Posts Tagged ‘interviewing’
Are you still stuck in the recruitment dark ages?
These days it is hard to imagine how little information was available about recruitment practices and competitors back in the early to mid 1990s. There was only one source of industry-specific public recruitment training available in Australia, and that was Rosemary Scott’s business in its original 1992 form as a training business.…
Read MoreHow hiring mistakes are made
For those of us who follow the AFL version of football in this country, you couldn’t help but know that last week, perennial bad boy Brendan Fevola was in trouble, yet again. Fevola is alleged to have exposed himself to a Brisbane mother at a Club Family Day. Fevola’s club, the Brisbane Lions, responding by…
Read MoreThe power of saying ‘No’
One of the many memorable (and valuable) conversations I had in my recruitment life, occurred when my recruitment career was a bare 2 months old. I was a very ‘green’ 22 year old, living away from home for the first time, trying to make a go of working life in London. I was…
Read MoreWhy you should use behavioural event interviewing
The interview continues to be the primary tool used by agency recruiters to assess and recommend candidates to their clients. The type of interview used by the recruiter is critical to the effectiveness of this process. The traditional, unstructured interview is easily recognised by such questions as; ‘tell me about yourself’ …
Read MoreRaising the bar – what recruiters need to dramatically improve
It’s been an interesting week of reading on the Recruiter Daily website. Job seeker advocate website EvenItUp! has been very public in countering the opening of voting in the SARA awards with their own job seeker survey as well as publishing a 10 point job seeker charter. The RCSA has hit back with a…
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 MoreExcellence in Executive Recruitment
This article was originally published in Issue 62 of InSight on 10 December 2008 InSight 58 was devoted to my annual review of the quality of job advertising in the Australian Financial Review. I rated this ad [click here to view] by Tom Key of Lloyd Morgan as the only outstanding ad published…
Read MoreInterviewing Preparation
This article originally appeared in Issue 55 of InSight Published 22 October 2008 This weekend I had one of those all-too frequent embarrassing conversations with a friend about experiences with recruiters. She mentioned she had been to an interview last week with a recruiter and, of course, I asked how it went. She said…
Read More15 unwise assumptions for recruiters to make
I always knew that when one of my recruiters started a sentence with ‘I assumed…” that it was going to be a story with an unhappy ending. Assumptions are for the unskilled, the lazy or the unthinking. The Macquarie definition of assume is “to take for granted or without proof, suppose as a fact”. To…
Read MoreHow to identify a marketable candidate
This article appeared in Issue 48 of InSight Published 3rd September 2008 I attend RCSA breakfasts and other functions as much as I can. Even though I have been in the recruitment industry since 1989, I am always hungry to learn more about makes a recruiter successful. Late last year I went…
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