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

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Rookie Recruiter
Training Program

Agency recruiters in their first
year of recruitment

Next program commences
25 February 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
19 March 2025

Individual
Coaching Program

Tailored programs designed for
owners and leaders

Owners' Coaching
Group Program

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

The life advice I gave my 17-year-old son this week

My youngest child, James (pictured right, at his year 11 formal, July 2024), started his final year of secondary school last week. The school requested the year 12 parents write a letter of encouragement to their child; a letter to be read by the student during year 12 camp, which was held earlier this week.…
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Shared-house living was the responsibility and chaos I needed at 22

My 18 year-old nephew, Ned, arrived in Sydney last week. Fresh from a stereotypical English land-owning rural life divided between boarding school and his father’s farm, he’s here for the upcoming Sydney club rugby season, hoping to gain some valuable experience after the last six years spent playing schoolboy rugby. Three rugby-playing schoolmates have joined…
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More wishful thinking on talent practises in the latest WEF Future of Jobs Report

The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 was released two weeks ago and it’s already captured plenty of headlines The report surveyed more than 1,000 companies worldwide—representing 22 industry clusters and more than 14 million workers—to assess the job market and uncover how organisations expect it to evolve between now and 2030. A…
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Australia adds an average of 1,149 jobs per day (for the past 4 years)

On 23 November 2023 Deloitte Access Economics’ (DAE) weekly email was devoted to forecasting the labour market in 2024, including the following. Deloitte Access Economics expects tougher economic conditions to weigh down on firm hiring decisions. We are forecasting national employment growth of just 0.5% (75,000 workers) in calendar year 2024, before gradually increasing to…
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Sharp & Carter culture under the microscope as unflattering video captures the headlines

It’s a slow news week this week. It must be very slow to feature a ‘viral video’ that, in reality, shows nothing more than a business owner clarifying expectations and making recommendations about Christmas party behaviour. In case you missed it, there were numerous articles in the mainstream media about a video circulated by a…
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What is ‘potential’ (and how did I squander mine)?

When I was a budding young cricketer in 1980s Hobart (see photo, right, about to go out to bat), I was told I had ‘potential,’ but although I did score three centuries in various grades at my club, I wasn’t consistent and played less than a dozen games at a first-grade level where my top…
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