Ms. Meahan Callaghan

Meahan Callaghan, SEEK's Human Resources Director and the project sponsor, explained: "As we increased the size and diversity of our product offerings, the range of questions we started to receive increased too."

SEEK operates a 50 person customer service team in Melbourne, focused on servicing client requests. The company had an existing intranet in place however it wasn't being well used by the business and required a lot of time for little return.

"The functionality just wasn't there for content management and even a small change required the involvement of our IT department," Callaghan said.
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Callaghan said her past experience working in call centers taught her the importance of intranets.
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"Larger organizations might want to spend months developing an intranet project, but that's not us," explained Callaghan.

Meahan Callaghan, HR director, SEEK Limited

Meahan Callaghan, HR Director, SEEK, has over 10 years experience in the HR industry and has spent a considerable amount of time in the areas of organisational development, performance management and talent management.

Meahan will explore:

Meahan Callaghan, SEEK’s Human Resources Director and project sponsor said that over 90 percent of the company use it for general employee communications, the phone list and social updates such people's birthdays. About half of the staff use the customer facing content on a daily basis as part of their job.

Callaghan said one of the biggest benefits of the new system is that it does not need to be maintained and updated by the IT department: anyone in the business can use it.

It was chosen over competitors because it was the most cost effective and easiest to use.

“Training takes about 30 mins -- it is a very intuitive system,†said Callaghan.

Meahan Callaghan Director, Human Resources SEEK Limited (AUS)

In this session, Meahan will discuss:
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Meahan Callaghan Director, Human Resources SEEK Limited (AUS)

SEEK Human Resources director Meahan Callaghan said the award was further recognition that SEEK is a great place to work.

"Everyone at SEEK is incredibly proud of this achievement," said Ms Callaghan.

"It reflects the hard work and commitment of everyone at SEEK towards achieving our goal of being Australia and New Zealand's best employer."

"At SEEK, we've taken direct action to retain our talent through the current environment," said Ms Callaghan.

"Since judged for the Hewitt Award, we've introduced a sabbatical program that offers extended leave to all employees on a percentage of their base salary," said Ms Callaghan.
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Meahan Callaghan HR Director, SEEK (03) 8517 4295

SEEK Human Resources director Meahan Callaghan said the award was further recognition that SEEK is a great place to work.

“Everyone at SEEK is incredibly proud of this achievement,†said Ms Callaghan.

“It reflects the hard work and commitment of everyone at SEEK towards achieving our goal of being Australia and New Zealand’s best employer.â€

“At SEEK, we’ve taken direct action to retain our talent through the current environment,†said Ms Callaghan.
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Meahan Callaghan HR Director, SEEK (03) 8517 4295