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Decent research shows talent is very far from a company’s #1 priority
In a recent blog, I tackled the ludicrous claim made by LinkedIn in their fancifully named ‘Australia Recruiting Trends 2017: What you need to know about the state of talent acquisition’ that Australian and talent leaders say that Talent is #1 priority at their company (79%). I suggested that you would be hard pressed to find one agency…
Read MoreDoes Donald Trump have the necessary character to be a successful President?
In the past week several people asked me when I was going to blog about the President-elect of America. I wasn’t sure what I would say, whether it would be relevant for readers of this weekly missive, or whether I even wanted to say anything. I was shocked as (almost) everybody else when the results…
Read MoreAnother moronic ‘the recruitment industry is dead’ article
I try very hard to ignore the frequent blogs and articles that either (a) pronounce the impending demise of the recruitment industry or (b) hysterically highlight what the author sees as some fatal flaw or failure of the industry. You’re almost certainly guaranteed that such a piece is written by, or contains quotes from, the…
Read MoreFarewell and thank you, Claudia Gray
Last week the RCSA announced that long time staff member, Claudia Gray, currently the Learning Centre and Major Events Manager, would be retiring from her job with the RCSA, her last day at work being 18 November 2016. Claudia started her employment with the RCSA in 2002 when there was only a handful of RCSA…
Read MoreTalent is the #1 priority for 79 per cent of companies: Yeah right!
I regularly read recruitment industry vendor research, articles and white papers. The quality of these reports varies greatly, as I have blogged about previously. The most recent one I cast my eyes over was the LinkedIn Talent Solutions Australia Recruiting Trends 2017: What you need to know about the state of talent acquisition. The fine print tells me…
Read MoreHighly productive workers take more breaks (and other surprises)
I recently finished reading, and enjoying greatly, the memoir Shoe Dog, of Phil Knight, co-founder and CEO of Nike (thanks for the recommendation, Peter). I am sure you won’t be surprised to know that Knight worked incredibly hard, along with many other original and early-days Nike employees, to build a profitable business. Knight put in…
Read MoreA recruitment agency for beautiful people: focused or flawed?
If you are a regular social media user you may have noticed that London-based recruitment agency Matching Models, has come under fire for advertising for a personal assistant with “a classic look, brown long hair with b-c cup“. Discussing the controversial ad, Matching Group owner, Nathalie Jansen said: “The client who wants the specific cup size is…
Read MoreYou won’t believe the disruption the legal recruitment sector is facing!
Two years ago I posted a blog under the title Soft free kicks in the media continue for ‘internet recruitment entrepreneurs’ in which I bemoaned the incredibly soft journalism being offered up by the ‘broadsheet’ media with respect to the reporting of supposed technology-based recruitment disruptors. Last week they were back to their old habits when…
Read MoreVale Marc Garside
I was greatly saddened to hear of Marc Garside’s passing this week.Although originally from the UK, the majority of Marc’s recruitment career was spent in Australia. Marc had leadership roles at Robert Walters, Recruitment Solutions and Chandler Macleod. He also established his own recruitment agency in the early 2000s and, more recently, established an online…
Read MoreAt last, reference checking gets serious
Earlier this week the Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) released its Reference Checking & Information Sharing Protocol stating “To help banks employ only competent and ethical financial advisers, the banking industry has today announced a new, improved way of hiring financial advisers”. ABA Executive Director – Retail Policy; Diane Tate was quoted in the accompanying press release: “… the banking…
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