Posts by Ross Clennett

On Sunday my youngest son’s soccer team opened their 2024 season with a 0 – 3 defeat. The new coach was very instructive from the sidelines throughout the game, in contrast to the team’s most recent previous coach. Last night the coach had the players watch the entire game on the big screen at the…

If you were just paying attention to headlines in the mainstream media you would be forgiven for thinking that the bosses have won and remote work is declining and on its way to being the blip on the radar it was pre-pandemic. In London The Financial Times reported professional services firm EY has started monitoring…

My sons, my wife and I (pictured above) were privileged to be guests of The Mother’s Day Classic Foundation (MDCF) donation announcement at The Langham in late October. In 2023, the Mother’s Day Classic recorded incredible growth, with participation up 30 per cent on 2022 with 65,000 Australians participating in 73 locations. The donation to…

The perennial misunderstanding of the key skills and core competencies that make up the job of a recruitment consultant is formalised in the Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) website. JSA is the Albanese government’s replacement for the Morrison government’s National Skills Commission. Its mission “is to be a catalyst in activating the potential of Australia’s…

One of the highlights of the recent ATC was an on-stage interview between SMAART Recruitment Director, James Witcombe and SMAART Recruitment co-founder, Stu Holmes (pictured above). Holmes was Witcombe’s boss for ten years before Holmes left SMAART in 2015. Holmes left SMAART because his substance abuse led to untenable behavioural problems at work. Following his…

I returned from last week’s Australasian Talent Conference (ATC) with renewed optimism about the increasing importance of workers, recruitment and recruitment agencies. Listening to world-leading talent experts, Dart Lindsley and Kevin Wheeler and other presenters on the various speaker stages at Luna Park, together with recent survey and data releases, reinforced my positive mindset. The…

Sydney contract recruiter, Colin Kerr passed away as a result of a tragic accident on Melbourne Cup afternoon. Colin had worked at [axr] Recruitment & Search for nearly three years, having previously worked in Australia at u&u recruitment partners (5 years), Talent 2 (nearly 10 years), Ambition (18 months) and Morgan and & Banks (5…

Earlier this year my eldest son, then 23, quit his graduate job after months. There were a number of things he found frustrating with his employer however one of the most significant was he didn’t know whether he was meeting his boss’s expectations. There had been a complete absence of feedback. The final straw on…

If there was any doubt as to the importance of effective recruiters and recruitment processes to the many and varied public sector employers it’s been made plain by recent moves in both Australia and across the Pacific. The Federal Government, this week, announced the funding of 5000 scholarships to teaching students who begin studying in…

The recruitment processes that allowed “me too” agencies to survive, or even thrive, in past decades are struggling today. Those business-sustaining personal relationships fade over time and are not sufficient to ensure success. Who would have imagined your suitability as a recruitment agency would be determined by quality processes, compliance, technology capability, data security, account…