Guest Article: Seek change course with Onploy as UK recruitment start-ups boom by Ross Clennett

Last week two pieces of news caught my attention that suggested that the recruitment industry is ending 2017 in pretty good shape. Firstly, SEEK announced that it was withdrawing Onploy from the retail industry candidate market to focus on the IT candidate market. Industry news service, ShortList, reported “(Onploy) Co-founder Jack Hoi told Shortlist that its software engineering category
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Guest Article: Robert van Stokrom: The (recently ex) RCSA President reflects by Ross Clennett

Two weeks ago Robert van Stokrom stepped down having completed four years as President of the RCSA (Australia & NZ) and a further six years as a board member. I managed to gain a short window of Robert’s time to put a few questions to him about this time as RCSA President and a few current industry issues. Ross: In our Q&A four years ago, upon assuming the RCSA presidency, you stated
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Guest Article: The man, as a leader of women, the recruitment industry can be proud of by Ross Clennett

This week we have seen the full local impact of last month’s Harvey Weinstein expose. The combined Fairfax Media/ABC investigative resources were marshalled in service of Tracey Spicer’s tweet of 18 October: As you can see, the tweet generated an immediate and overwhelming response that quickly elevated Don Burke’s name to the top of her list of men to investigate. The subsequent
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Guest Article: The future of recruitment, according to Hays (and how to beat them) by Ross Clennett

This month is the ten year anniversary since Denis Waxman, the legendary Global CEO of Hays, left the building with his place having been taken by Alistair Cox, an experienced chief executive from outside the recruitment industry. This was potentially a risky move but ten years on, the decision to appoint Cox can be viewed as a big success, although a glance at the raw numbers from Hays’s
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Guest Article: 500th issue of InSight: How do I make Seek redundant? by Ross Clennett

Guest Article: Hays hiring surge: ANZ division grows by 65 consultants in past quarter by Ross Clennett

The confidence that Hays Australia/NZ has in the market conditions, continuing their strong run, is amply demonstrated in their September quarter recruiter hiring surge as detailed in the Hays Q1 Trading Update. Hays reported “Consultant headcount in Australia & New Zealand was up 7% in the quarter”. According to my calculations (Hays do not release actual consultant or employee numbers in
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Guest Article: Weinstein behaviour is all-too common: Men have to change, now by Ross Clennett

You could hardly miss the biggest news story of the past fortnight. It’s been everywhere: on mainstream media, blogs, TV current affairs shows and it’s filled thousands of column inches in print and online. Of course I am referring to the allegations made against movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein, with respect to his long-hidden ongoing sexual harassment
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Guest Article: Recruitment Tech stocks fall: Are they all sizzle and no steak? by Ross Clennett

On Monday this week The Age carried a story headlined Freelancer: Australia's fallen tech star. Age journalist John McDuling briefly lays out the Freelancer story from its well-publicised listing on the ASX in early 2013, its brief moment as a $1 billion capitalised company and the sober reality of its record low share price of 46 cents last week (valuing the company at just over $210 million
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Guest Article: Does anybody take CareerOne seriously any more? by Ross Clennett

"We’re not a job board anymore”: CareerOne CareerOne has abandoned its job board in favour of a "skills marketplace" …….. the company is now actively working to change perceptions about its business. ShortList, 11 March 2014 CareerOne strategy “Flipping 180 degrees” CareerOne is refocusing on its core job board platform as part of a strategy and website overhaul, with renewed
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Guest Article: The Power of Community: Thank you Robert Van Stokrom and Charles Cameron by Ross Clennett

As I considered the impact of the 2017 RCSA International Conference: The Power of Community I started to write about the impact that the conference had on me. Then I read Aspect Personnel’s Founder and Managing Director, Matthew Sampson’s blog on the same topic. Matt perfectly captured what I, and I suspect many other delegates, experienced : The sense of community with my fellow delegates, the
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Guest Article: Clarius Results: Sales slump in booming market and another full year loss by Ross Clennett

