Posts Tagged ‘candidates’
Dying 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 MoreCandidate interviews: the dud KPI
When I am running my ‘Building a Profitable Desk‘ workshop and it comes around to the discussion of High Pay-Off Activities (or KPIs, if you prefer), I will inevitably have a participant nominate ‘interviews’ as a high pay-off activity. When I disagree, there is often a slight pause and then this look of confusion appears on the…
Read MoreHow your recruitment process annoys candidates
Last month, global recruitment company Robert Walters released the results of a survey conducted with 800 job seekers. Three significant, although unsurprising, findings of the survey were the following: 1. A large majority of job seekers (79%) were turned off by a lengthy recruitment process with 77% agreeing that the job…
Read MoreRecruitment 101: How to win friends and influence people
In last week’s InSight lead article Play More Beach Volleyball to Bill More Fees , I referred to the research supporting the importance of making genuine connections at work in order to build a more resilient and productive workforce. Today I will discuss specifically how recruiters can create this connectedness with their colleagues, their candidates…
Read MoreThe 5 things I wish I knew when I started in recruitment
*This article was originally published on 9 October, 2007 in InSight #3 I started my recruitment career in February 1989 with Accountancy Personnel (now known as Hays) in London as a fresh-faced, innocent 22 year old from Hobart. I knew nothing about accounting jobs or qualifications, nothing about London geography, nothing about working in a…
Read MoreCandidate sourcing and advertising: The sun rises on a new era
There were a number of significant announcements and events over the past four weeks that, from my reading, seem to be compelling evidence that the new era of recruitment advertising and candidate attraction has officially announced itself as serious and here to stay. Here’s the chronological sequence of announcements and events: …
Read More‘Sorry, they are already on our database’: The lazy corporate rip-off
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a consultant (thanks, Ben) which perfectly summarises one of the dilemmas that is increasingly being faced by agency recruiters everywhere. Ben wrote: ‘Recently clients have been increasingly insisting that if a candidate is on their system – whether they been there for 6 months or…
Read MoreAustralia’s employment growth powers onwards and upwards
In case we needed any confirmation that the Australian economy was powering along, the release of the March ABS labour force data confirmed it. These are the March results (ABS catalogue 6202.0) for each of the past five years: What do you notice? The most significant change is the huge increase…
Read More‘It’s not my job’ and other lame excuses for avoiding CRM compliance
I don’t think it would be much of a competition if you polled recruitment company owners to discover the most under-utilised resource in their company. I am willing to bet that a large majority would nominate their organisation’s database/CRM system. What is the most compelling value proposition any recruiter can offer their clients or prospective…
Read MoreCheck your moral compass; you don’t know who is watching
We all make mistakes. Nobody is perfect. I certainly am not. In these very pages, I’ve made comments that may not have been as well-considered and expressed, as they could have been. It’s all part of the risk that comes with the territory of making a living by expressing a view about people and events…
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