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I returned from last week’s Australasian Talent Conference (ATC) with renewed optimism about the increasing importance of workers, recruitment and recruitment agencies. Listening to world-leading talent experts, Dart Lindsley and Kevin Wheeler and other presenters on the various speaker stages at Luna Park, together with recent survey and data releases, reinforced my positive mindset. The…

Sydney contract recruiter, Colin Kerr passed away as a result of a tragic accident on Melbourne Cup afternoon. Colin had worked at [axr] Recruitment & Search for nearly three years, having previously worked in Australia at u&u recruitment partners (5 years), Talent 2 (nearly 10 years), Ambition (18 months) and Morgan and & Banks (5…

Earlier this year my eldest son, then 23, quit his graduate job after months. There were a number of things he found frustrating with his employer however one of the most significant was he didn’t know whether he was meeting his boss’s expectations. There had been a complete absence of feedback. The final straw on…

If there was any doubt as to the importance of effective recruiters and recruitment processes to the many and varied public sector employers it’s been made plain by recent moves in both Australia and across the Pacific. The Federal Government, this week, announced the funding of 5000 scholarships to teaching students who begin studying in…

The recruitment processes that allowed “me too” agencies to survive, or even thrive, in past decades are struggling today. Those business-sustaining personal relationships fade over time and are not sufficient to ensure success. Who would have imagined your suitability as a recruitment agency would be determined by quality processes, compliance, technology capability, data security, account…

I love that recruiters are, overwhelmingly, optimists. Optimists are generally great to work for and work with. I admit I am biased because optimism is my top character strength. However, this character strength may easily become a significant liability when a level of skepticism is necessary during the hiring process to ensure candidates are not…