Posts by Ross Clennett

Whenever you hear ‘choice’, ‘efficiency’ and ‘cost savings’ or similar platitudes being uttered by a self-styled ‘recruitment industry disruptor’ you should immediately be sceptical with respect to such claims. Your scepticism should rapidly elevate when, as is inevitable, the ‘disruptor’ asserts that they are not providing recruitment, placement or on-hire services, they are merely ‘connecting…

The inquiries into clusters of COVID-19 infections and deaths in both Victoria and New South Wales have uncovered an astonishing level of political and bureaucratic ignorance and naivety about both the recruitment industry and the technology platforms that deliver recruitment and on-hire staffing services. As I wrote in my blog four months ago;  In April…

InSight issue 600 arrives, today, nearly 13 years after the first issue of InSight was published, on 26 September 2007. In that original issue, I articulated my aim for this newsletter Each week I will write an article that may be an interview, an opinion piece (like this week), a skills article or something else.…

A telling sign as to how well a listed company is doing, or not doing, can be seen by how early, or late, in their investor presentation pack the key financial metrics are detailed. SEEK Limited released the presentation slides to accompany their full 2020 financial year results yesterday and it took until slide 9…

This week Victoria entered the harshest lockdown so far, in the fight to restrict the spread of the coronavirus. Premier Daniel Andrews, declared a state of disaster leading to the shutdown of most businesses and significantly greater restrictions on the operations of remaining, essential sectors. An evening curfew and other restrictions on peoples’ activities outside…

Four weeks’ ago, the RCSA announced the winners of the 2020 New Zealand industry awards. The winner of the Recruitment Leader of the Year was Stellar Recruitment’s Kymberly Tupai. While she was completing her Bachelor of Business, Kymberly was fortunate enough to be given a rigorous grounding in leading people by managing a Bunnings store…

Thirteen global recruitment agencies have recently released quarterly updates for trading results to 30 June. The results tell a strikingly similar tale: Note: All results are gross profit changes for the April – June quarter of 2020, compared to the same quarter in 2019, except SThree (Dec 2019 – May 2020, H1) and Outsourcing (Jan…

The most recent Hays Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) results, released last Thursday along with the company’s global half-year update, demonstrate, no matter the economic conditions, the local Hays business has no peer when it comes to consultant productivity. Here are the headline results based on my calculations from historical data and the H2 update…

In my adult life I have been at the centre of three significant disputes; all having occurred across a three year period when I was in my late thirties. One was as an employee and the others were as a business owner. Each dispute took months to resolve. Each dispute drained both my energy and…

                        Jason Elias, FRCSA is a shining example of how attracting high calibre young talent into our industry pays big dividends for the long term health of the recruitment sector. As a high achiever at school in Sydney, Jason completed a BA and a…