Posts by shane@civitastalent.com
Appointment of General Manager, People & Culture, Technology Scale-Up
At a Glance Sector – Technology Location – Sydney, NSW Workforce – 650 Employees Service – HR Executive Search Engagement – Retained Search The Challenge A technology scale-up had grown past 650 employees with People operations still running on the informal processes that worked at 100 people, no formal levelling framework, inconsistent performance management, and…
Read MoreAppointment of HR Director, Australian Healthcare Provider
At a Glance Sector – Healthcare Location – Melbourne, VIC Workforce – 1,600 employees Service – HR Executive Search Engagement – Retained Search The Challenge An Australian healthcare provider with 1,600 employees across multiple facilities needed an HR Director who could operate credibly in a highly regulated, workforce-scarce sector, where clinical and non-clinical award coverage,…
Read MoreAppointment of Chief People Officer, National Retail Group
At a Glance Sector – Retail Location – Sydney, NSW Workforce – 4,200 Employees Service – HR Executive Search Engagement – Retained Search The Challenge A national retail group with 4,200 employees across its store network needed a Chief People Officer to sit on the executive committee for the first time, the role had previously…
Read MoreWhat Nobody Tells You About M&A: The Human Reality Behind Deal Value
Most business leaders believe mergers and acquisitions live and die in financial models. At Civitas, we have seen the exact opposite: financial models calculate potential synergies, but culture, compliance, and trust dictate whether those synergies ever materialise. When organisations scale through acquisition or private equity integration, HR cannot be an afterthought. We recently sat down…
Read MoreThe Civitas Talent Candidate Experience Award: 2026 TIARA Talent Acquisition Awards (ANZ)
Celebrating the Civitas Talent Candidate Experience Award At the 2026 TIARA Talent Acquisition Awards in Melbourne, Civitas Talent was proud to present the Candidate Experience Award, recognising the organisation delivering a market-leading, outcomes-driven candidate journey. This year’s winner is hipages Group, whose commitment to a genuinely candidate-first hiring process, reflected in an outstanding 100% candidate…
Read MoreWhat ANZ Senior HR Hiring Actually Looks Like Right Now
The most common thing I hear from HR leaders considering a move right now is that they are not looking. They are fielding calls, thinking about it, but not actively on the market. That is not a sign of a quiet market. That is a sign of a market where the best people are staying…
Read MoreAI Fluency for CHROs: A Practical Guide for ANZ HR Leaders
Take The 90-Day Risk Scorecard. AI fluency for CHROs isn’t about coding. It’s about leading. The 2026 CHRO operates in a function that has changed more in 18 months than it had in the previous decade. AI is in your recruitment pipeline, your performance documentation, your workforce planning models, your engagement analytics, your employee policy…
Read MoreAI Literacy vs AI Fluency in HR: What Is the Difference?
Take The 90-Day Risk Scorecard. Literacy is awareness. Fluency is operational. Senior HR hiring needs the second one. The most common 2026 mistake in senior HR hiring is conflating the two. The brief asks for AI literacy because it’s the term most CHROs are comfortable using. The role actually requires AI fluency because the function…
Read MoreThe AI-Fluent Success Hire: Assessing AI Skills in HR Hiring
1 in 4 senior hires fail in their first 90 days. By 2026, 92% of CHROs say AI is being integrated across HR processes. Most senior hire scorecards still don’t ask whether the candidate is AI-fluent. This is the gap. When you hire a senior HR or HSE leader in 2026, you’re not just hiring…
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