Posts Tagged ‘Rob Davidson’
Rec-to-recs: the verdict is in (they still have a future)
My blog three weeks ago about the future of rec-to-recs, drew a spirited response from a number of people, both rec-to-rec practitioners and rec-to-rec customers. Here are my major conclusions: 1) Rec-to-recs still have a valuable role to play: As Davidson Director of Growth, Rob Davidson, said “I’m a rec-to-rec-fan. They play an important role. We…
Read MoreWhat Rob Davidson, Stuart Freeman, Daniel Mundy and other successful recruitment entrepreneurs have in common
Recruiters are faced with a very large number of decisions every day: Who to phone screen, who to interview, who to refer, who to call, who to call back and on it goes. As a result, decision making is an important skill. Yet how often is any recruiter, or leader of recruiters, trained in decision…
Read MoreThe F Word: To use or not to use?
This week I was alerted (thanks George) to this job ad for an Auckland-based VP of Global Marketing for a technology company called Vend. The second paragraph opens as follows: It’s also a f***ing great place to work, with a global team of 200+ smart, driven, creative people working in cities like Auckland, Melbourne, San Francisco, Toronto, London…
Read MoreRecruitment business model crisis: RCSA and ATC conferences summary
Four days of conferencing is full-on. It’s not just the formal sessions, it’s the networking and socialising that barely gives you a moment to stop and think about and process what you have heard. The contrast between the two conferences was huge. For the first two days, I was mainly surrounded by corporate recruitment and…
Read MorePlay More Beach Volleyball to Bill More Fees
Two weeks ago, one of my favourite recruitment bloggers, Jonathan Rice, posted on his blog The Whiteboard, a smartly written post, provocatively entitled Smoke More Cigarettes to Bill More Fees. The essence of Jonathan’s post was that when he worked at Hays, a large majority of the biggest billers were smokers, but it…
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…
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