Posts Tagged ‘recruitment industry’
Pre-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 MoreNew Kid Arrives on the Unbundled Recruitment Block
Last week a fascinating new experiment in Australian recruitment services quietly launched. RecruitLoop is a pay-as-you-use recruitment service where clients have a choice of how much, or how little, they wish to use ‘recruitment support’ (an external recruiter), based on agreed fees. It’s a classic unbundled recruitment service model with the five…
Read MoreMaybe recruitment agencies aren’t so bad after all
The decision by recruitment agency critic and job seeker advocate, Diane Lee, to discontinue her EventItUp website coincides with the release of the inaugural Executive Monitor report, a joint research project between Phillip Tusing (Destination Talent blog) and niche job board SixFigures. The report is a summary of the findings from a survey…
Read MoreWhy Hays is the best run recruitment company in Australia
In October this year James Packer hosted the exclusive annual SEEK major client weekend at his family’s Ellerston Estate in the Hunter Valley, 2 hours north of Sydney. Given the sale of Packer’s interest in SEEK recently it’s a fair bet that it was the last such ‘knees up’ for the heavy hitters of the…
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