Posts Tagged ‘recruitment agencies’
Hiring a bad leader compounds like high interest on a bad debt
This week Forbes contributor Dev Ittycheria, published a column Avoiding Costly Recruiting Mistakes: The Importance Of High Standards. It’s excellent and I recommend you read it. “The reality is that no one wants to work for a bozo, and employees can instantly assess if their boss is a bozo. The team who works for a bad boss will…
Read MoreOptimism: Our industry’s greatest attribute and greatest weakness
Things are rocking right now. It’s clear from the conversations I’ve had with many people in the recruitment industry since the beginning of the year that the market is moving at Usain Bolt-like speed. Agencies are reporting record levels of job registrations and the subsequent placements are leading to healthy bottom line results. The other…
Read MoreA recruitment agency for beautiful people: focused or flawed?
If you are a regular social media user you may have noticed that London-based recruitment agency Matching Models, has come under fire for advertising for a personal assistant with “a classic look, brown long hair with b-c cup“. Discussing the controversial ad, Matching Group owner, Nathalie Jansen said: “The client who wants the specific cup size is…
Read MoreThe 10 major indirect costs of tolerating monkey business
There’s nothing wrong with monkey business (for those of you late to the scene, I suggest you familiarise yourself with my two most recent blogs on monkey business Money Business: Choose YES or NO and Sending resumes to match emailed job specs is a job for a monkey to avoid boring the majority of readers with repeat explanations). Having…
Read MoreCulture is caught, not taught: 10 years of Kingfisher Recruitment
(L-R) Matthew, Mal and Rohan, enjoying the 2011 Kingfisher Christmas Party at the Kyneton races In 2006 I met Mal Stuart when he attended an RCSA Leadership workshop I was running. He and his business partner, Rohan Christie had started their own recruitment agency, Kingfisher Property Recruitment , the year previously and they…
Read MoreAnother insipid piece of lazy recruiter-bashing hits the web
The recruitment industry is one that is an easy target for the knockers. I have written about this topic a few times before. The (supposed) quality broadsheet media, use incomplete facts to paint our industry as enjoying a taxpayer-funded ‘bonanza’. ‘Internet entrepreneurs’ looking for a bit of free publicity, engage in a recruiter-bashing by accusing…
Read MoreRed Flashing Lights: How you know when profitability is about to sink
After last week’s blog on the Australian publicly listed recruitment companies that have departed the boards of the ASX, I received a few emails from readers asking me follow up questions about the decline in fortunes of such formerly successful companies. Such questions as: How do such, formerly successful, companies become so unprofitable in a relatively short…
Read MoreThe premortem: How to avoid ‘stupid acquisitions’ in one step
My mid-October post about the performance of the ASX-listed recruitment agencies drew a lot of comments on my LinkedIn profile, through emails and in conversations with recruitment industry leaders. One of the common topics of conversation has been the performance (or lack of it) with respect to acquisitions made by the boards of these listed companies.…
Read MoreWhy 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 MoreRecruitment tenders and PSAs: Please get out of your own way!
I’m right! Yes, it does happen occasionally. I now have substantial evidence from a highly credible global consulting firm that supports one of my more common rants; the ludicrous waste of time and money that a vast number of tenders and PSAs prove to be . Wasteful recruitment tender and PSA processes are…
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