Ross Clennett's free ebook – Succeed Quickly or Fail Slowly
I was lucky enough to catch up with Ross Clennett, one of Australia’s foremost recruitment trainers and speakers, at a recent conference in Melbourne. Ross has just launched his own subscription-based...
View ArticleRecruitment in the 21st Century: Art or Science? – Ross Clennett at...
Our second speaker in the RecruitTECH series is Ross Clennett… Ross is a recruitment expert. As a professional recruiter, between 1989 and 2003, Ross screened over 80,000 resumes, interviewed over...
View ArticleAustralia’s population explosion: Ross Clennett
The two weeks leading up to Easter were filled with the news of the health debate between the PM and the Opposition Leader, the Federal Opposition reshuffle, soaring house prices, high auction...
View ArticleThe 8 characteristics of great clients for recruitment firms
You might have gathered from last week’s lead article that I am not so keen on PSAs, especially the ‘panel provider’ variety. So, as a recruitment professional, what sort of client am I keen on? I...
View ArticleMeet the new CEO of the RCSA – Steve Granland
As most of you would know, the long serving CEO of the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association (Australia & New Zealand), Julie Mills, resigned earlier this year and after a thorough...
View ArticleThe Power of Saying ‘No’
One of the many memorable (and valuable) conversations I had in my recruitment life, occurred when my recruitment career was a bare 2 months old. I was a very ‘green’ 22 year old, living away from home...
View ArticleSkills Shortages in Australia – the sequel…
The June 2010 unemployment rate in the United States was 9.5%. In the UK the ‘headline’ unemployment was 7.9% and two weeks ago, the OECD reported that the unemployment rate in the world’s 31 leading...
View ArticleSkills Shortages: The Sequel (Part II)
In last week’s InSight lead article, ‘Skills Shortage: The Sequel’, I highlighted the recent flurry of publicity in the mainstream media about the skills shortage. Contrary stories have also made the...
View Article15 things that you might not know about the Australian job market
In InSight Issue 82 (20 May, 2009), I wrote about the various interesting labour market facts that I had discovered in reading the DEEWR publication, Australian Jobs 2008. Earlier this month, the most...
View ArticleHow hiring mistakes are made
For those of us who follow the AFL version of football in this country, you couldn’t help but know that last week, perennial bad boy Brendan Fevola was in trouble, yet again. Fevola is alleged to have...
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