{"id":905927,"date":"2026-11-04T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/905927\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:26:08","slug":"right-here-waiting-employment-heros-80s-ballad-hits-a-very-real-hiring-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/905927\/","title":{"rendered":"Right here waiting: Employment Hero\u2019s 80s ballad hits a very real hiring nerve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the ad, frazzled business owners are serenaded by backlit, windswept candidates who are then verified and hired on the spot. The big reveal is that the music-video hair was never natural. It was Big Ears, the company\u2019s purple rabbit mascot, pointing a leaf blower at them from just out of shot.<\/p>\n<p>It is daft, and it is meant to be. The campaign was made by Employment Hero\u2019s in-house creative team, the Hero Collective, with production houses Crater Global and Sure Studios. It runs in Australia, New Zealand and Canada until mid-December across connected TV, outdoor, radio, digital audio and paid social.<\/p>\n<p>Under the big hair sits a simple sales pitch: stop posting and praying. Employment Hero says verified job seekers are already inside the same system that more than 350,000 businesses use for HR, payroll and hiring. Global marketing director Tasman Page didn\u2019t dress the problem up with padded shoulders: \u201cFinding the right people is consistently the hardest part of running a business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The company now advertises a pool of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/products\/hiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">more than 2.3 million ready-to-hire candidates<\/a>, alongside an AI recruitment agent that screens applicants and produces shortlists.<\/p>\n<p>The ad is being launched as the platform gets ready to take a leading part in <a href=\"https:\/\/humanresourcesfest.com\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia\u2019s biggest HR Fest on November the 18th in Melbourne<\/a> alongside some of the country\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/humanresourcesfest.com\/australia\/speakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">senior HR professionals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the ad, frazzled business owners are serenaded by backlit, windswept candidates who are then verified and hired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,89382,6068,134],"class_list":["post-905927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-employment-hero","tag-hiring","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}