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Today is a very sad day for the recruitment industry.At 1 pm, Edmund Gill’s funeral service will commence in North Sydney and it will be packed with many devastated people from our industry.Ed was killed in a tragic accident at his family property on Sunday, 23 February. He was two weeks younger than me.I first met Ed…

Sue Healy is a very smart person; I have nothing but respect for her entrepreneurship, leadership, and clarity of thought. You don’t have consistent success over four decades in this industry without a deep understanding of the forces of internal and external change. Last Thursday at Bullhorn Engage at Royal Randwick, Sue, in her role…

Just over half of large Australian employers have improved their gender pay gap in the most recent reporting period, compared to the previous year. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) revealed the pay gaps at nearly 8,000 employers this week. This is the second year the agency has publicly reported company-level salary information for employers…

Adecco Australia’s managing director of defence force recruiting, Gene Crowe, quietly departed last month after 21 months in the role as The Australian,, reported ($ link) earlier in the week that the performance period of Adecco’s ADF recruitment contract had been extended by six months. In July 2022, Adecco was announced as the winner of…

On the last day of June 2001 I left a company that had consumed my professional life. After over a decade of hard work, success and fun, it was all over. Events at the company had taken an unexpected turn in the previous twelve months and the bright future I envisaged was no more. Although…

On Tuesday morning industry news service Shortlist published a short article informing subscribers of its own demise. I was surprised, not shocked but incredibly disappointed. As long-term readers would know, many of my forensic pieces referenced information first published by Shortlist. The most highly-viewed of those blogs are: Big bang start-ups: The rise and fall…