Posts by Ross Clennett
Interview with 2019 RCSA (NZ) Recruitment Leader of the Year: Angela Cameron of Consult
Two weeks’ ago, the RCSA announced the winners of the New Zealand industry awards. The winner of the Recruitment Leader of the Year was Consult’s Angela Cameron. After completing her undergraduate degree at Victoria University in Wellington in the late 1990s, Angela commenced her professional career as an auditor at Big 4 professional services firm;…
Read MoreAustralia’s worst directors culpable as Rubicor collapses
One of the most unsurprising events of 2019 occurred on Monday: Rubicor’s directors finally called in administrators (FTI Consulting) to take charge of the company they had gradually destroyed over the past four years. Yes, in layman’s terms Rubicor finally ran out of money and have gone broke. Rubicor’s auditors, Pitcher Partners, unambiguously flagged the…
Read MoreThe permanent long weekend (on full pay): recruiters lead the charge
I read between fifty and a hundred articles each week, every week of the year. I am a voracious consumer of content on recruitment, employment, productivity, high performance and leadership. It takes a something pretty special to impact me significantly. A year ago, this week, I read such an article. It struck me right between…
Read MoreInterview with 2019 RCSA Recruiter of the Year: Seamus Scanlon of Davidson
One of the most competitive gongs in the local recruitment industry is the coveted RCSA Recruitment Professional of the Year. This year the winner was Seamus Scanlon from Davidson. Three years ago Seamus joined Davidson after spending the previous five years recruiting construction project managers in two different agencies. Within two years he was recruiting…
Read MoreAll great recruiting questions must be BACON
The 2019 Australasian Talent Conference was another excellent mix of speakers, vendors and networking. Xref CEO and Co-founder, Lee-Martin Seymour’s session on the second day; The Art of Asking Great Questions provided an example of what all excellent conference presentations contain: brevity, humour, credibility, stories, value and a memorable model, acronym or concept. Xref’s ten…
Read MoreRandstad and Adelaide boutique sweep HRD Recruiter of the Year awards
Underwood Executive (L to R): Vanessa Jones, Nikki Hentschke, Nicole Underwood, Eloise Nicholson. HR Director magazine has announced its winners of their 2019 Australian Recruiter of the Year awards. The winners are decided by respondents (internal recruiters and relevant HR professionals) nominating the best recruitment agency, from their dealings with external recruiters over the…
Read MoreRubicor: the incompetence and delusion continues
As hard as it is to believe, things have deteriorated further at Rubicor since I last commented on their performance in late February. On 1 March Rubicor were one of only eleven public companies (out of approximately 2200 listed on the ASX) to have trading in their shares suspended by the ASX for failing to…
Read Morep2p’s Mark Smith: from failed accountant to outstanding CEO
I first met Mark Smith in 1994. I was a consultant in the Temporary Solutions Sydney temp accounting team and Mark has been hired to work on the North Sydney accounting temp desk which was situated in the same office, at Level 12, 275 George Street. Mark had given up his going-nowhere career at Deloitte…
Read MoreArrogant employers inflict more self-harm
Why do generally law-abiding citizens do illegal, stupid and risky things? It’s a question that continues to reverberate inside my head as a watch episodes of National Geographic’s latest reality offering; Airport Security Peru. In each week’s episode another two or three drug mules are caught attempting to smuggle cocaine through Jorge Chavez International Airport…
Read MoreDiscriminatory, hypocritical and narcissistic employers their own worst enemy
It doesn’t take too long before you see yet another article quoting an employer or employer group documenting or lamenting the dearth of skilled or motivated job seekers. The culprits for such a sorry state of affairs are invariably one, or a combination of; the inadequate education and training system, the unrealistic expectations of job…
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