Recruiting in Perth

Recruiting in Perth

Recruiting in Adelaide

Recruiting in Adelaide

Disruption is the new “Norm”

The world is changing rapidly and the world of business is no exception. What excites me greatly is the pace of change (which is not slowing down). In fact it is growing at an exponential pace with no let up. There is hardly a day that goes by where there are not exciting new developments, breakthroughs, or reports of changes that are only just being understood and hence, reported well after they happen. Some of these changes are positive, some are not so positive, and some – well it depends on which side of the fence you sit on, or what your perspective is.

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How a disrupted business became a disruptor!

In my previous article, I described how my recruitment and labour-hire business was disrupted in 4 separate ways and how the fourth stage of disruption, in fact, disrupted the first!

This didn’t help my recruitment and labour-hire business which serviced large national and multi-national clients in the engineering, mining and construction sectors.

In a nutshell, the advent of internal recruitment teams and increased competition for a smaller piece of the recruitment pie, meant shrinking revenues and shrinking margins in all service areas. This created a double whammy. The writing was on the wall.

The solution was defined in the problem itself. We needed to get to businesses that didn’t have the internal recruitment team. We wanted to get to businesses that didn’t have one or more of the people, financial or time expertise to do their own recruitment, and do it professionally and cost-effectively.

We knew that most firms wouldn’t have a recruitment or HR resource until they were some 70-100 strong, and even then many didn’t have the budget to recruit effectively.

We then defined the market as small to medium enterprises (SME’s) which were between 10-199 people in size. To our surprise our research showed that this was a huge market with about 95% of all Australian businesses in the SME category.

We also knew that SME’s were a lot tighter financially in terms of available funds for recruiting and generally, and our experience also showed that the smaller the business, the less breadth of expertise exists compared to a larger business.

Putting this all together, we decided that we had to either transform our existing business, or create a new one. We wanted the new business to:

  • Have very attractive fee structures
  • Be the lowest cost operation
  • Have compelling value propositions for SME’s
  • Be scaleable nationally
  • Deliver great candidates

A traditional recruitment business typically has full time salaried consultants working from leased offices with traditional office infrastructure, cars and car parking costs. Clients are charged high fees (usually 10-20% of salary package). In contrast to this we needed to deliver value to SME’s and this required a whole new mindset involving:

Provide fixed flat fee services

Engaging part-time specialist consultants

Working remotely, connected via cloud

Use the latest in technology

What we also did was analyse all the steps in the recruitment process and measure the activities and costs needed to deliver them. What we found was astounding and enlightening. It was enlightening because it highlighted the huge inefficiencies of “traditional recruitment”. It provided a huge opportunity cut out up to 90% in inefficient methods and previously accepted “recruitment practices”.

With quantum leaps across all aspects of the new business, this meant not only creating a new business but the acceptance of a quantum shift in thinking and a completely new mindset . Enter the belief system, culture and business model that is 1300Hired.

Personally speaking, I have been on a journey to transform myself as leader of one business from “the old school” and into the leader of a new business which is quantum shift from the old ways. It is also hugely disruptive to those invested in the old “% of salary package” recruitment business model. SME’s love us and recruiters hate us.

This has not been an instant transformation, rather it is a deliberate and planned journey towards what I believe will become accepted and mainstream in the future – until the next disruption!

Recruiting in Melbourne

Recruiting in Melbourne

Recruiting in Sydney

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Pitfalls of Recruiting in Sydney

Recruiting in Sydney can be an issue for companies that are outside of that city.

How to do successful recruiting in Sydney

The best way to recruit in Sydney is to use an agency that specialises in recruiting in Sydney

5 great tips for recruiting in Sydney

 

Recruiting in Newcastle

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