Posts Tagged ‘Ethics’
Michael Page in deep snow: A monumental failure of leadership
It’s a month now since the Michael Page ski trip to Mt Buller became very bad news for the company, very quickly. The resulting publicity was a nightmare of epic proportions (just search ‘Michael Page ski weekend’ to see how widely it was covered). As you can read from an anonymous comment on my original blog about this incident (22/07/2016), it…
Read MoreMichael Page employees go skiing … downhill all the way
Michael Page International has been operating in Australia for around 30 years. When I was a temp accounting recruiter in the Sydney CBD, back in the 1990s, Michael Page together with Morgan & Banks represented my strongest competition. I respected the company’s competitive nature and the skills of their consultants. Until this past weekend, I…
Read MoreIs charging temps/contractors a ‘payroll admin fee’ a new low for our industry?
I seem to be very late to the story on this one. Early last year, people2people Shared Services Manager, Lisa Johnson had this issue raised with her in the comments section of her people2people blog Is your recruiter ripping you off? and subsequently Lisa wrote a follow up blog later in the year Who Wins When a Recruitment Agency Charges…
Read MoreYour fee: Don’t be a victim of the unfair, irrational or deluded
I read, with some amusement, on industry news service, ShortList, of the Victorian lawyer,Monica Shamon who used a recruitment agency, Australian Staffing Agency, to hire a candidate (ASA were so good they found a suitable candidate within 24 hours) then attempted to evade responsibility for the placement fee. The amusement comes from the fact that Ms Shamon, a lawyer (!),…
Read MoreHeadhunting: Unethical or a necessary part of a competitive job market?
Two very interesting and relevant US court cases were settled in the past two weeks involving anti-competitive behavior, namely no-headhunting agreements between large and high-profile publicly listed companies. In the most high profile case, four massive tech firms (Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel) who were the defendants in a class action suit, agreed to a…
Read MoreBusiness Editor botches recruitment industry exposé: trashes personal brand instead
The past two weeks has been filled with plenty of online comment about the Murdoch press’s pathetic piece of click bait Former recruitment agent spills details on what really goes on in the industry that was published on News.com.au’s websites around the country on 14 November 2013. Plenty of industry people leapt into the fray,…
Read MoreA Lesson in Humility by John Colebatch
Prompted by my lead article last week, Sydney-based executive recruiter John Colebatch contacted me to share a few amusing reminisces from his 24 years as a recruiter (John started his recruitment career in 1989, four months after I started mine). Included in his stories was a link to an article he wrote three years ago…
Read MoreEmail marketing: Are you annoying people and trashing your brand?
One of the trivial petty annoyances that occur every week is having unsolicited emails arrive in my inbox. Mostly these messages are of the global junk spam variety. A typical random selection from this week’s jun folder being: Dear Selected Winner, We are pleased to inform you of the EMAIL REWARD PROGRAM for Internet users.…
Read More‘Sorry, they are already on our database’ (Part 2): The solution?
My Lead Article in last week’s InSight #179 ‘Sorry, they are already on our database’: The lazy corporate rip-off generated a flood of emails directly to me as well as numerous comments on my blog. In less than one week it became my #6 most viewed blog post of all time (out of a total of 137…
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…
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