Clarius (I still can’t bring myself to call them by their awful new name, Ignite Services) has just reported a disastrous 2016/17 financial year result. In a year when Hays reported their combined Australian and New Zealand operations drove gross profit up by 11 per cent and operating profit up by 14%, Clarius managed to go in the other direction to an embarrassing extent. Financial
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Guest Article: Seek on the PR offensive: Move on, there's nothing to see here by Ross Clennett

It’s been a fascinating past couple of months in the story of Seek, via their fully or partially owned brands Onploy, Sidekicker and JoraLocal, competing against the recruitment agency segment of Seek’s own customer base. It’s clear Seek have been mindful of the less-than-helpful publicity as a handful of my clients advised me that their Seek Account Manager proactively mentioned my blog
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Guest Article: Interview with 2017 RCSA Professional Recruiter of the Year: Erin Devlin of people2people by Ross Clennett

At the recent RCSA Winter Ball we had the unprecedented situation of three finalists for the 2017 RCSA Professional Recruiter of the Year being employed at one company. I am fortunate to to know the individual merits of each of those finalists (Catherine Kennedy, Sam Palmer and Erin Devlin) and would not have wanted to select a winner, let alone the competition from the other three
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Guest Article: The long game: is it Seek v Google (with agencies collateral damage)? by Ross Clennett

A couple of Seek-backed offerings, Onploy and Sidekicker, have created plenty of concern in the local recruitment industry over the past several weeks. Many meetings and phone calls have occurred between senior Seek executives and unhappy recruitment agency owners and the RCSA. At the time of writing no definitive action has taken place but we are moving quickly in that direction. One of
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Guest Article: Sidekicker: Seek like more than one kind of cake by Ross Clennett

Onploy, which I wrote about last week, is a product promoting permanent recruitment services. Seek’s product targeting temporary services, Sidekicker has also been creating waves of its own. Just over 12 months ago the AFR reported that “SEEK paid in the low single-digit million-dollar range for the stake, which is understood to be substantial but well under 50 per cent.” The Sidekicker
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Guest Article: Onploy: Do Seek want to have their cake and eat it too (again)? by Ross Clennett

For the whole of Seek’s life there has been an uneasy alliance between Australia’s largest jobs board, Seek, and its recruitment agency clientele. In the early days, the large recruitment agencies were a very important foundation source of revenue for the fledging Seek at the end of the last millennium. Subsequent to Seek’s listing on the ASX in April 2005, recruitment agencies continued to
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Guest Article: ATC Summary: How to avoid being AI-ed out of a job or career by Ross Clennett

The standout, among many highlights, of each annual Australian Talent Conference is the closing keynote. ATC co-founder, and one of the most respected people in the world of recruitment, Kevin Wheeler, traditionally closes the two conference days with his Fearless Forecast presentation in which he makes predictions about the way in which companies hire and get work done. Kevin is the gold
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Guest Article: Is that a muddy, smelly swamp I see at the end of the lowest-price highway? by Ross Clennett

In a recent conversation with a recruitment agency owner, we were discussing the latest demands for margin reductions. He informed me that one of his clients wanted to include his agency on the (ASX-listed) company’s PSA to supply IT contractors. On the surface, this would appear to be good news. However the sting in the tail was that the PSA margin being requested was $12 per day. Yes, you read
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Guest Article: Interview with 2017 RI Recruiter of the Year: Matthew Cossens of Aurec by Ross Clennett

Ross: What was your background prior to becoming a recruiter and how did you come to choose recruitment as a career? Matthew: Prior to recruitment I was working as both a Fishmonger and in Retail Sales will completing a Bachelor Degree in HR/Management. On completing my degree it was recommended that I try a career in recruitment from the Dean of
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Guest Article: Accurately assessing soft skills: A huge opportunity for recruiters by Ross Clennett

Soft skills, behavioural competencies, transferable skills, personal attributes, employability skills, capabilities; no matter what you might know them as, these non-technical skills are important at work and becoming more so. Deloitte Access Economics explores this topic in their recently released report, Soft skills* for business success (It's a very readable and interesting report and I
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