This article was published in Saturday's SMH. It's basically a Bio on Matt Barrie, the guy behind Freelancer.
The article itself is an interesting read, though of particular interest are the comments regarding the trends toward offshoring. We've already seen a lot of low skill, low pay jobs (such as manufacturing, call centre and accounts) go off shore, but the current assessment is that this was just the first brick in the wall. A lot more of what are known as the knowledge workers (e.g. accountants, lawyers, web developers, etc) are all likely to follow a similar path.
When the Aussie dollar is running at $US1.06 and also smashing it against the Euro, it paints a slightly bleak outlook for the Australian job market in the medium term.
Right now you can actually outsource a call centre to England and save money........
Full article here:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-aussie-making-a-motza-from-offshoring-whitecollar-jobs-20120220-1thyc.html
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Why can't we help?
Candidates often feel let down by recruiters when they have a history with the agency and/or the consultant. "I sent them my CV and I never even got a single call about a job".
In some cases this is indeed purely bad customer service, though in many cases I think there's very a willingness to help but a lack of ability to do so.
Recruitment tends to be very much a client driven business. By that I mean we go out and search for what the client is looking for, and thus I am somewhat limited in terms of what I can put in front of my candidates. Even if I reckon you're the best Red Hat Engineer in town, unless one of my clients wants to hire a Linux Engineer, I probably won't be able to help.
And even if I do have a Linux role on, I'm still going to go to market and try find the best three Linux guys I can find. Obviously you'll have a head start given you're known to us, but that doesn't guarantee you'll make the shortlist.
In some cases this is indeed purely bad customer service, though in many cases I think there's very a willingness to help but a lack of ability to do so.
Recruitment tends to be very much a client driven business. By that I mean we go out and search for what the client is looking for, and thus I am somewhat limited in terms of what I can put in front of my candidates. Even if I reckon you're the best Red Hat Engineer in town, unless one of my clients wants to hire a Linux Engineer, I probably won't be able to help.
And even if I do have a Linux role on, I'm still going to go to market and try find the best three Linux guys I can find. Obviously you'll have a head start given you're known to us, but that doesn't guarantee you'll make the shortlist.