Posts by Ross Clennett
Onploy: Do Seek want to have their cake and eat it too (again)?
For the whole of Seek’s life there has been an uneasy alliance between Australia’s largest jobs board, Seek, and its recruitment agency clientele. In the early days, the large recruitment agencies were a very important foundation source of revenue for the fledging Seek at the end of the last millennium. Subsequent to Seek’s listing on…
Read MoreATC Summary: How to avoid being AI-ed out of your job or career
The standout, among many highlights, of each annual Australian Talent Conference is the closing keynote. ATC co-founder, and one of the most respected people in the world of recruitment, Kevin Wheeler, traditionally closes the two conference days with his Fearless Forecast presentation in which he makes predictions about the way in which companies hire and get…
Read MoreIs that a muddy, smelly swamp I see at the end of the lowest-price highway?
In a recent conversation with a recruitment agency owner, we were discussing the latest demands for margin reductions. He informed me that one of his clients wanted to include his agency on the (ASX-listed) company’s PSA to supply IT contractors. On the surface, this would appear to be good news. However the sting in the…
Read MoreInterview with 2017 RI Recruiter of the Year: Matthew Cossens of Aurec
Ross: What was your background prior to becoming a recruiter and how did you come to choose recruitment as a career? Matthew: Prior to recruitment I was working as both a Fishmonger and in Retail Sales while completing a Bachelor Degree in HR/Management. On completing my degree it was recommended that I try a career in…
Read MoreOne year on: Interview with RCSA CEO, Charles Cameron
Charles Cameron, addressing the RCSA International Conference, 25 August 2016 Port Douglas, Queensland Ross: Welcome Charles and congratulations on your one year anniversary with the RCSA. How different, or similar, has your experience of the role been compared to your expectations of the role when you started in May last year? Charles: Hi Ross, to be honest, the amount…
Read MoreAccurately assessing soft skills: A huge opportunity for recruiters
Soft skills, behavioural competencies, transferable skills, personal attributes, employability skills, capabilities; no matter what you might know them as, these non-technical skills are important at work and becoming more so. Deloitte Access Economics explores this topic in their recently released report, Soft skills* for business success (It’s a very readable and interesting report and I recommend you…
Read MoreOne gender pay gap explanation: Women are less likely to negotiate
Recently I read through the excellent Richard Lloyd Sydney Accounting Salary Report – 2017. I have seen many salary surveys over the years and most are a boring copy of each other with very little new to say about the data that has been gathered. The pedestrian reporting of salary differentials across skill levels, although…
Read MoreABS Update: Contractors hit 1 million; weekly agency temp market 133,500
Last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics released Characteristics of Employment (6333.0, August 2016) which is always an interesting peek under the hood of the Australian labour market. Here are some selected pieces of data from the survey (all data is at August 2016): Contractors There were just over1 million persons who were independent contractors 72% male, 28%…
Read MoreBreast cancer: You can help me eradicate this devastating disease
The Mother’s Day Classic (MDC) walk or run for breast cancer research was established in 1998 – it started from modest beginnings as a walk in the park and has grown into a major national community event. From the inaugural events in Melbourne and Sydney which attracted approximately 3,200 people, the event has now become…
Read MoreWhy do employers continually fail at onboarding?
Allegis Group have just released an excellent report Explore what sets high-performing recruitment organisations apart, a paper that offers insights from nearly 12,000 employers and candidates across various industries and functions from North America and the EMEA and APAC regions, revealing benchmarks that set high-performing recruitment organisations apart. There are a number of very useful data points on recruitment…
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