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Sourcers are geeks, and other observations from the 2011 ATC Sourcevent
Two weeks ago I joined 200 other recruiters and sourcers at the ATC Sourcevent Conference held at the Melbourne Convention Centre to find out the latest developments in the world of sourcing. It was a fascinating day. Organisers Trevor Vas,Horace Chai and Kevin Wheeler should be very proud of a well-run and very valuable event. They brought over from…
Read MoreNew Kid Arrives on the Unbundled Recruitment Block
Last week a fascinating new experiment in Australian recruitment services quietly launched. RecruitLoop is a pay-as-you-use recruitment service where clients have a choice of how much, or how little, they wish to use ‘recruitment support’ (an external recruiter), based on agreed fees. It’s a classic unbundled recruitment service model with the five…
Read MoreAustralian and New Zealand recruitment bloggers: A random list
When Recruiter Daily took a sabbatical three months ago, I took it upon myself to find out who in the Australian and New Zealand recruitment community were active bloggers. It’s proven a bit tougher than I thought but here’s a run-down (in no particular order) of those in the recruitment community who are blogging at…
Read MoreHow your recruitment process annoys candidates
Last month, global recruitment company Robert Walters released the results of a survey conducted with 800 job seekers. Three significant, although unsurprising, findings of the survey were the following: 1. A large majority of job seekers (79%) were turned off by a lengthy recruitment process with 77% agreeing that the job…
Read More15 things about the Australian labour market you probably didn’t know: 2011 Update
This month the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) released its 2010/11 Financial Year summary of what’s going on around the country with respect to the shortage of skills. It makes for fascinating reading. Here’s the most relevant and interesting information I extracted from that document and another DEEWR report: …
Read MoreMotivating recruiters: Who’s responsible?
Professional sport can be brutal. Two weekends ago in the AFL the Melbourne Demons travelled west to play the Geelong Cats in Geelong. The Demons were just outside the Top 8 and the Cats were second from the top. The Demons were not expected to win but nobody could have predicted the humiliation that was…
Read MoreRecruitment 101: How to win friends and influence people
In last week’s InSight lead article Play More Beach Volleyball to Bill More Fees , I referred to the research supporting the importance of making genuine connections at work in order to build a more resilient and productive workforce. Today I will discuss specifically how recruiters can create this connectedness with their colleagues, their candidates…
Read MoreGuess which state has added the most jobs in Australia?
Western Australia gains more than its fair share of publicity whenever skills shortages are mentioned. As I wrote about last week in InSight #190, the WA Employment Minister has been on a jobs road show in Ireland and the UK, heavily promoting the vast numbers of new workers that the WA economy, fuelled by the…
Read MorePlay More Beach Volleyball to Bill More Fees
Two weeks ago, one of my favourite recruitment bloggers, Jonathan Rice, posted on his blog The Whiteboard, a smartly written post, provocatively entitled Smoke More Cigarettes to Bill More Fees. The essence of Jonathan’s post was that when he worked at Hays, a large majority of the biggest billers were smokers, but it…
Read MoreHow Davidson Recruitment ranked #6 on the 2011 BRW Best Places to Work list
Last month, the leading Australian business magazine, Business Review Weekly (BRW), announced the Top 50 places in their annual Best Places to Work list. It was very pleasing to see that recruitment companies took out five of those 50 places. Making that achievement even more satisfying for our industry was the #6…
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