Posts by Ross Clennett

Over the past four weeks I have spoken to a large range of recruitment agency owners and executives, ranging from those who have no employees to those who leading some of the biggest agencies in the country. The general mood, perhaps surprisingly, is quite upbeat. I put that down to six factors: leaders of recruitment…

The old saying “A week is a long time in politics” is sure to be replaced, at least temporarily, with “A week is a long time in the COVID-19 world”. The success of social distancing, a partial shutdown and stay-at-home orders has seen a flattening of the Australian COVID-19 ‘curve’ that’s well ahead of most…

It seems hard to believe that the initial Covid-19 restrictions, enacted by the Federal Government and the respective state governments, came into effect only three weeks ago. Normal life, as we knew it, already seems a distant memory. It’s hard to contemplate how we might be feeling this time in June if the current restrictions…

(L to R, Alfred, Clennett, Jim Clennett, Guy Clennett, circa early 1916) I’ve been in hospital over the past seven days. Last Wednesday I had surgery to remove a lesion in my large bowel. The lesion was discovered, via a colonoscopy, after I had collapsed in agony at home on the morning of Valentine’s Day.…

There’s been plenty written about the impact, economic-wise and health-wise, of COVID-19. I don’t intend to add to it, merely to point you to the useful resources I have discovered. I will update this page regularly: Recruiters, this is our time to step up! (Greg Savage’s excellent new blog post on how you might take…

Hays plc has long been a benchmark company for our industry both globally and locally. I pay close attention to what they are doing and delivering not just because my first job in recruitment was with Hays (in London) but because I continue to learn from the way the Hays effectively executes its global growth…

Last week saw the passing of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated CEOs, Jack Welch, at the age of 84. Welch joined General Electric (GE) in 1960 as a junior electrical engineer and progressed rapidly through the organisation reaching the top job in 1981. He served as CEO and Executive Chairman of GE until…

This week Australia and New Zealand’s most successful recruitment agency franchisor, Frontline Recruitment Group (FRG), announced the sale of its operations to US-based Express Employment Professionals. FRG origins go way back to 1994, when Deb Davis, a former Retail Manager and Trainer started her own retail training business. The demand from her clients to help…

Last year I wrote about the ghosting experience my wife had received from SMS Global in Melbourne, subsequent to her three interviews for the GM- HR role that the company had advertised. Local Talent Acquisition professional, Stan Rolfe, wrote about his job-seeking experiences in July 2019 (his post was the most-viewed of 2019 on the…

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…