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Some slave labour with your free range chicken?
Anybody that viewed the recent 4 Corners ‘Slaving Away’ report (4 May, 2015) would have been absolutely appalled, as I was, at what they learned. Reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna lifted the lid on sham labour-hire contractors (to classify those operators exposed by 4 Corners as ‘labour-hire firms’ insults the vast majority of the ndustry who pride…
Read MoreWhy crap interviewers don’t know they are crap
Most people who conduct recruitment interviews have never been trained in how to interview effectively. Yet this lack of training doesn’t stop these interviewers from believing that they have good interview skills and don’t need any training. It’s called confirmation bias eg ‘I hired Gavin and he turned out to be a winner’. A view…
Read MoreFocus: Your future depends on it
Twenty four years’ ago I was in my fourth month of employment at Temporary Solutions in Sydney. I was an accounting temp consultant. Unemployment (7.9%) was continuing to rise, eventually peaking at 11.2% in November 1992. The market was tough. Jobs were hard to come by and good candidates were plentiful. One of the few…
Read MoreContingent recruitment: Are you a mug punter or a professional gambler?
The horse racing industry is built on the punter. Without the person prepared to bet on a horse(s) there is no horse racing industry. The financial interest of the punter ensures that the media rights are worth bidding for and the various clubs can offer prize money that makes it attractive for owners to invest…
Read MoreHelp find a way to have zero breast cancer deaths by 2030
Each year, for the past few years, my family and I have participated in the annual Mother’s Day Classic (MDC). In 2014, a record 130,000 people across Australia ran or walked in a Mother’s Day Classic event in eleven cities and 88 regional locations. Participants and fundraisers raised $4.5 million for National Breast Cancer…
Read MoreBe sceptical. Be thorough. Be proud of getting it right.
I am writing this pre-dawn. I need to write my blog before my very busy day of client work starts in a couple of hours’ time. I am feeling pleased that I have found via Twitter, what I think will be, a really interesting piece of research (below) that I will write about.…
Read MoreCulture is caught, not taught: 10 years of Kingfisher Recruitment
(L-R) Matthew, Mal and Rohan, enjoying the 2011 Kingfisher Christmas Party at the Kyneton races In 2006 I met Mal Stuart when he attended an RCSA Leadership workshop I was running. He and his business partner, Rohan Christie had started their own recruitment agency, Kingfisher Property Recruitment , the year previously and they…
Read MoreWe’re only just getting started: 10 years of people2people
Twenty two years ago I met Mark Smith when he joined my Recruitment Solutions Sydney temporary accounting team after deciding that a career as a Big 6 (now 4) auditor wasn’t for him. Shortly afterwards, ex-CBA Account Manager, Simon Gressier joined the permanent accounting team and a couple of months after that another bored accountant,…
Read MoreComplete Trust: It’s how you behave when it’s hard or inconvenient
I’ve recently embarked on some further study and one of the first things the program has had us closely consider is trust. Most people, including me, would find it relatively easy to identify those people we trust, those we don’t trust and those that are somewhere in between. What is the basis for our trust…
Read MoreI call BS on employer groups: Get better rather than want things to be easier
I read a news article on the SmartCompany website last month ‘Unemployment rate hits 12-year high as SMEs struggle to hire in “rigid” IR system‘ that irritated me. I was irritated again when I read a similar article this week ‘Ai Group calls for Productivity Commission to make it easier to sack employees‘. What irritated me was the notion that when…
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