After seven weeks of lockdown in the ACT – our longest since the pandemic began – life is looking like it will slowly return to normal for us in Canberra. This week, the government released a detailed roadmap to ease...
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Coceptive to mandate COVID-19 vaccination of all staff
Coceptive Consulting Group will require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of our commitment to safety. Frontline employees including consultants and administration staff will need to be fully vaccinated by 15 November 2021 and the remainder...
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Coceptive a finalist in Local Business Awards for the second year in a row
The Canberra Region Local Business Awards pay tribute to and reward the community's best businesses, bring people together, and celebrate excellence and quality. In developing and strengthening the bonds between businesses and the community, the Awards aim to improve the...
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Brand new HR services to help you achieve your business growth goals
Do you need a more holistic approach to employment services? To help you focus on more of what matters in your business, Coceptive now offers brand new HR services. Retaining an in-house HR team can be a big investment. As...
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The current state of recruitment amidst restrictions.
Increased restrictions are impacting recruitment conditions and candidate demand is stronger than ever, with three sectors attracting the greatest number of applications. Aside from newly introduced mask regulations, Canberra has been minimally impacted by COVID-19, with no lockdowns as of...
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New opportunities in the new financial year
The new financial year always brings fresh activity to the job market as organisations set goals and targets, allocate projects and create roles. For organisations, it’s a great time to recruit quality staff. For individuals, it’s a valuable time to...
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Coceptive Recruitment a finalist in Australian Small Business Champion Awards
The Australian Small Business Champion Awards, the most prestigious and competitive small business awards program in Australia, celebrates people and businesses in our country defined by hard work, ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, we received the exciting news Coceptive Recruitment...
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Full-time employment at a record high; unemployment rate drops to 5.5 per cent
Labour force figures released last week show there were 13,040,400 Australians in work in April 2021, with the level of employment now 45,900 (or 0.4 per cent) above its pre-COVID level in March 2020 and 902,500 (or 7.4 per cent)...
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Overcoming natural disasters: How Coceptive Recruitment survived fires and floods
Natural disasters typically instil a climate of fear. In 2019 and 2020, my home and various other regions across Southern NSW and the ACT were in the thick of raging bushfires. On New Year’s Eve, I was woken by a...
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Congratulations our Principal Consultant Luke, RSCA Rising Star Award finalist 2021
Today was an extraordinary day for Coceptive Recruitment, as our Principal Consultant Luke Hemmings was announced as a finalist in the RSCA Industry Awards for the Rising Star Award 2021. As a member of RSCA, we drive involvement in the...
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How COVID-19 Has Changed Your Workers’ Compensation Liabilities
We're all aware of the dangers of workers contracting the coronavirus. What then is the fallout for employers' role across the country in keeping staff COVID-19 safe? The most recent figures available show 533 COVID-19 related workers' compensation claims were lodged across...
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Employment Proposals Set to Impact Australian Employers in 2021
2021 is set to be a bumper year for employment law changes with a number of wide-ranging proposals in the pipeline. The Coalition government’s Industrial Relations reform bill, which was unveiled at the end of 2020, is likely to have...
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Sweeping Changes to Casual Employment Announced
Fair Work Act amendments could impact more than 2.6 million casual employees in Australia. The Federal Government is set to introduce to sweeping changes to the country’s industrial relations laws, which are expected to have a profound impact on the...
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Coceptive Announced as Finalists In Local Business Awards
Coceptive Recruitment has been recognised by the Canberra 2020 Local Business Awards, taking out a place in the 'Professional Services Category as a finalist. The Canberra based recruitment agency is looking forward to sharing the stage with the some of...
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Why This Country is Calling For a Six-Hour Workday
The ministers’ approach to work/life balance is a lesson for other countries. Top officials in Finland are renewing calls to adopt the six-hour workday as well as similar measures that aim to promote a better work/life balance for Finnish employees....
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