Oh no, not more job applicants. Managing recruiting and job applicants...

By ‘Glenn Courtney Smith’ Ever had this feeling? Despite the fact that one of the primary purposes of my job for the last 17 years has been to encourage as many people as possible to apply for jobs I’m responsible for, I know the feeling of getting swamped by applicants well. In fact, the more success you have maximising job applicant traffic, the worse this feeling gets. Continue reading...

Master Planning systems can help streamline profit margins in higher e...

A drop in the international student revenue due to factors such as a high Australian Dollar has placed additional financial pressure on Universities to compensate for this. In addition to this the year 2012 will see the abolition of caps on student places which can see some big changes in the types of courses being offered to attract and retain students.

Multiposting & Job Boards – It was an accident your honour...

By ‘Glenn Courtney Smith’ The first stage of reducing the labour intensive requirements of multiple Job Boards is most often known generically as Multiposting. Job Boards vary from large generics like Monster and Seek, down to a vast number of specialists and localised boards, (there are nearly 700 in the UK and over 5000 in the US, yet only a dozen or so in Australia). Continue reading...

How to obtain better project outcomes – know thyself

We can get so much valuable information from clients if we only just ask. Frequently we will be asked to implement a new system because the old one is broken. The starting point tends to be to go through each functional area and ask what you want the system to do in each one. We can be...

The Rise of the Machine; what happens to the people?

By ‘Glenn Courtney Smith' In the early days of Job Notice Boards, or Job Boards as they are more commonly known these days, recruitment consultancies in the IT space made a killing. From around 1993 onward, when Monster had launched in the US and Jobserve (previously a fax-based service) in the UK, the early adopters to this new method of job advertising were IT people. Even then, these were not just your average IT people; they were the super techies, the gurus of the trade. The IT agencies that started to use these services found that their ‘Resume Submitted’ to Placement ratio went sky high, as virtually every Resume or CV that came through the door was an IT legend. Continue reading...