Posts Tagged ‘behaviour/communication’
Gihan Perera interviews Ross Clennett: 12/11/08
After significant feedback from clients and subscribers, I have decided to offer membership to RossClennett.com which will provide members-only access to a range of professional development products and services, currently unavailable to the general public. One of main features of membership includes expert interviews with leading recruitment figures, available in audio format to…
Read MoreThe Good News About Being Fired
This article was originally published in Issue 63 of InSight on 17 December 2008 New CEO: I’ve decided to advertise your job and you can apply for it if you wish. Me: What! New CEO: I need a stronger person for your role. Me: But I was only promoted into the role 6 months ago and I have never had any…
Read MoreExcellence in Executive Recruitment
This article was originally published in Issue 62 of InSight on 10 December 2008 InSight 58 was devoted to my annual review of the quality of job advertising in the Australian Financial Review. I rated this ad [click here to view] by Tom Key of Lloyd Morgan as the only outstanding ad published…
Read MoreChristmas & The New Year: Re-double your focus
This article originally appeared in Issue 12 of InSight Published 12 December 2007 The Christmas/New Year period was traditionally one of my most enjoyable times when I was a recruitment consultant. But not for the reasons you might suspect. Yes, there were a few good parties around, the water warmed up for more comfortable scuba…
Read MoreAustralia’s top corporate & government career sites
This article originally appeared in Issue 60 of InSight Published 26th November 2008 Recruitment agencies have traditionally thrived because outsourcing the recruitment of high quality candidates was seen by clients to be an effective use of their time compared to doing the hard yards of advertising, screening and interviewing all the candidates…
Read MoreInterviewing Preparation
This article originally appeared in Issue 55 of InSight Published 22 October 2008 This weekend I had one of those all-too frequent embarrassing conversations with a friend about experiences with recruiters. She mentioned she had been to an interview last week with a recruiter and, of course, I asked how it went. She said…
Read MoreRecruitment Database Crimes – Chapters 1 to 14
I am a true veteran of the recruitment industry. This is demonstrated by the fact that the only database I used for my first three years as a recruiter was a manual filing card system. At Hays (or Accountancy Personnel as it was then called in the UK), there wasn’t even a card system. There…
Read More15 unwise assumptions for recruiters to make
I always knew that when one of my recruiters started a sentence with ‘I assumed…” that it was going to be a story with an unhappy ending. Assumptions are for the unskilled, the lazy or the unthinking. The Macquarie definition of assume is “to take for granted or without proof, suppose as a fact”. To…
Read MoreAre you a passive or assertive recruiter?
This article originally appeared in Issue 46 of InSight Published 20th August 2008 I was a very average recruiter for about 3 years when I first started in the industry. One of the reasons was that I was more passive than assertive in my approach to candidates and clients. As someone in…
Read MoreHow to help clients conduct effective interviews
This article appeared in Issue 45 of InSight Published 13 August 2008 Recruiters have many frustrations in doing their job.One of the most common frustrations is a client’s poor interview skills which results in either the most appropriately matched candidate not being identified by the client, or the preferred candidate opting out of…
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