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Job ads – the song remains the same
Each Friday I open the Australian Financial Review and I hope this week will be the week. The week when I turn each page, and have my heart fill with joy as I savour the rich quality of job advertisements, jumping off the pages of Australia’s most expensive real estate for job ads.…
Read MoreUse of Twitter and Facebook in recruitment up for debate at RecruitTECH
The future of recruitment and the impact of technology on talent acquisition will be debated when Canberra hosts the inaugural Australian recruitment and technology conference on 18 September 2009. An initiative of local jobs website CapitalJobs.com.au, the conference – known as RecruitTECH 2009 – will feature some of Australia’s foremost thinkers and…
Read More‘You don’t have Australian experience’ – the biggest cop out in a recruiter’s lexicon
When I was recruiting temp accountants for Recruitment Solutions in Sydney during the 1990s, I took a lot of satisfaction in placing many ‘number crunchers’ who didn’t have ‘Australian experience’. These arrivals to the Great Southern Land had permanently left homes in countries such as Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Fiji, to name…
Read More5 ways to improve your results without spending a cent
As a rookie recruiter many years ago, I was told a by an old hand in recruitment, while we were sharing a convivial drink, that ‘recruitment is simple but that doesn’t mean it’s easy’. Over the years I have had reason to reflect on the truth of that statement many times and it’s hard to…
Read MoreCandidate assessment and selection – the rusty skill
This article orginally appeared in InSight issue 74, published on 25 March 2009 Six years ago, in the twilight months of my recruitment career, I recruited the role of Human Resources Director for a large ASX listed retailer. I reviewed over 150 resumes of which a large number were very well credentialed for…
Read MoreWhy use a recruitment agency?
This article was originally published in Issue 67 of InSight on 4 February 2009 The current employment market has thrown up a lot of challenges for recruitment agencies, not just in Australia but across the globe. One of the most confronting ones is relevance. This is a very familiar…
Read MoreThe 6 Biggest Mistakes Recruiters Make in a Tough Market
Undoubtedly recruiters are working in a very challenging market. Whether you look at public company results, any job index you care to name or the headlines in the general media, it’s all pretty sobering stuff. I worked in two tough markets, 1991/2 in Sydney and then 2001/2 in Melbourne. Co-incidentally both geographic markets were ones…
Read MoreWhat Australia’s champion cricket coach can teach recruiters
How does a person who has never been a successful top level cricketer, assist the likes of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and Steve Waugh to become better cricketers? This was the question constantly being put to, and asked of, Australia’s just-appointed national cricket coach, John Buchanan when he was promoted from…
Read MoreLearning from a lost job
I regard a recruiter’s job-filled ratio as the most important statistic to track over time. This is because every job not filled contains many lessons and the only way we really know whether those lessons are being learned is through a consistent increase in the job-filled ratio of a recruiter. I was a very competitive…
Read MoreHow to help your clients avoid failed new hires
This article originally appeared in Issue 66 of InSight published 28th January 2009 I have failed in a job. No surprise, really because many people fail in jobs, every day. Having worked in recruitment since 1989, I have interviewed many candidates who have failed in jobs, witnessed colleagues fail in jobs and…
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