Posts Tagged ‘experience’
Does Donald Trump have the necessary character to be a successful President?
In the past week a number of people asked me when I was going to blog about the President-elect of America. I wasn’t sure what I would say; whether it would be relevant for readers of this weekly missive or whether I even wanted to say anything. I was shocked as (almost) everybody else…
Read MoreLessons from Everest: Back your expertise
Last week I was in California for a conference. As I live in Melbourne, this entailed a 14 hour flight each way to reach LA. My flight time was taken up with watching movies. One of the movies I watched was Everest; the dramatised account of the disaster that occurred on Mt Everest on 10…
Read MoreHow Mitre 10, campus life and London made the recruiter in me
As my loyal and regular readers would know (both of you), my eldest son secured a job at his local McDonald’s last year. Since then I have observed his progress from Initiator (getting the buns ready) to sometime Cook (now that’s amusing – I’m not confident he could boil an egg at home) over the past eight…
Read MoreSkills Shortage: The Sequel
The June 2010 unemployment rate in the United States was 9.5%. In the UK the ‘headline’ unemployment was 7.9% and two weeks ago, the OECD reported that the unemployment rate in the world’s 31 leading industrialised economies averaged fell to 8.6% in May, 2010. These rather bleak figures from elsewhere around the globe (although improving…
Read MoreGihan 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 MoreNPA Asia Pacific Conference 2008
Presented by Ross Clennett Thanks to everyone who attended the 2008 NPA Asia Pacific Conference on Friday 23rd May. Briefly, my presentation was about: Learning why clients provide a narrow job selection criteria that often leads to a poor calibre short list Understanding what actually does determine effective job performance…
Read MoreThe Marketing Power of Evidence
This lead story appeared in Issue 29 of my Newsletter, InSight. Published: 23 April 2008 Recently I watched and listened as a reasonably experienced consultant (let’s call him James) put a candidate forward for a permanent role, to a client over the phone. The candidate was not ‘ideal’ but was certainly close…
Read MoreHiring Mistakes Part 1: The fallacy of ‘previous experience’
The name Ron Barassi won’t mean a lot to most of you. For those readers who follow AFL, it will mean a lot. Ron Barassi is an official legend of the (VFL/AFL) game. He was a champion player (6 premierships) and a champion coach (4 premierships). Those 10 premierships are irrelevant to this story. Where…
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