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Ross Clennett is a high performance recruitment coach providing
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Rookie Recruiter
Training Program

Agency recruiters in their first
year of recruitment 

Next program commences
28 May 2019

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Advanced
Recruiter Program

Agency recruiters with a minimum of two years
recruitment experience

Next program commences
7 March 2019

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Leadership Coaching for High Performance Program

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

Next program commences
18 March 2019

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Individual
Coaching Program

Tailored programs designed for
owners and leaders

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Owners' Coaching
Group Program

A year-long  collaborative group program designed to create a solid foundation for your agency’s growth.

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How recruitment agency owners become “yesterday’s hero”

By Ross Clennett | Mar 20, 2019
“Agency recruitment is not dying. In fact it’s thriving. But not for everyone! The winners will be the modern recruiters who evolve, re-tool, up-skill and re-invent. The rate of change in recruitment means the landscape is littered with yesterday’s heroes.”  Greg Savage, 24 May 2016 It’s nearly three years since Greg Savage posted his “yesterday’s…
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What does ‘good’ look like?

By Ross Clennett | Mar 13, 2019
Just before Christmas 2016 the Clarius/Ignite board decided that one of their own, Julian Sallabank, was to be the company’s new CEO, replacing the departed Peter Wilson. At the time of the Sallabank appointment I outlined why I thought the Clarius/Ignite board were likely to be making a mistake (again) in appointing a CEO with…
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Why I attended my 1570th Greg Savage event last week

By Ross Clennett | Mar 8, 2019
It would be tiny field of recruiters that could claim any right to my (self-proclaimed) title of Most Times Present at a Greg Savage Event. I estimated I have experienced 1570 Greg Savage professional development events* over the 28 years I have been (i) a recruiter in a company that Greg leads, (ii) a leader…
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Poorly performing agencies stay that way, regardless of the market

By Ross Clennett | Feb 25, 2019
When the recruitment industry is going through a flat spot with it can provide false comfort to recruitment agency owners and leaders whose businesses are struggling to improve sales and profit. In these circumstances it’s easy for an owner or leader to comfort themselves with the self-talk that their business is in reasonable shape. The…
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The future of leadership: effective collaboration

By Ross Clennett | Feb 19, 2019
I was conducting a coaching session with an owner of an emerging recruitment agency and he asked me a simple and rather obvious question, yet it was one I had not been asked before in such a concise way. We were discussing the development of leaders in his business. At that stage of his company’s…
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Compliance ignorance in recruitment: do you know what you’re really risking?

By Ross Clennett | Feb 12, 2019
In reflecting on my 30th anniversary in the recruitment industry I was thinking about what’s very different and what’s broadly the same now, compared to the late 1980s and early 1990s. One of the less obvious areas, but highly important, is risk and compliance. I worked at four different recruitment companies across my recruitment career…
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Talent Gap to recruit solely women candidates. Founder Siobhan Savage tells the ⁦@FinancialReview⁩ why. https://t.co/AfP47C1HQ2

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BIZTALK: Recruitment is like dating. Don't be the dud date | Sunshine Coast Daily ⁦@NaomiSimson⁩ discusses some lessons from her own experience and from ⁦@sharktankau⁩ ‘s Andrew Banks https://t.co/AXcRItZ7SH

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The Australian Government has slashed the number of permanent visas it grants every year while announcing two new 'geographically restricted' skilled visas for regional areas of the country. https://t.co/q6fw6jrb9x

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The disconnect between college curricula and the job market has a banal explanation: Educators teach what they know—and most have as little firsthand knowledge of the modern workplace as I do. https://t.co/TcX8ywPvKC @bryan_caplan in @TheAtlantic

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How recruitment agency owners become “yesterday’s hero” https://t.co/oEL1AXRRLu my latest blog

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