Posts Tagged ‘AFR’
Reputation: 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 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 MoreGoing, going … gone? 2012 AFR job ad review
For each of the past five years I have undertaken a review of the job advertisements placed in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) on the last Friday in October. When I completed the 2011 review, I signed off with the comment ‘After five years of shaking the ‘ad writing tree’ I think…
Read MoreDying a slow and dull death: AFR job ad review 2011
Each year, for the past five years, I have reviewed all the job ads appearing in the Australian Financial Review (AFR), on the last Friday in October. I do this with the purpose of categorising each ad into one of four quality ratings (see below) and tracking what progress has been made (if any) in…
Read MoreAtlassian Recruitment: November 2010 update
Australian international software company, Atlassian , have provided me with plenty to comment on in the past 15 months. On 31 August 2009, I first wrote (see my blog) about the very different tactics Atlassian were adopting for a specific campaign they had just launched to hire 32 engineers for their Sydney head office. This…
Read MoreTreading 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 MoreJob 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.…
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