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What I learned from Australia’s most provocative recruitment blogger of 2016
If you are reading this blog I suspect you read other recruitment blogs on a reasonably regular basis, via a subscription service or your LinkedIn feed or some other method. Given your knowledge of the recruitment blogosphere take a guess who in Australia published the most provocative recruitment blog of 2016, as measured by…
Read MoreFacebook jobs: a massive win for genuine recruitment consultants
Last week we saw the official confirmation of what has been an open secret for some years: Job postings on Facebook. LinkedIn’s dominance in the corporate recruiting world has been unchallenged due its unmatched depth of high skill professionals available on its platform. The price of the not-free LinkedIn recruitment offerings has made it clear that large enterprises recruiting…
Read MoreReputation: hard won and easily lost
Many years ago in the infancy of my stint as a Sydney temp accounting recruiter, I was asked by a very good client of mine, Thomas Cook (a brand no longer operating in Australia), if I could supply them with a secretary (as they were mostly called in those days) for a two week assignment.…
Read MoreCan years of education predict work performance?
I received a lot of positive feedback in response to my last blog Why many CEOs fail: They talk smart but don’t act smart. Clearly many people in the recruitment sector have witnessed the same thing whether inside their own company or inside a client’s company. Looking at the recent actions of President Trump, it’s obvious…
Read MoreInterview with 2016 SARA (NZ) Recruiter of the Year: Alex Allan of Randstad
Following on from my interview last week with New Zealand SARA winner of the Recruitment Leader of the Year, Randstad’s Brien Keegan, this week I speak to his colleague, Alex Allan who won the New Zealand SARA for Recruitment Consultant of the Year. Originally from the UK, Alex started his working life in professional sport before leaving the UK…
Read MoreInterview with 2016 SARA (NZ) Recruitment Leader of the Year: Brien Keegan of Randstad
In mid-November last year, one week after the equivalent Australian awards, Seek announced the winners of the New Zealand SARAs. The winner of the Recruitment Leader of the Year was Randstad’s Brien Keegan. After completing his undergraduate degree at Massey University in 2001, Brien worked at Telecom New Zealand for just over 18 months before…
Read MoreSummer down under: the music recruiters will be listening to
I love music. I can’t play an instrument but ever since I was about 9, I have been fascinated by music of all kinds. Growing up in 1970s Hobart there was only two commercial stations (7HO and 7HT) and the ABC. I listened to the only commercial station that played music all the time…
Read MoreVale Danni Cookesley: Fundraising champion and wonderful human being
I had planned on ending this year with a light-hearted blog about the eclectic music preferences of those in the recruitment industry. I had the requisite responses from those whose preferences I requested but on Friday, 16 December 2016 the Mother’s Day Classic posted a brief note on their Facebook page as follows. It is…
Read MoreInterview with 2016 SARA Recruiter of the Year: Clare McCartin of Davidson
When I moved from Sydney to Melbourne in 2001, I joined SACS Consulting under the leadership of Andrew Marty.Early the following year Andrew hired three fresh-faced graduates to join the team. One of those graduates quickly stood out as being smarter, quicker to learn and more suited to the challenges of recruitment than the other two. Andrew quickly…
Read MoreHappy birthday, Mary
I am attempting to write this blog on Thursday 8 December. It’s a tough day to try and think of something to write about because I keep thinking of my sister, Mary; my deceased sister, Mary. Mary would have turned 49 today. Instead she died from breast cancer one month after her 44th birthday. By…
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