Recruitment

After 20 years, I’m ceasing recruitment training and moving my blog and my weekly newsletter to the online publishing platform Substack. Today I sent the last issue of my weekly newsletter, InSight, 18 years and 10 months after issue 1 was circulated to 17 subscribers on 26 September 2007 Recently, I’ve had more reason than…

Until last month, hardly anybody in the local recruitment industry had heard of HiTech Group Australia. Last week, this small ASX-listed company entered a binding agreement to buy the remaining assets of Hudson Australia from the company’s administrators. On the numbers alone, it’s a unique deal, one without precedent in the local industry The deal…

On Monday morning, HiTech Australia Group announced to the ASX its deal to acquire the distressed assets of Hudson Australia from the company’s administrators. “HiTech Group Australia Limited has announced its acquisition of Hudson Global Resources Australia, aiming to create a leading national workforce solutions and professional services platform. The transaction, valued at A$7 million,…

Photo credit: Hudson Australia website Correspondence released to Hudson’s creditors on Friday paints a damning and devastating critique of the conduct of the company’s two directors, Mark Steyn (above, left) and Kendall Ryan, (above, right), and also calls into question the information provided to creditors by the company’s administrators, Glenn Livingstone, Benjamin Ho and Nicholas…

Bill Pollock, the founder of Drake International, passed away peacefully last week at his home in Monaco, at the age of 97. Born Robert William Pollock in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1928, the youngest of nine children of Austrian and Polish immigrants, Pollock grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930s. As a teen, he…

Job Matched, owned by female beauty entrepreneur Kayla Parry, which promised “A recruitment platform that combines the simplicity of dating app swiping with AI-powered soft skills matching…….” has ceased operating with the company’s website no longer accessible. After launching the business in April 2022, three years of investment had failed to gain any traction, so…

Victoria’s Labour Hire Authority delivered a damning assessment of Hudson Australia’s recent operating history when it cancelled the company’s labour hire licence on Friday. Less than 48 hours after the reconvened second creditors’ meeting voted to return the company’s control to the same people who called in the administrators ten weeks ago, LHA commissioner Steve…

I heard about Jane McNeill many months before I met her. I joined Accountancy Personnel (or ‘AP’ as it was then known, before it became Hays) in London in February 1989, when the undisputed fee king of AP was Jonathan Farn. Farn was the manager of the largest AP office, which was referred to throughout…

There’s a crisis brewing for many employers, and it potentially looms as good news for the recruitment industry, but not for all players. A recent story about a fictional candidate who beat 261 other applicants for a junior marketing role in the UK is just the tip of a large iceberg. Employers are discovering that…

Michael Jones, MRCSA was the popular winner of the 2026 RCSA (Aus) Recruitment Professional of the Year, announced at the Rec Gala at the Melbourne Town Hall on 21 May 2026. For the first time in the history of this award category, the winner was a person who operates predominantly as an industry vendor. Michael…