Recruitment

A sure sign the recruitment market has tipped into something akin to gold rush fever is when articles such as Why you should consider starting a recruiting agency in 2022: The sky is the limit if you’re prepared to put the work in appear on reputable news sites such as Fast Company which published the…

Last week Hays plc released its first half trading results (1 July 2021 – 31 December 2021) for the 2022 financial year. The improvements on the comparison period for the previous year (1 July 2020 – 31 December 2020) were, as expected, significant given the different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hays Australia and New Zealand…

Given how difficult it is to attract relevant candidates for vacancies you would hope employers would be all over the aspects of their recruitment process that are completely within their control. Just-released research would indicate there is plenty of evidence to suggest that employers should focus on getting their own house in order before demanding…

In April 2019 SEEK CEO Andrew Bassat presented a trading update that outlined two levers for growth in the Australian and New Zealand job board market. “Aligning price to value” was the most significant of those two levers (Product Set Expansion being the other), which in layman’s terms means customers pay higher prices for ads…

It’s hard to miss the many, many surveys on employee engagement, worker intentions and related topics that vendors and consulting companies pump out on a regular basis. In one blog last year I referenced 14 such surveys or reports. Generalising about workers’ intentions can hide significant variations across different segments of the workforce, whether they…

The most recent HHMC Global Intentions Survey, released earlier this week, provided its usual feast of data to help owners and leaders compare the performance of their company with the broader industry. The financial data supported the commonly held view that the most recent half-year (July – December 2021) was a very positive one for…

The Australia of The Year has been a role that has dramatically increased in profile over recent years. Adam Goodes’s 2014 Award was one that brought out the worst in some people and the most recent recipient, Grace Tame, had her body language at an Australia Day function this week generate mass media coverage, both…

          Ben Wood (1995 and 2021)  Ben Wood is a name not many of you will be familiar with. Only his colleagues and those at the pointy end of Australia’s largest IT recruiters are likely to know who Ben is. Yet Ben is one of the most accomplished leaders of the…

                My 14 October blog FOMO and 6 other reasons ‘the great resignation’ will hit Australia in 2022, has become my most-viewed (and commented) blog of the 45 blogs I have published this year. It’s hardly surprising, as it’s a topic that has burst out of the recruitment…

As I highlighted in last week’s blog those agencies who recruit for governments at Federal, state and local levels have to deal with counter-productive contract terms, red tape, slow payments and onerous reporting requirements, amongst other frustrations. A much lower profile risk, but a real risk nonetheless is the potential for inadvertent involvement in the…