Posts Tagged ‘Future of recruitment’
Decent research shows talent is very far from a company’s #1 priority
In a recent blog, I tackled the ludicrous claim made by LinkedIn in their fancifully named ‘Australia Recruiting Trends 2017: What you need to know about the state of talent acquisition’ that Australian and talent leaders say that Talent is #1 priority at their company (79%). I suggested that you would be hard pressed to find one agency…
Read MoreYou won’t believe the disruption the legal recruitment sector is facing!
Two years ago I posted a blog under the title Soft free kicks in the media continue for ‘internet recruitment entrepreneurs’ in which I bemoaned the incredibly soft journalism being offered up by the ‘broadsheet’ media with respect to the reporting of supposed technology-based recruitment disruptors. Last week they were back to their old habits when…
Read MoreCareerOne’s jump to our side of the recruitment industry: bad news or not?
“We’re not a job board anymore”: CareerOne CareerOne has abandoned its job board in favour of a “skills marketplace” …….. the company is now actively working to change perceptions about its business. ShortList, 11 March 2014 CareerOne strategy “Flipping 180 degrees” CareerOne is refocusing on its core job board platform as part of a…
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 MoreWhat Rob Davidson, Stuart Freeman, Daniel Mundy and other successful recruitment entrepreneurs have in common
Recruiters are faced with a very large number of decisions every day: Who to phone screen, who to interview, who to refer, who to call, who to call back and on it goes. As a result, decision making is an important skill. Yet how often is any recruiter, or leader of recruiters, trained in decision…
Read MoreAre you delivering niche marketing or corporate blanding?
I was MC at the ATC Sourcing Conference in Melbourne last week. It was, as usual, an excellent day of learning with a varied array of speakers who made the audience think carefully about the future of recruitment through the lens of sourcing. Here’s a summary of the major points I took away from…
Read MoreThe recruitment industry: Where to now?
In the past two weeks I have shared data about the recruitment industry globally, that Barry Asin, the President of Staffing Industry Analysts discussed at last month’s RCSA International Conference, under the two categories of The Industry Today (Global staffing industry sales top $400 billion) and Success in the Near-term (Globalisation, technology and outsourcing drive recruitment trends). In the final…
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 MoreQualitative data: The profitable future for the recruitment industry
I have reflected further on the two recruitment conferences that I attended late last month. The thoughts I documented straight after the conference were about the direct threat that I saw being posed to the traditional recruitment agency business model (last week’s blog was an analysis of the downfall of one of those traditional agency businesses, HJB, that…
Read MoreRecruitment business model crisis: RCSA and ATC conferences summary
Four days of conferencing is full-on. It’s not just the formal sessions, it’s the networking and socialising that barely gives you a moment to stop and think about and process what you have heard. The contrast between the two conferences was huge. For the first two days, I was mainly surrounded by corporate recruitment and…
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