Posts Tagged ‘candidates’
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 MoreTalent Agent: much talked about but still a very long way off
I was recently sorting out some old files and came across a presentation I made for an RCSA event in 2006. In this presentation I covered the changing market for candidates and made a prediction (far from new, even ten years ago) that agency recruiters would need to become Talent Managers as the balance of…
Read MoreRCSA 2016 Excellence in Candidate Care Winner: Cox Purtell
At the RCSA Gala Ball on 26 May, Cox Purtell was announced as the winner of the RCSA (Aus) 2016 Excellence in Candidate Care Award. This week Cox Purtell Managing Director, James Purtell, took time out of his day to answer a few of my questions about Cox Purtell’s approach to candidate care. …
Read MoreSending resumes to match emailed job specs is a job for a monkey
Have you ever had a job spec emailed to you with an accompanying email message along the lines of ‘can you have a look on your database and send me across any suitable resumes’? I suspect all of us, at some stage in our lives as an agency (or even internal) recruiter, has had this…
Read MoreAgree and sign or stop wasting my time
Way back at the beginning of my recruitment career, in 1989 in London, I was drilled in the importance of verbally confirming with the client the terms of business, followed by a confirmation fax (these were the days before email). If the client did not agree to the terms, then we did not do business…
Read MoreThe six rules of providing candidate feedback
The issue of providing feedback to unsuccessful candidates was highlighted in an article last week on HC online. Greg’s Savage’s blog that I referenced last week also covered this topic. Here’s a few snapshots from those two sources: Michelle Burke (WyckWyre Food Industry HR Systems): Failed applicants always deserve feedback. They put in the…
Read MoreAre you about to waste another year underutilising your candidates?
As you are getting back into work at the start of the calendar year, take the time to research and write down the answers to the following questions: How many candidates did you interview in 2014? How many of these candidates did you refer to a job? How many of these referred candidates were interviewed…
Read MoreCEO recruitment is broken and no solution in sight
Continuing my search to understand what underlies the decision making mistakes made by boards of large companies, I turned to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), the preeminent educational body for public, private, and not-for-profit company directors in Australia. I collected a copy of the AICD Professional Development Handbook (July 2014 to June 2015)…
Read MoreIs job board advertising working for you?
The addiction that almost all Australian recruitment agencies have to running ads on job boards is like most addictions; one that is grounded in habit and impulse and rarely subject to any form of objective analysis. If that clear-eyed analysis was undertaken I suspect many agencies would change their approach to advertising jobs on job…
Read MoreDo your clients really know what you do for them?
The recruitment industry is an easy and constant target for the cynics and critics of our sector. ‘Body shop merchants’, ‘charlatans’ and ‘rip off artists’ are probably some of the more printable labels hung on us. Why does this happen? Unmet or mismanaged customer expectations would be a reasonable summary of the many complaints some…
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