Posts by Ross Clennett
Reflecting on 2018
It’s been quite a year. Politically, probably the less said the better. The ongoing chaos and scandal perpetuated by the respective governments of Australia, the UK and USA make 2018 a low year for political leadership. Surely 2019 has to be better? The Australian economy continued to grow strongly with 268,000 jobs (202, 000 full…
Read MoreBad news for Rubicor shareholders and staff comes in threes
The bad news for Rubicor shareholders continues to roll on unabated. The only recent good news, announced to coincide with the Rubicor AGM on 30 November, was the resignation of CEO, David Hutchison, after presiding over three and half years of disastrous results. Unfortunately there was only bad news to follow. Firstly, Hutchison wasn’t going…
Read Morepeople2people show the way 28 years after Leon Lau’s pioneering step
This week I completed my current season of the Rookie Recruiter Training Program; my live-hosted webinar weekly program for recent entrants to the recruitment industry that I have been running since 2010. The participants in the current season were a microcosm of a very welcome trend that has become more apparent to me over the…
Read MoreIgnite/Clarius board put on notice by shareholders at AGM
For people, like me, who aren’t public company directors the position of ‘board member’ appears to be one of the least accountable positions available in the modern corporate world. The banking royal commission has laid bare the incredibly poor board oversight of some of Australia’s largest public companies. I suspect that many Australians would, rightly,…
Read MoreHow Hays drives scalable and profitable growth around the globe
What’s the best free resource available for learning about scaling recruitment agency success? The Hays plc Annual Report would be a very strong contender. As I read through the recently released 2018 edition (yet another fascinating and insightful read) I was reminded of a presentation from the recent RCSA Conference in Noosa. President of Staffing…
Read MoreHow my first girlfriend lost her way, and her life
Amanda was my first serious girlfriend. She was funny, smart, sporty and cute. We met when I was just starting year 12 and she was a year below me. We were both 16. A talented hockey player, Amanda was selected in state under-age teams. After the game and after hours she was always the life…
Read MoreRubicor 2018 results: Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck
Earlier this year I published a couple of blogs that dissected the woeful and clueless performance of the executives leading Rubicor, after the company’s most recent half year update was released, covering the company’s performance for the July 2017 – December 2017 period. I concluded the first blog (15 March 2018) with: The share market…
Read MoreVale Kristen Florance (20 June 1965 – 3 October 2018)
The death of my sister, Mary, from breast cancer nearly 7 years ago, was the shocking event that opened my eyes to the reality that cancer, in all its many forms, was a heartbreak that many families have to face. Like Mary, many people die from cancer at an age when they should still have…
Read MoreInterview with 2018 RCSA (Aus) Recruitment Professional of the Year: Jane Lowney of Robert Walters
In June, the RCSA announced the winners of the Australian RCSA awards for 2018. The winner of the award for Recruitment Professional of the Year was Head of Engineering & Infrastructure at Robert Walters (Australia); Jane Lowney. Originally from Clonakilty, a small town on the south coast of Ireland, Jane studied Civil Engineering between 2005 and 2010 and always…
Read MoreThe aftermath of the FutureYou series
This week marks the 11th anniversary of the very first issue of InSight. In that time I have published over 500 blogs. Only a small number of these blogs have generated a strong reader reaction. However, there is no parallel with the response I have received as the FutureYou series of blogs (now posted as…
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