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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.

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 make three centuries in various grades at my club, I was never consistent and played less than a dozen games at a first-grade level where my…
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Why most recruitment agencies are suffering while unemployment is low

The unemployment rate is the most quoted figure in any report on the Australian labour market. If it’s going up, that’s reported as bad news (for workers and governments), and when it’s going down, it’s good news (more people employed means more taxes paid and more consumer demand). However, the unemployment rate is an incomplete…
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Objective and specific selection criteria underpin a better workplace (especially for women)

Most employers’ efforts to build a successful organisation stumble at the first hurdle – their recruitment process sucks is inadequate. Recruitment agencies are Exhibit A for the prosecution. Having worked with hundreds of recruitment agency owners and leaders throughout my 21 years in coaching and training, I’ve observed only a small minority that have established…
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What 1950s corporate Australia offered ‘girls’ who wanted to work

On the weekend, I was helping my auntie move house, and amongst her paperwork, I found a brochure from her first job – a trainee at the A.M.P. Society (now AMP Limited). These days it’s called a careers page. In those days (the late 1950s) large employers had a brochure. Here’s the employee value proposition.…
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Labour market realities will prevent Trump from deporting illegal migrants by the millions

After firing him from the same job four years ago, Americans just re-hired former President Donald Trump. In recruitment language, Mr. Trump is a boomerang hire. Mr. Trump takes office on 20 January next year and will complete his four-year term as the country’s oldest President, assuming he doesn’t die in office. It seems astonishing…
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Hays ANZ exits healthcare

Hays has decided to exit from servicing the largest employing sector in the country with the formal notification by the new global chief executive, Dirk Hahn, that healthcare and social assistance (HSA) was gone as a local specialism. It appears the Hays leadership team has decided the specialism does not offer sufficient potential to meet…
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