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Treading Water: AFR job ad review 2010
On the last Friday in October each year, for the past four years, I have reviewed all the job ads appearing in the Australian Financial Review (AFR). I do this with the purpose of categorising each ad into one of four quality ratings (see below). There is no science to this process, just my…
Read MoreHow effectively are you communicating your value?
In last week’s InSight Issue 153, I summarised the major points that I took from the RCSA CEO panel that I had facilitated in Melbourne. The first I point I listed was ‘deliver value to your customers’. This, I would like to think, is obvious. Clearly it is important in ensuring you have…
Read MoreAdventures of a (linchpin) job seeker
This is a story that I find to be both inspiring and revealing. It demonstrates what is possible when a motivated and resourceful job seeker decides not to play by the rules and, in fact, changes the game. This is the story of Ellison Bloomfield. Ellison is a HR…
Read MoreConfronting ageism: The next recruiter challenge
The issue of ageism is one of the elephants in the room for the recruitment industry. I first wrote about the relevance of age with respect to work three years ago, in InSight Issue #6, prompted by the release of the long awaited (for fans anyway) comeback album from veteran 1970s rockers, the Eagles. Ageism…
Read MoreASX reporting season: Black ink slowly returns for recruiters
Each year, the last day of September brings down the curtain on the financial reporting season for ASX listed companies. Thankfully, for investors in Australian recruitment companies it was a better set of numbers all round than for the previous financial year. Not brilliant by any means, but better. I thought it might be…
Read MoreCV fraud on the march: What are you doing about it?
Another week and another reminder about the lengths some candidates will go to in order to fool employers and lie their way into a job. The Sydney Morning Herald reported last Monday that in late 2009 an Australian ‘doctor’ had conned his way into a senior lecturers’ position at the London School of…
Read MoreMore stats on the employment relationship between NZ and Australia
Three months ago I wrote about the huge benefit that Australia gains from having New Zealand as a neighbour, providing an unrestricted and constant flow of labour into the Australian economy. Recently the NZ Department of Labour (Te Tari Mahi) released an Employment Briefing Paper on Trans-Tasman migration which is helpful in…
Read MoreHow to keep your top billers engaged and motivated
Every few months or so I will receive a call from a CEO, owner or manger who will ask my advice about keeping their top biller motivated. The particular dilemma is that the top biller concerned has stated little or no desire to become a manager of people within the business. The CEO, owner or…
Read MoreHow hiring mistakes are made
For those of us who follow the AFL version of football in this country, you couldn’t help but know that last week, perennial bad boy Brendan Fevola was in trouble, yet again. Fevola is alleged to have exposed himself to a Brisbane mother at a Club Family Day. Fevola’s club, the Brisbane Lions, responding by…
Read MoreFifteen things about the Australian job market you probably didn’t know: 2010 update
In InSight Issue 82 (20 May, 2009), I wrote about the various interesting labour market facts that I had discovered in reading the DEEWR publication, Australian Jobs 2008 . Earlier this month, the most recent edition, Australian Jobs 2010 was released, so I thought it was opportune to provide an updated list…
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