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Another pointless waste of time concluded last week with the announcement of the 39 recruitment agencies that were ‘successful’ in winning a place on the City of Sydney Council Temporary Staff Recruitment Panel. Industry news service, ShortList, reported that the Council’s process opened in February this year with submissions closing on 13 March 2012. It’s…

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Last Monday, 7 March 2011, just after 5pm AEDST, you were probably wondering what that very loud noise was that echoed around the country. It was the ‘oh, sh*@’ being uttered by every recruitment company owner, manager and temp/contract recruiter who was, at that moment, reading the most recent story posted on the website of…

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One of the most satisfying aspects of being a temp recruiter, was creating a temp^ job from nothing. I mean ‘nothing’ in the sense that there was no existing job before you took the initiative; the client hadn’t even considered using a temp or considered that there was work a temp might usefully be engaged…

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This article originally appeared in Issue 64 of InSightLong-time readers of this weekly missive know I’m a glass-half-full-kind-of-guy. That’s not to be delusional, it is simply looking at the world in a way that gives me a sense of purpose in taking action, that I believe, will make a difference to the results in both…

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This article originally appeared in Issue 53 of InSight Published 8 October 2008 Last month ShortList reported the latest findings of the most recent MDB TWO Recruitment Industry Benchmarking report.  I found the following information the most interesting: Top performing companies achieved a temp gross margin of 28% or more, with the best performer converting…

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