Respect News Archive

Today in the career pages of the Sydney Morning Herald there was an article entitled:

"Australian Study: Racism when hiring" (full text here: http://thebigchair.com.au/news/focus/racism-when-hiring?s_cid=437)

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This blog post is prompted by an article that appeared in today's "Recruitment News" newsletter. The article can be found here:

If you were at a bus stop and the person next to you started verbalising regular, stream of consciouness outbursts....or started minutely describing every single activity involved in waiting for, and catching a bus you would probably decide to walk home that day. If this same person was suddenly joined by ten other people...

The lines between our public, private and professional lives are becoming increasingly blurred in our Web 2.0 world. Sometimes these lines need to be better established as we are all incredibly complex beings and sometimes the various compartments of our lives may not be entirely congruous. A recent event has proven to me...

Executive Agents - the scourge of a challenged recruitment market

It's no secret that the recruitment industry has taken a bit of a beating in the last 18 months, with numerous firms collapsing and many agents being required to seek alternative career opportunities. In the candidate market some probably...

Sheesh it's been an interesting year so far. It is pretty clear we have seen an enormous drop in confidence levels across the board, with confidence being a key driver of hiring decisions. From our perspective we saw the 'bottom' occur between the middle of January up until the end of the first week of March. Since that low...

Please join me in welcoming David Cooney to our ever-growing team to specialist consultants.

With a recruitment background developed with some of the most reputable firms in both Australia and Ireland, David brings both a skilled and empathic professional approach that fits into the Respect culture nicely.

The old Respect website was a bit clunky, with a 'News' page that hadn't changed since February 07. We were totally embarrassed by it, but there were real reasons for the longevity of what should have only ever been a "credit card change placeholder. After what seemed a lifetime of having our company website held hostage...

In light of our commitment to hiring skilled practitioners from our industry, then teaching them how to recruit the Respect way (free of other agency bad habits), we have been blessed by the addition of some wonderful people to our team.

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Well it's pretty scary out there at the moment and I would absolutely hate to be looking for work as an investment banker. There are echoes of the dotcom era blood in the water and the papers are full of both doom, and gloom. I have lived and worked through a number of major crashes / adjustments from the nasty late 80's we...