Your Best Recruiter May Just Be Your Worst

Are companies measuring their recruiter’s effectiveness the wrong way and subsequently causing damage to their growth and profits? Some years ago, we worked with a company that had an ongoing recruitment problem in one specific geographic region. In this region there was always a long list of unfilled roles vacant. So the company decided to ...

Head Office Relocation? It’s not a property decision

Head Office Relocation? It's not a property decision
A government department in Australia this week announced to their staff they would be relocating their head office and 300 people from the CBD to an outer suburb some 25 kilometres away. The rationale was that in this outer suburb, the government had built and occupied a large office building some years ago, which now ...

The Recruitment Interview that Never Happened 3

A friend’s senior-school daughter and six of her friends all applied to work for a renowned global hamburger chain. All six were high achievers, most bound for university, and were looking for a casual job for the next 3-4 years. They had heard great things about this company, their awesome systems, training programs and the ...