Posts by Ross Clennett

Earlier this year I wrote How I didn’t deal with professional heartbreak in which I chronicled my decades-long unresolved emotions arising from the messy exit at my long-time employer. The post was given a wider audience thanks to Recruiting Brainfood curator, Hung Lee, featuring it in issue 438 Comments and private messages from others who…

The new Albanese ministry was announced earlier in the week, and there were some changes at the top of the ministries that are most relevant for the labour market and the recruitment industry. I solicited some comments from RCSA CEO, Charles Cameron, an experienced industrial relations advocate, for some recruitment industry context. Cameron prefaced his…

Australia’s Federal Labor Government retained power with 89 confirmed seats in the House of Representatives as of last night. Just under 20 per cent of the national count remains as a record number of pre-polling day votes are still being counted. Aside from the near-obliteration of the Liberal Party’s representation in the country’s capital cities…

The future of AI replacing humans in what have been seen as very human jobs was revealed last month when Australian Radio Network (ARN), was outed for failing to tell its listeners that the new host for their CADA station’s 11 am to 3 pm weekday shift was Thy, an AI-generated creation. The show, called…

Aah, the innocence and naivety of the young entrepreneur who says, “The recruitment industry is stuck in the past,” as she confidently launches her app to “make hiring faster, smarter and more human.” Yes, it’s another start-up owner who wants to “revolutionise the way people hire and find jobs.” Last Wednesday, Startup Daily covered the…

After the disconcerting drop in employment last month, the ABS released the March labour market results today and the news was positive. Although the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose 0.1% to 4.1%, total employment rose 32,200, well above the average monthly rise of 25,670 over the past 12 months. The participation rate rose back to…

May you live in interesting times. After the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns and border closures, we could be excused for thinking that we had experienced our fair share of ‘interesting times’ for this decade. Obviously not. U.S. President Donald Trump announced his new tariff regime last week; one that impacts almost…

Australian hiring managers and recruiters in the 2040s will be seeing many candidates called Oliver and Charlotte, according to McCrindle’s recently released Top 10 baby names for the past year. ​ Oliver has been crowned the top baby boy name for the 12th year in a row. The other nine names on the list of top…

I have spent the past week absorbed in Careless People, a memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former senior employee of Facebook (now Meta) for nearly seven years between 2011 and 2017. A former New Zealand diplomat, Wynn-Williams, relentlessly pursued Facebook executives to convince them there was an emerging opportunity for Facebook to engage with governments…

Today is a very sad day for the recruitment industry.At 1 pm, Edmund Gill’s funeral service will commence in North Sydney and it will be packed with many devastated people from our industry.Ed was killed in a tragic accident at his family property on Sunday, 23 February. He was two weeks younger than me.I first met Ed…