Posts by Ross Clennett
Rubicor liquidators (for $1.75 million) wade through a clusterpuck
Two weeks’ ago the Rubicor administrators, FTI Consulting, released their sixth public circular to creditors. FTI’s statutory report provides little comfort for the Group’s creditors, including many former employees. It’s a brief insight into the clusterpuck that Rubicor became under the incompetence, self-serving hypocrisy, obfuscation, lying and withholding of material information of Angus Mason, David…
Read MoreThe permanent long weekend (on full pay): February 2020 update
It was only in July last year that I wrote about the emergence of the four-days-work-for-five-days-pay employment model. I highlighted Melbourne recruitment agency Rusher Rogers as a local pioneer in this trend. The RCSA also wrote about the issue in the November 2019 issue of The Brief. In December, Finland’s new Prime Minister, Sanna Marin,…
Read MoreHow a leader’s EQ declines the more senior they become
Watching the performance of this country’s Prime Minister go from bad to worse to a surely-it-can’t-be-happening level of terrible has been one of the lowlights of my summer break. Political blogger, Andrew Street summarises the whole mess as well as anybody in his post from earlier this week; Let’s Be Honest, Scott Morrison is a…
Read MoreThe Hits and Misses of 2019: a reflection on the year that was
February marked the 30th anniversary of my first job in recruitment. I shared some extracts from my 1989 journal about my first few months as an agency recruiter at Accountancy Personnel (now Hays) in London. State-based labour licensing is now a reality around Australia. It marks a new elevation in the compliance obligations of recruitment…
Read MoreIgnite/Clarius auditors activate Code Red on the back of horrific 2019 results
The collapse of Rubicor four months ago means that the gong for the worst run publicly-listed recruitment company now passes to the directors of Ignite/Clarius. The Chairman of the Board is Garry Sladden. Twelve months ago I dissected the depressing and relentless decline of the company under Mr Sladden’s stewardship however I concluded my blog…
Read MoreMusings from the 2019 RCSA World Employment Conference (part 2): recommendations
In last week’s blog I offered my musings from the 2019 RCSA World Employment Conference. I summarised these musings under the structure I borrowed from presenter, Peter William’s concluding slide: Think ahead Orient towards partnerships It’s people with technology Learn faster to move faster Based on these musings I offer the following recommendations to recruitment…
Read MoreMusings from the 2019 RCSA World Employment Conference
The RCSA World Employment Conference: Leadership in a New World of Work, held on the Gold Coast three weeks’ ago was a big success. The speakers were uniformly excellent, the social events were fun and the networking was plentiful. I took plenty of notes and over the subsequent weeks I have written additional notes based…
Read MoreRecruitLoop shuts: Another recruitment ‘disruptor’ quietly dies
As the Australian recruitment industry continues to flourish one of the this decade’s more prominent recruitment industry disruptors quietly closed its doors recently. RecruitLoop launched in early 2011 promising a “stress-free recruitment process” while “slashing the cost of traditional recruitment support by up to 80%”. As any recruiter knows there’s no such thing as low-cost…
Read MoreSEEK’s surge pricing – the response and some 2020 predictions
It should be a very interesting few days on the Gold Coast this week. The World Employment Conference, co-hosted by the RCSA and the World Employment Confederation (with SEEK, along with Indeed, as Platinum Sponsors) as a kicks off at the Sheraton Mirage on Main Beach this afternoon. No doubt the hot topic of the…
Read MoreIt’s official – SEEK move to surge pricing
The big news for the local recruitment industry today was SEEK announcing, via an email to customers this morning, their long-anticipated move to variable pricing. No specific implementation date has been released other than it’s going to be post 1 December 2019. Variable pricing is the Holy Grail for job boards looking to leave as…
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