Consultants need a thorough understanding of the costs associated with running a recruitment business in order to engage in more meaningful conversations with clients, says Bayside Group CEO Pamela Dew. read more
Peoplebank CEO Peter Acheson says the flurry of recent M&A activity in the Australian recruitment industry is just the tip of the iceberg and he predicts more "scale players" will follow suit in the coming years. read more
The recruitment industry doesn't do a good job of conveying just how difficult recruiting is, so many employers overestimate their ability to fill vacancies themselves, according to industry veteran Geoff Slade. read more
Recruiters might not be able to suddenly become HR professionals, but the real future of the industry is a synthesis of HR and recruitment, according to the founder and CEO of Wattsnext, Sue-Ellen Watts. read more
The days of small recruitment companies becoming large national players are "gone", but other purported threats to the industry have failed to significantly change it, says managing director of Robert Half Asia-Pacific, David Jones. read more
White-collar recruitment company Cox Purtell is shifting away from a 360-degree recruitment model to a "hybrid" system that will better address consultants' strengths, says managing director James Purtell. read more
Playing recruitment companies off against each other through margin-focused procurement degrades the mutual respect in client relationships, according to PKL Recruitment founder Phoebe Lane. read more
Integrity, a willingness to make things happen, and the ability to deal with ambiguity are better indicators of recruiters' potential than their resumes, according to Ambition CEO Nick Waterworth. read more
No amount of technology and social media can replace the value recruiters build through relationships, but the industry should nonetheless become faster at embracing new tools and trends, according to industry veteran Winsome Bernard. read more
Numbers-obsessed recruitment environments won't produce the leaders the recruitment industry needs, according to a director of recruitment boutique AXR, Brad Eisenhuth. read more
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