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Team leader communication: How nothing has changed in 25 years
I have read a lot of books on leadership. I have attended many leadership training sessions or keynote speeches. I have facilitated many hundreds of leadership training and coaching sessions. Given all that education and experience, I am sure you will not be surprised to hear that the consistent message across all of the leadership…
Read MoreThe hidden candidate gold mine: 400,000 part-timers almost available
At the end of last year, the ABS released its Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Australia, July 2012 to June 2013 (catalogue 6239.0). This survey revealed some fascinating information about the Australian workforce: Of those 9.4 million people, aged 18 years and over, who did not work full-time, approximately 2.6 million (or 28%) indicated that…
Read MoreTwo gems of wisdom to guide your year ahead
I’ve previously alerted you to the excellent blog of Chris Savage, Wrestling Possums, Chris has started the year with a cracking post, Here’s The Best Advice You Will Get All Year in which he relates two pieces of advice he received recently. Here’s the advice: Take more time, cover less ground and be clear what…
Read MoreGuarantees: Stop letting clients penalise you for their stuff ups
As I checked back into ShortList for the New Year, I was greeted with the first headline of 2014 ‘Impossible to predict length of Australian downturn: PageGroup CEO’. The article goes on to detail the period-on-period declining results for not only PageGroup but also Hays , Robert Walters and Data 3 . You don’t need…
Read MoreLearning and development: the Netflix way
In sorting out a few bits of filing over the break I came across the Netflix Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture which is worth wading through (all 126 slides of it) to really grasp what drives their culture. As it is my first blog/article of the year, I though a nice short selection of…
Read MoreThank you recruiters, you’ve done a fantastic job (said me and many others)
My recent defence of the recruitment industry hasn’t been welcomed by all of my readers, including some recruiters (it would appear). I prefer not to have to invest energy in responding to the people having a go at our industry but sometimes a cheap shot can’t be left alone. To redress the…
Read MoreWhere in the business development process is your consultant underperforming?
The failure of our industry to enhance its reputation will continue for as long as we have a high rate of staff turnover. How seriously can we be taken if (as RCSA data suggests) we struggle with annual staff turnover that is consistently between thirty and fifty per cent? This is a…
Read MoreWho the #&%! does Gen George think she is?
What’s in the water Gen Ys are drinking right now? Last week I slammed the ham-fisted and unprofessional attack on the recruitment industry by a News.com.au Business Editor, barely out of her journalist nappies. This week we have more mud to contend with, coming from a person who has had about 5 minutes experience in the world…
Read MoreHow serious is the recruitment industry about recruiting its own? 2013 update
Two years ago I decided to do some research to see how various high profile firms in the recruitment industry were approaching the job of attracting their own potential employees through a dedicated careers site. The results were embarrassing and I concluded: Based on this sample, I award the recruitment sector an overall grade of…
Read MoreBusiness Editor botches recruitment industry exposé: trashes personal brand instead
The past two weeks has been filled with plenty of online comment about the Murdoch press’s pathetic piece of click bait Former recruitment agent spills details on what really goes on in the industry that was published on News.com.au’s websites around the country on 14 November 2013. Plenty of industry people leapt into the fray,…
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