Posts by Ross Clennett

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…

Sue Healy is a very smart person; I have nothing but respect for her entrepreneurship, leadership, and clarity of thought. You don’t have consistent success over four decades in this industry without a deep understanding of the forces of internal and external change. Last Thursday at Bullhorn Engage at Royal Randwick, Sue, in her role…

Just over half of large Australian employers have improved their gender pay gap in the most recent reporting period, compared to the previous year. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) revealed the pay gaps at nearly 8,000 employers this week. This is the second year the agency has publicly reported company-level salary information for employers…

Adecco Australia’s managing director of defence force recruiting, Gene Crowe, quietly departed last month after 21 months in the role as The Australian,, reported ($ link) earlier in the week that the performance period of Adecco’s ADF recruitment contract had been extended by six months. In July 2022, Adecco was announced as the winner of…