Posts Tagged ‘Rosemary Scott’
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 MoreRec-to-recs: Where to from here?
Two weeks ago on LinkedIn (thanks Greg Webster from Cox Purtell Staffing Services), I was reminded of one of my blogs from the distant past; Rec-to-recs: What should they deliver? When I read the blog again, I was surprised to find that it’s now six years old. In consulting my blog stats, I discovered…
Read MoreThe 15 most influential people in the recruitment industry in past 60 years
In last week’s article, I listed the top five nominations in the peer vote of those in the Australian recruitment industry that have been the most influential people over the past sixty years. Those nominations were: John Plummer (Senior), Greg Savage, Geoff Morgan and Andrew Banks, Geoff Slade and Julia Ross. These five nominations (6 individuals)…
Read MoreLow performers are team focused extraverts (and other surprises)
The Recruiters’ Hub Conference produced plenty of A1 content. I have already written about Bill Bartee’s profit formula of LTVC + CCA, Greg Savage’s compelling dissection of how social media is the engine room of Firebrand’s generation of new candidates and clients and how RPOs are changing the game for agency recruiters. Towards the end of day two of the Conference, we heard three…
Read MoreAre you still stuck in the recruitment dark ages?
These days it is hard to imagine how little information was available about recruitment practices and competitors back in the early to mid 1990s. There was only one source of industry-specific public recruitment training available in Australia, and that was Rosemary Scott’s business in its original 1992 form as a training business.…
Read MoreRec-to-recs: What should they deliver?
The recruitment-to-recruitment industry (r2r) in Australia was born in 1992 when Rosemary Scott, bored with her brief taste of retirement after selling Scottstaff a few years earlier, decided to launch Scott Recruitment Services (SRS). The concept of recruiters using a recruitment agency to source their own staff, wasn’t one that was warmly or…
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