Recruitment
Interview with 2025 RCSA (Aus) Recruitment Professional of the Year: Laura Frazer of Frazer Tremble
Last month at the Rec Gala in Sydney, Laura Frazer, was announced as the 2025 winner of the RCSA Recruitment Professional award (pictured, right, with award sponsor SEEK representative, Ben Vague). Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Laura completed undergraduate studies in Criminology and Criminal Justice then started her professional life with the Halifax Bank…
Read MoreFWC bombshell ruling on overseas-based workers a win for the recruitment industry
The whole premise of outsourcing work to overseas workers to save on Australian wages and salaries has been thrown into doubt with a recent ruling by the Fair Work Commission (FWC). An outsourced worker in the Philippines has won her case against an Australian business in the FWC, after her former employer recently lost an appeal…
Read MoreGeoff Morgan predicted LinkedIn three years before it was launched
Yesterday I had reason to reach for Tony Hall’s excellent book, First Interview. Published in 2000, the book features twenty-two of the most prominent and successful recruitment agency owners and leaders of that era. Almost all of them are now retired and, sadly, a handful are no longer with us. Having quickly found what I…
Read MoreRecruiters get ready – the unsettling impact of GenAI on careers is just beginning
Earlier this year I wrote How I didn’t deal with professional heartbreak in which I chronicled my decades-long unresolved emotions arising from the messy exit at my long-time employer. The post was given a wider audience thanks to Recruiting Brainfood curator, Hung Lee, featuring it in issue 438 Comments and private messages from others who…
Read MoreWhat can the recruitment industry expect from the re-elected Labor government?
The new Albanese ministry was announced earlier in the week, and there were some changes at the top of the ministries that are most relevant for the labour market and the recruitment industry. I solicited some comments from RCSA CEO, Charles Cameron, an experienced industrial relations advocate, for some recruitment industry context. Cameron prefaced his…
Read MoreThe Liberal Party takes a punishing lesson from women (again) – but will they listen?
Australia’s Federal Labor Government retained power with 89 confirmed seats in the House of Representatives as of last night. Just under 20 per cent of the national count remains as a record number of pre-polling day votes are still being counted. Aside from the near-obliteration of the Liberal Party’s representation in the country’s capital cities…
Read MoreAI clones Australian radio host for 6 months (and nobody notices)
The future of AI replacing humans in what have been seen as very human jobs was revealed last month when Australian Radio Network (ARN), was outed for failing to tell its listeners that the new host for their CADA station’s 11 am to 3 pm weekday shift was Thy, an AI-generated creation. The show, called…
Read More“The recruitment industry is stuck in the past” and more greatest hits from the latest recruitment disruptor
Aah, the innocence and naivety of the young entrepreneur who says, “The recruitment industry is stuck in the past,” as she confidently launches her app to “make hiring faster, smarter and more human.” Yes, it’s another start-up owner who wants to “revolutionise the way people hire and find jobs.” Last Wednesday, Startup Daily covered the…
Read MoreUK recruitment market faltering as the Australian labour market powers on
After the disconcerting drop in employment last month, the ABS released the March labour market results today and the news was positive. Although the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose 0.1% to 4.1%, total employment rose 32,200, well above the average monthly rise of 25,670 over the past 12 months. The participation rate rose back to…
Read MoreWhere your focus should be (no matter what the markets are doing)
May you live in interesting times. After the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns and border closures, we could be excused for thinking that we had experienced our fair share of ‘interesting times’ for this decade. Obviously not. U.S. President Donald Trump announced his new tariff regime last week; one that impacts almost…
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