Posts by Ross Clennett

In April 2019 SEEK CEO Andrew Bassat presented a trading update that outlined two levers for growth in the Australian and New Zealand job board market. “Aligning price to value” was the most significant of those two levers (Product Set Expansion being the other), which in layman’s terms means customers pay higher prices for ads…

It’s hard to miss the many, many surveys on employee engagement, worker intentions and related topics that vendors and consulting companies pump out on a regular basis. In one blog last year I referenced 14 such surveys or reports. Generalising about workers’ intentions can hide significant variations across different segments of the workforce, whether they…

The most recent HHMC Global Intentions Survey, released earlier this week, provided its usual feast of data to help owners and leaders compare the performance of their company with the broader industry. The financial data supported the commonly held view that the most recent half-year (July – December 2021) was a very positive one for…

The Australia of The Year has been a role that has dramatically increased in profile over recent years. Adam Goodes’s 2014 Award was one that brought out the worst in some people and the most recent recipient, Grace Tame, had her body language at an Australia Day function this week generate mass media coverage, both…

          Ben Wood (1995 and 2021)  Ben Wood is a name not many of you will be familiar with. Only his colleagues and those at the pointy end of Australia’s largest IT recruiters are likely to know who Ben is. Yet Ben is one of the most accomplished leaders of the…

                My 14 October blog FOMO and 6 other reasons ‘the great resignation’ will hit Australia in 2022, has become my most-viewed (and commented) blog of the 45 blogs I have published this year. It’s hardly surprising, as it’s a topic that has burst out of the recruitment…

As I highlighted in last week’s blog those agencies who recruit for governments at Federal, state and local levels have to deal with counter-productive contract terms, red tape, slow payments and onerous reporting requirements, amongst other frustrations. A much lower profile risk, but a real risk nonetheless is the potential for inadvertent involvement in the…

Even after 32 years in the recruitment industry I am still slightly bewildered by the ignorance, or worse, lack of interest in educating themselves, which some very highly paid and senior people can demonstrate when it comes to understanding the realities of modern-day recruitment. This week another disappointing (depressing?) example was brought to my attention.…

I started my recruitment career when I was 22 years old. In my early twenties I experienced many consequences of the slow development of my prefrontal cortex. In other words, I did some dumb shit (DS). Some of that DS was at work where the consequences were greater than the DS I did outside of…

The appalling performance of Ignite (formerly Clarius, formerly Candle) across the past 8 years has been well documented by me over the years (most recently in 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017). The 2021 financial year results produced, yet another, operating loss at Ignite in a year that the Australian recruitment industry roared back into profit…