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Ross Clennett is a high performance recruitment coach committed to raising the ethics and performance of the recruitment industry.

Ross delivers specialist public and internal programs for owners, leaders, and recruitment consultants.

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Rookie Recruiter
Training Program

Agency recruiters in their first
year of recruitment

Next program commences
3 June 2025

Advanced
Recruiter Program

Agency recruiters with a minimum of two years
recruitment experience

Next program commences
3 April 2025

Leadership Coaching for High Performance Program

Owners of small agencies, and team leaders of medium to large recruitment agencies

Next program commences
2 July 2025

Individual
Coaching Program

Tailored programs designed for
owners and leaders

Conference Speaking

Relevant, stimulating and educational up-to-date presentations for your inhouse or public conference about the labour market, recruitment industry or recruitment skills

UK recruitment market faltering as the Australian labour market powers on

After the disconcerting drop in employment last month, the ABS released the March labour market results today and the news was positive. Although the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose 0.1% to 4.1%, total employment rose 32,200, well above the average monthly rise of 25,670 over the past 12 months. The participation rate rose back to…
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Where your focus should be (no matter what the markets are doing)

May you live in interesting times. After the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns and border closures, we could be excused for thinking that we had experienced our fair share of ‘interesting times’ for this decade. Obviously not. U.S. President Donald Trump announced his new tariff regime last week; one that impacts almost…
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Lots of Olivers and Charlottes will be employed in the 2040s

Australian hiring managers and recruiters in the 2040s will be seeing many candidates called Oliver and Charlotte, according to McCrindle’s recently released Top 10 baby names for the past year. ​ Oliver has been crowned the top baby boy name for the 12th year in a row. The other nine names on the list of top…
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How not to lead ethically (an exposé of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook)

I have spent the past week absorbed in Careless People, a memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former senior employee of Facebook (now Meta) for nearly seven years between 2011 and 2017. A former New Zealand diplomat, Wynn-Williams, relentlessly pursued Facebook executives to convince them there was an emerging opportunity for Facebook to engage with governments…
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Vale Ed Gill

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…
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Why you should pay attention to what Sue Healy says

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…
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