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Constant change is the biggest challenge facing recruiters today, according to Talent2 CEO John Rawlinson, who says his company is responding with a mix of specialisation and diversification, and a leg-up from its upcoming full merger with Allegis. read more

Recruitment leaders have to teach consultants to be more than just PSA order fillers if the industry ever hopes to be recognised as a professional services sector, says FuturePeople CEO, Linda Simonsen. read more

A market that's saturated with knowledge of what recruiters do, from both a client and candidate perspective, means a high degree of specialisation is essential and generalist recruiters are a thing of the past, says Michael Page Australia managing director, Simon Meyer. read more

Fighting the perception that recruitment is a commodity is one of the biggest challenges facing recruiters today, but becoming more responsive and focusing more on relationships will help combat it, says Talent International Australia and New Zealand executive general manager, Chris Riley. read more

More emphasis on service quality and stakeholder satisfaction when hiring and rewarding recruiters would raise the level of professionalism in the industry, says Aspect Personnel managing director Matthew Sampson, who rates past billings as a "distant third" priority when he's hiring. read more

The future of the recruitment industry lies in fee-for-service payment models, which might result in lower fees, but also bigger profits, says labour market analyst Bob Olivier. read more

Nearly half of all senior appointments made this year by executive search firm Jo Fisher Executive have been female, and founder Jo Fisher says a lack of gender diversity on shortlists was one of the reasons she went into recruitment initially. read more

Recruitment companies must become more client-focused if they are to survive the post-GFC world, says Tudor Marsden-Huggins, who launched his own unconventional recruitment company in 1999 out of frustration with traditional agency services. read more

This week we hear from Kelly Services Australia and New Zealand managing director Karen Colfer, who says more collaboration could help stop the margin erosion and the devaluing of recruiters' services that's occurring in the high-volume recruitment space. read more

In this new series, recruitment industry leaders share lessons from their careers and their thoughts on the industry. This week we hear from Six Degrees Executive co-founder Paul Hallam, who came up with a unique solution to the problem of maintaining service quality during the different stages of company growth. read more