Posts Tagged ‘profit’
Why most small recruitment agencies stay small
Our industry is one that is dominated by small recruitment agencies. Yet, I would imagine that most of the owners of these small agencies would like to grow if they could grow profitably. Unfortunately much of the growth, if it does occur is not profitable growth. The Recruitment Industry Benchmarking (RIB) Report has 126 members…
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 MoreGuarantees: Stop letting clients penalise you for their stuff ups
As I checked back into ShortList for the New Year, I was greeted with the first headline of 2014 ‘Impossible to predict length of Australian downturn: PageGroup CEO’. The article goes on to detail the period-on-period declining results for not only PageGroup but also Hays , Robert Walters and Data 3 . You don’t need…
Read MoreAnother one bites the dust: The rise and fall of HJB
Last Thursday morning the inevitable happened when ASX-listed recruitment company HJB called in the corporate undertakers. During his sixteen months in charge, CEO Grahame Doyle has not been able to halt the long term decline of what was once one of the strongest brands in the Australian recruitment market. The closure of both the Parramatta…
Read MoreNo temp-to-perm fee? You’ve got to be kidding!
One of the more odious internal recruitment practices being seen with increasing frequency around the country these days is the inclusion in recruitment PSAs or tenders of the ‘no temp-to-perm fee’ condition. I saw it again this week when industry news service ShortList brought attention to the Glenorchy (Tasmania) City Council’s current recruitment tender document including such…
Read MoreDo you have an ‘almost pathological need to confront brutal facts’?
Acting on the urgings of Jonathan Holmes during his final episode of ABC1’s Media Watch, I decided to make a commitment to pay for quality journalism by subscribing to Business Review Weekly. The most recent cover story features US business author Jim Collins, who is most famous for his books Good to Great (2001) and…
Read MoreDo you need to attend Contingent Recruiters Anonymous?
In Australia we are just about to complete one financial year and start a new one. It’s a very good time to review some critical statistics from the past 12 months and make some firm commitments to the way in which you will operate as a recruitment consultant (or as recruitment agency, if you are…
Read MoreThe disaster that is our country’s car manufacturing industry
No matter where you were in Australia last week I’m sure you heard or read about Ford’s announcement that they would cease making cars in Australian in 2016. This decision will lead to the direct loss of around 1200 jobs due to the closure of Ford manufacturing facilities in Geelong and Broadmeadows. The media then went into…
Read MoreWhat’s in an effective leadership program? (and why it matters)
Last week HR Daily wrote up a summary of the research recently undertaken by Psylutions and Curve Group, which has been published as a white paper Best Practice in practice talent management. There was a range of issues to do with talent that were covered in the paper but of particular current interest of me was the commentary around the…
Read MoreNo silver-lined clouds anywhere for ASX recruiters: 2011/12 in review
Four months ago I blogged The ASX-listed recruitment sector: The end is nigh after Geoff Morgan and Andrew Banks announced their intention to delist Talent2 and take it back into private ownership spurred on, in part, by the hammering the share price took after Talent2 announced profit warnings late last year. …
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