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Newspapers: Circulation is down, spin is up and profit….?
How quick is the end coming for the traditional print media? Pretty quickly if the latest circulation figures are to be taken as an accurate guide. Australian Bureau of Circulation figures for the September 2012 quarter revealed the following: The 27th consecutive quarterly decline in print newspaper circulation (metro dailies fell…
Read MoreHow not to use LinkedIn: Lessons for recruiters (and other self-promoters)
How can professional people, people who should know better, do such dumb things in the course of doing their job? No, I’m not talking about Former CIA director David Petraeus and his affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell, I’m talking about the way some people use LinkedIn. I currently have over 2,500 first level LinkedIn connections…
Read MoreWho intentionally hires a mediocre candidate?
I subscribe to a range of HR news websites. They all have some form of weekly or daily ezine that I peruse to a greater or lesser degree depending upon what other commitments I have. Last week one of these ezine articles caught my eye with the headline Forget the best: why…
Read MorePopular, profitable, cashed up: LinkedIn’s unstoppable momentum
Last week LinkedIn announced their September 2012 results. Here’s my summary of the most significant and relevant results: Area June – September 2012 (USD$ millions) June – September 2011 (USD$ millions) Period-to- period change Total revenue $252.0 $139.5 +81% – Talent solutions $138.4…
Read MoreExile on Main Street: Older job seekers feel unwanted
Six weeks ago Federal Employment Participation Minister, Kate Ellis unveiled the first national report into employment barriers for older workers, The 2011-12 National Survey on the Barriers to Employment for Mature Age People. Ellis was reported as saying the following; that 36% of mature age job seekers had experienced aged-related exclusion during job searches, that…
Read MoreGoing, going … gone? 2012 AFR job ad review
For each of the past five years I have undertaken a review of the job advertisements placed in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) on the last Friday in October. When I completed the 2011 review, I signed off with the comment ‘After five years of shaking the ‘ad writing tree’ I think…
Read MoreAre you overworking your jobs?
Some friends of mine who sold their house last year were underwhelmed with the price they were offered compared to what they thought the house was worth. They had invested a lot of money in renovating the house (it looks fabulous, by the way) and were looking to get that money ‘returned’ (plus some) in…
Read MoreEmail marketing: Are you annoying people and trashing your brand?
One of the trivial petty annoyances that occur every week is having unsolicited emails arrive in my inbox. Mostly these messages are of the global junk spam variety. A typical random selection from this week’s jun folder being: Dear Selected Winner, We are pleased to inform you of the EMAIL REWARD PROGRAM for Internet users.…
Read MoreHigh percentage recruiting: Templates, checklists and cheat sheets
I was working with a new client recently and I sat in on the interview of a experienced (five years) recruiter. The interview was a mixed bag. The recruiter assessed the candidate reasonably accurately but there were some areas around the candidate’s reasons for leaving that were not adequately probed. After the interview had concluded…
Read MoreNo silver-lined clouds anywhere for ASX recruiters: 2011/12 in review
Four months ago I blogged The ASX-listed recruitment sector: The end is nigh after Geoff Morgan and Andrew Banks announced their intention to delist Talent2 and take it back into private ownership spurred on, in part, by the hammering the share price took after Talent2 announced profit warnings late last year. …
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