Posts Tagged ‘Deloitte’
Recruitment tenders and PSAs: Please get out of your own way!
I’m right! Yes, it does happen occasionally. I now have substantial evidence from a highly credible global consulting firm that supports one of my more common rants; the ludicrous waste of time and money that a vast number of tenders and PSAs prove to be . Wasteful recruitment tender and PSA processes are…
Read MoreRecruiters’ role critical in powering Australia’s future prosperity: Deloitte
I’ve just finished reading Deloitte’s Positioning for prosperity? Catching the next wave report, the third paper in their Building the Lucky Country series. This report includes the actions that businesses and governments can take to position their organisations, – and ultimately, Australia – for prosperity. It also introduces the full “Deloitte Growth 25”.…
Read MoreOptimism abounds in the UK Recruitment Market
After six years of relentless bad news coming out of the UK recruitment sector it looks like the tide has turned. UK-based Recruiter website has reported on information released from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (The UK equivalent to the RCSA) Recruitment Industry Trends Survey 2012/13. Here are the major findings: Area…
Read MoreFreelancer: Another way that talent is connecting with opportunity
As regular readers will know, I have frequently written about the ambitions, growth, and success of LinkedIn and consequently, the mixture of threat and opportunity that faces the recruitment industry. Of course, LinkedIn is not the only game-changer that the recruitment industry is confronting. Services-for-hire website, Freelancer and its dynamic founder and CEO, Matt Barrie…
Read MoreOne Year on from starting ‘The Job’: Interview with Ellison Bloomfield
In October 2010, the lead article in InSight 153 was Adventures of a (linchpin) job seeker. It was the story of Ellison Bloomfield, a frustrated job seeker who decided she was going to try a different approach to finding her dream job. Ellison embarked on a very public campaign to find ‘The Job’…
Read MoreThe Recruiters’ Guide to the Future: 9 areas to watch
Predicting the future is an inherently risky and fraught business. For example, who would have predicted that Keith Richards would still be alive at 67 years of age? Videos and DVDs didn’t kill cinemas, as they were predicted to do. Instead they helped fuel greater demand and innovation in movie making and movie…
Read MoreAdventures of a (linchpin) job seeker
This is a story that I find to be both inspiring and revealing. It demonstrates what is possible when a motivated and resourceful job seeker decides not to play by the rules and, in fact, changes the game. This is the story of Ellison Bloomfield. Ellison is a HR…
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