Recruitment

Kevin Wheeler resides in the highest echelon of recruitment and talent experts. I watch and learn from Kevin every year when he closes the annual Australasian Talent Conference (ATC) with his Fearless Forecast. Kevin not only knows what issues, topics, and trends to pay attention to in the world of talent and recruitment he knows…

One of the influential books in the field of behavioural economics is Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness written by University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein, first published in 2008. Thaler and Sunstein’s premise was that humans make predictable mistakes because of their use of heuristics (decision-making shortcuts), fallacies, and the…

Continuing my theme from last week’s blog, celebrating International Women’s Day, here are the second twelve outstanding women in the recruitment industry, in alphabetical order by first name. Angela Anasis Angela joined my division at Recruitment Solutions in 1998 as a graduate and immediately impressed me with her positive, team-oriented attitude. Rarely without a smile…

Tuesday 9 March was International Women’s Day. A handful of women provided me with almost everything I learned about agency recruitment for the first six years of my career. I owe my start in this great industry to the four women who interviewed me for my first job at Accountancy Personnel, Victoria (London) office. My…

The Adecco Group released its December 2020 quarterly results yesterday, making it the last of the group of fourteen global recruitment agencies that I have been tracking this year to release to do so. The good news is that the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic became progressively less damaging on the global recruitment sector,…

You have to hand it to Andrew Bassat and the SEEK board. For the past two years they have been trodden their own path, seemingly unencumbered by any doubts, dismissive of criticism and impervious to any potential backlash against the contentious decisions they were making, or the business activities they were endorsing. The verdict from…

The original purpose of the office was simple – as a knowledge worker, it was the place you had to attend in order to do your job. For (almost) every employee not out ‘in the field’ selling, building, fixing, cleaning, or transporting something, all the resources you needed to do your job were only available…

Recruiters quickly understand the realities of a changing labour market because we are immersed in that market each day. Employers who aren’t in the labour market every day (and even many of those that are) don’t want to hear that the labour market has changed in a way that creates more challenges for them. Unfortunately,…

On the Monday immediately before the Melbourne Cup public holiday my wife and I decided to buy some new outdoor furniture (two couches and an umbrella), for use the next day when we were having guests around. We drove to our closest outdoor furniture store and were served by the store’s manager. After finding out…

To finish 2020 here’s a quick summary of good news, not-so-good news, the same old story and, to conclude, I offer a few things to think about as you contemplate 2021. The good news Australia is officially out of recession, with the economy expanding 3.3 per cent in the September quarter as restrictions eased and…