Posts by Ross Clennett

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

AI will inevitably eliminate 90% of human recruiters in volume recruitment within five years. Having watched the McHire Jobs presentation at ATC 2024 earlier this week by Robert Hunter, the manager of local employee experience at McDonald’s Australia and Ian McCreery, the head of strategic solutions at Paradox, it was clear that volume recruitment is…

According to an article last month in the Harvard Business Review, job hopping is likely to increase given the prevailing attitude of Gen Z workers. “Only 13% (of Gen Zs) intend to stay with their current employer beyond four years and 83% outwardly consider themselves to be job hoppers — as opposed to their older…

The RCSA has made another big step forward this year with the release, in conjunction with Mercer Consulting (Australia), of the first Australian Recruitment and Staffing Industry Remuneration Survey. Salary surveys of our industry are not new, but nobody has ever gone as deep as Mercer in receiving and reporting on the level of specific…

What if AI could interview any candidate who applied for a job, assess their answers, match them to open roles and rank them against the competing candidates for each role? If that AI was consistently and reliably effective, wouldn’t it supersede much of what a recruiter currently does? Well, the future has arrived, as that…