Posts Tagged ‘recruitment agencies’
1.5 million reasons to take employment restraints seriously
Employment restraints have been a topic of conversation around recruiters as long as I have been in the industry. A typical employer will include, in a recruiter’s employment contract, a period of post-employment restraint which states a period of time that a recruiter is restricted from contacting candidates and clients with whom they were in…
Read MoreDo you have a business development culture?
As companies start to lay off workers in large numbers, unemployment rises and hiring freezes become more common, the subsequent chilly wind of ‘market slowdown’ is blowing through recruitment agencies, creating plenty of shivers for owners and consultants alike. It’s at this point that suddenly, business development becomes a necessity, not an optional extra, for…
Read MoreRPOs: agency threat or opportunity?
The Recruiters’ Hub Conference (Rhub), held two weeks ago, provided lots of food for thought for the recruiters who attended. I was especially interested in the presentations by the respective representatives of Telstra , Lend Lease and Sanofi-aventis . Each of these companies has undertaken a complete shift in the way…
Read MoreBenchmarking: what you need to know, and why
At the RCSA International Conference last year, the theme was Targeting Innovation for Productivity and as I wrote about in InSight 197 it was an excellent conference. One of the aspects that was mentioned by more than one speaker was the importance of benchmarking. The point being that there is little benefit in…
Read MoreHow CEOs are approaching talent issues in 2012
Earlier last year, global professional services firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, released their 14th Annual Global CEO survey, Growth Reimagined. Across 69 countries, 1201 business leaders responded to a range of questions about issues impacting and expected to impact their business. In response to the question ‘How concerned are you about the following potential economic and…
Read MoreHow serious is the recruitment industry about recruiting its own?
The age-old adage of ‘do as I say, not as I do’ has been around for a long time highlighted by those old gags about plumbers with leaky taps, teachers who aren’t interested in learning anything and debt collectors who never pay their bills on time. Of course it’s a bit close to…
Read MorePre-GFC acquisitions fail to deliver for ASX listed recruiters: 2010/11 in review
My review of the 2010 results of the ASX-listed recruiters proved popular enough last year for me to invest the significant number of hours required to do the same exercise for this past financial year. One thing is very clear from both this year’s and last year’s results; most of the ASX-listed recruiters…
Read MoreHow Davidson Recruitment ranked #6 on the 2011 BRW Best Places to Work list
Last month, the leading Australian business magazine, Business Review Weekly (BRW), announced the Top 50 places in their annual Best Places to Work list. It was very pleasing to see that recruitment companies took out five of those 50 places. Making that achievement even more satisfying for our industry was the #6…
Read MoreAgencies are far from dead: 2010 in review
Yes, I am pleased to confirm that the Australian recruitment agency sector, after a near-death experience in late 2008 and early 2009, is alive and well. Reports of the industry’s irrelevance were proven to be well off the mark as growth and profitability rebounded strongly in 2010. That doesn’t mean it was a year…
Read MoreAtlassian Recruitment: November 2010 update
Australian international software company, Atlassian , have provided me with plenty to comment on in the past 15 months. On 31 August 2009, I first wrote (see my blog) about the very different tactics Atlassian were adopting for a specific campaign they had just launched to hire 32 engineers for their Sydney head office. This…
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