Recruitment

Just before Christmas 2016 the Clarius/Ignite board decided that one of their own, Julian Sallabank, was to be the company’s new CEO, replacing the departed Peter Wilson. At the time of the Sallabank appointment I outlined why I thought the Clarius/Ignite board were likely to be making a mistake (again) in appointing a CEO with…

It would be tiny field of recruiters that could claim any right to my (self-proclaimed) title of Most Times Present at a Greg Savage Event. I estimated I have experienced 1570 Greg Savage professional development events* over the 28 years I have been (i) a recruiter in a company that Greg leads, (ii) a leader…

When the recruitment industry is going through a flat spot, it can provide false comfort to recruitment agency owners and leaders whose businesses are struggling to improve sales and profit. In these circumstances, it’s easy for an owner or leader to comfort themselves with the self-talk that their business is in reasonable shape. The belief…

I was conducting a coaching session with an owner of an emerging recruitment agency and he asked me a simple and rather obvious question, yet it was one I had not been asked before in such a concise way. We were discussing the development of leaders in his business. At that stage of his company’s…

In reflecting on my 30th anniversary in the recruitment industry I was thinking about what’s very different and what’s broadly the same now, compared to the late 1980s and early 1990s. One of the less obvious areas, but highly important, is risk and compliance. I worked at four different recruitment companies across my recruitment career…

This week I celebrate my 30 year anniversary of joining the recruitment industry. Day one of my career in recruitment was Monday 6 February 1989 at Accountancy Personnel (now Hays) 5-8 Glenn House, Stag Place, Victoria, London SW1E 5AG. Having departed Australia for Hong Kong on 19 December 1988 with a good friend of mine,…

It’s been quite a year. Politically, probably the less said the better. The ongoing chaos and scandal perpetuated by the respective governments of Australia, the UK and USA make 2018 a low year for political leadership. Surely 2019 has to be better? The Australian economy continued to grow strongly with 268,000 jobs (202, 000 full…

The bad news for Rubicor shareholders continues to roll on unabated. The only recent good news, announced to coincide with the Rubicor AGM on 30 November, was the resignation of CEO, David Hutchison, after presiding over three and half years of disastrous results. Unfortunately there was only bad news to follow. Firstly, Hutchison wasn’t going…

This week I completed my current season of the Rookie Recruiter Training Program; my live-hosted webinar weekly program for recent entrants to the recruitment industry that I have been running since 2010. The participants in the current season were a microcosm of a very welcome trend that has become more apparent to me over the…

For people, like me, who aren’t public company directors the position of ‘board member’ appears to be one of the least accountable positions available in the modern corporate world. The banking royal commission has laid bare the incredibly poor board oversight of some of Australia’s largest public companies. I suspect that many Australians would, rightly,…