Posts Tagged ‘lost jobs’
Fifteen things about the Australian job market you probably didn’t know: 2010 update
In InSight Issue 82 (20 May, 2009), I wrote about the various interesting labour market facts that I had discovered in reading the DEEWR publication, Australian Jobs 2008 . Earlier this month, the most recent edition, Australian Jobs 2010 was released, so I thought it was opportune to provide an updated list…
Read More‘You don’t have Australian experience’ – the biggest cop out in a recruiter’s lexicon
When I was recruiting temp accountants for Recruitment Solutions in Sydney during the 1990s, I took a lot of satisfaction in placing many ‘number crunchers’ who didn’t have ‘Australian experience’. These arrivals to the Great Southern Land had permanently left homes in countries such as Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Fiji, to name…
Read MoreLearning from a lost job
I regard a recruiter’s job-filled ratio as the most important statistic to track over time. This is because every job not filled contains many lessons and the only way we really know whether those lessons are being learned is through a consistent increase in the job-filled ratio of a recruiter. I was a very competitive…
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