Recruitment
Recruitment Tech stocks fall: Are they all sizzle and no steak?
On Monday this week The Age carried a story headlined Freelancer: Australia’s fallen tech star. Age journalist John McDuling briefly lays out the Freelancer story from its well-publicised listing on the ASX in early 2013, its brief moment as a $1 billion capitalised company and the sober reality of its record low share price of…
Read MoreDoes anybody take CareerOne seriously any more?
“We’re not a job board anymore”: CareerOne CareerOne has abandoned its job board in favour of a “skills marketplace” …….. the company is now actively working to change perceptions about its business. ShortList, 11 March 2014 CareerOne strategy “Flipping 180 degrees” CareerOne is refocusing on its core job board platform as part of a strategy and…
Read MoreThe Power of Community: Thank you Robert van Stokrom and Charles Cameron
As I considered the impact of the 2017 RCSA International Conference: The Power of Community I started to write about the impact that the conference had on me. Then I read Aspect Personnel’s Founder and Managing Director, Matthew Sampson’s blog on the same topic. Matt perfectly captured what I, and I suspect many other delegates,…
Read MoreClarius Results: Sales slump in booming market and another full year loss
Clarius (I still can’t bring myself to call them by their awful new name, Ignite Services) has just reported a disastrous 2016/17 financial year result. In a year when Hays reported their combined Australian and New Zealand operations drove gross profit up by 11 per cent and operating profit up by 14%, Clarius managed to…
Read MoreWhat the Greatest Sports Coach of All Time taught us about high performance
ESPN had him ranked at number 2 in The Greatest Sports Coaches of the Twentieth Century behind NFL legend Vince Lombardi. Sporting News ranked him at number 1, ahead of Lombardi at number 2. Who is this man so revered by his peers? He is a man, I suspect, 99 per cent of readers would not have heard…
Read MoreSeek on the PR offensive: Move on, there’s nothing to see here
It’s been a fascinating past couple of months in the story of SEEK, via their fully or partially owned brands Onploy, Sidekicker and JoraLocal, competing against the recruitment agency segment of SEEK’s own customer base. It’s clear Seek have been mindful of the less-than-helpful publicity as a handful of my clients advised me that their…
Read MoreInterview with 2017 RCSA Professional Recruiter of the Year: Erin Devlin of people2people
At the recent RCSA Winter Ball we had the unprecedented situation of three finalists for the 2017 RCSA Professional Recruiter of the Year being employed at one company. I am fortunate to to know the individual merits of each of those finalists (Catherine Kennedy, Sam Palmer and Erin Devlin) and would not have wanted to select a…
Read MoreThe long game: is it Seek v Google (with agencies collateral damage)?
A couple of Seek-backed offerings, Onploy and Sidekicker, have created plenty of concern in the local recruitment industry over the past several weeks. Many meetings and phone calls have occurred between senior Seek executives and unhappy recruitment agency owners and the RCSA. At the time of writing, no definitive action has taken place but we…
Read MoreSidekicker: Seek like more than one kind of cake
Onploy, which I wrote about last week, is a product promoting permanent recruitment services. Seek’s product targeting temporary services, Sidekicker has also been creating waves of its own. Just over 12 months ago the AFR reported that “SEEK paid in the low single-digit million-dollar range for the stake, which is understood to be substantial but well…
Read MoreOnploy: Do Seek want to have their cake and eat it too (again)?
For the whole of Seek’s life there has been an uneasy alliance between Australia’s largest jobs board, Seek, and its recruitment agency clientele. In the early days, the large recruitment agencies were a very important foundation source of revenue for the fledging Seek at the end of the last millennium. Subsequent to Seek’s listing on…
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