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How serious is the recruitment industry about recruiting its own?
The age-old adage of ‘do as I say, not as I do’ has been around for a long time highlighted by those old gags about plumbers with leaky taps, teachers who aren’t interested in learning anything and debt collectors who never pay their bills on time. Of course it’s a bit close to…
Read MoreRecruitment agencies: Where the bloody hell are you?
My experience of attending both the ATC Social Media in Recruitment event last Thursday and TRU Australia last Friday (both held in Melbourne), left me scratching my head as to what might be going on inside the heads of leaders in our sector. Here are two events where a majority of the attendees are…
Read MoreOne Year on from starting ‘The Job’: Interview with Ellison Bloomfield
In October 2010, the lead article in InSight 153 was Adventures of a (linchpin) job seeker. It was the story of Ellison Bloomfield, a frustrated job seeker who decided she was going to try a different approach to finding her dream job. Ellison embarked on a very public campaign to find ‘The Job’…
Read MoreThere is more in you than you think
Earlier this week I took my eldest son to the 2012 Year 7 Orientation Day at his new secondary school. All the kids and parents were milling around before the event started. There was an excited buzz in the air as students from many different primary schools checked out their future school-mates. As I was…
Read MoreWhat I learned from the US Navy SEALs’ Team Six
Last Monday I watched the documentary Targeting Bin Laden that pieced together the story about the raid by American Navy SEALs which resulted in the assassination of Osama bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan on 1 May this year. It was a compelling piece of television that captured an extraordinary event in a…
Read MoreThe job board wars: more competition please
There’s plenty of fuss, quite rightly, being made of LinkedIn’s massive momentum in the online employment space. All this fuss has perhaps distracted people from what progress has been made in the fight for eyeballs and dollars in the Australian job board marketplace. Seek’s share price has rallied from around $5…
Read MoreDying a slow and dull death: AFR job ad review 2011
Each year, for the past five years, I have reviewed all the job ads appearing in the Australian Financial Review (AFR), on the last Friday in October. I do this with the purpose of categorising each ad into one of four quality ratings (see below) and tracking what progress has been made (if any) in…
Read MoreRossClennett.com blog and ezine survey results
In late September I announced my inaugural InSight readers’ survey and invited people to complete a 21 question survey about InSight and my blog. I thought you might be interested in some of the results from the survey that was completed by 175 people (my goal was 200): 73% of…
Read MoreThe leadership difference: why effective leadership pays and how
Those recruiters who attended the RCSA International Conference in Port Douglas a few months ago, were fortunate enough to witness Steve Vamos speak on the last afternoon. Given Steve’s background in technology companies, you would be forgiven for expecting that his presentation would be hi-tech in format and tech-heavy in content. In fact it…
Read MoreRecruitment PSAs gone mad: WTF is going on in Canberra?
I am sure the successful recruitment agency winners of the recently announced Federal Health Department’s temp/contract panel must be delighted with their win. The whole process began in the middle of August last year when the Department called for tender submissions to provide temp and contract recruitment services to the head office in Canberra and…
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