Expert professional development
for the recruitment industry
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.
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
Leadership Coaching for High Performance Program
Owners of small agencies, and team leaders of medium to large recruitment agencies
Next program commences
5 November 2026
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HiTech: who owns it, runs it, and are they any good at it?
By Ross Clennett |
On Monday morning, HiTech Australia Group announced to the ASX its deal to acquire the distressed assets of Hudson Australia from the company’s administrators. “HiTech Group Australia Limited has announced its acquisition of Hudson Global Resources Australia, aiming to create a leading national workforce solutions and professional services platform. The transaction, valued at A$7 million,…
Read More Victorian LHA excoriates Hudson directors Mark Steyn and Kendall Ryan
By Ross Clennett |
Photo credit: Hudson Australia website Correspondence released to Hudson’s creditors on Friday paints a damning and devastating critique of the conduct of the company’s two directors, Mark Steyn (above, left) and Kendall Ryan, (above, right), and also calls into question the information provided to creditors by the company’s administrators, Glenn Livingstone, Benjamin Ho and Nicholas…
Read More Vale R.W “Bill” Pollock, the founder of the global staffing industry
By Ross Clennett |
Bill Pollock, the founder of Drake International, passed away peacefully last week at his home in Monaco, at the age of 97. Born Robert William Pollock in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1928, the youngest of nine children of Austrian and Polish immigrants, Pollock grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930s. As a teen, he…
Read More Another recruitment industry ‘disruptor’ fails as JobMatched folds
By Ross Clennett |
Job Matched, owned by female beauty entrepreneur Kayla Parry, which promised “A recruitment platform that combines the simplicity of dating app swiping with AI-powered soft skills matching…….” has ceased operating with the company’s website no longer accessible. After launching the business in April 2022, three years of investment had failed to gain any traction, so…
Read More Hudson hanging on by a thread as the bad news keeps coming
By Ross Clennett |
Victoria’s Labour Hire Authority delivered a damning assessment of Hudson Australia’s recent operating history when it cancelled the company’s labour hire licence on Friday. Less than 48 hours after the reconvened second creditors’ meeting voted to return the company’s control to the same people who called in the administrators ten weeks ago, LHA commissioner Steve…
Read More The warrior queen departs Hays after a legendary near four-decade career
By Ross Clennett |
I heard about Jane McNeill many months before I met her. I joined Accountancy Personnel (or ‘AP’ as it was then known, before it became Hays) in London in February 1989, when the undisputed fee king of AP was Jonathan Farn. Farn was the manager of the largest AP office, which was referred to throughout…
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