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Mathan Allington

Mathan Allington is Head of Marketing at Compono, where he writes about hiring, culture, capability and the people-insight side of HR that most tools ignore. He turns behavioural science and workforce data into decisions HR teams can actually defend, and has spent his career building demand for B2B software across Australia and beyond.

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How to use industry culture benchmarks to drive performance

Industry culture benchmarks are standardised data points that let you compare your organisation's cultural health, engagement levels and employee behaviours against similar businesses in your sector. They exist to give your internal numbers context,...

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How to move HR from transactional to strategic

Moving HR from transactional to strategic means automating the administrative work so you can spend time on the things that shift business outcomes,...

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Best hiring tools for Australian businesses

The best hiring tools for Australian businesses combine an applicant tracking system (ATS) with deep SEEK integration, record keeping that satisfies...

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How to scale culture during rapid growth

Culture breaks during rapid growth because the informal systems that carried it, close contact and shared history, stop working past about fifty...

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Employee onboarding software: a guide to smarter integration

Employee onboarding software is a digital tool that automates and manages how new hires join your organisation, so they get the systems, knowledge,...

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Engagement vs performance: how to balance both for success

Employee engagement measures how committed and motivated your people feel. Performance measures the results they actually deliver. The two are...

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Choosing the best HR reporting software for your team

The best HR reporting software centralises your people data (hiring, engagement, performance and development) and turns it into insights you can act...

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Choosing the best recruitment management system for your team

A recruitment management system is software that runs your whole hiring process in one place: job posting, candidate screening, interview...

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Science-backed hiring: how to build high-performing teams

Science-backed hiring means using objective data, validated psychological assessments and structured interviews to predict how a candidate will...

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