Keynote Speaking

Keynote speaking is delivered by Ross for in-house retreats/conferences as well as for industry-specific or topic-specific public conferences. Presentations are typically 45 to 60 minutes.

The content is shaped to ensure the objectives, as stated by the conference organiser, are met. A presentation on any recruitment or related topic can be requested of Ross.

Recent keynotes include the following:

Recruitment Agencies: The Future?

The recruitment industry has experienced high sales and profit growth in the past 20 years as the growing economy, deregulated labour market and skills shortage have combined to create a highly favourable operating climate for out-sourced recruitment services.

As we enter the second decade of the new century this growth is now under threat from aggressive recruitment vendors (eg job boards, profiling & assessment providers, database & CRM vendors, direct candidate-sourcing strategists etc) who are all promoting lower cost and higher efficiency self-service alternatives to the traditional recruitment agency model.

Using current examples Ross presents both the threats, for the slow and change-resistant, and the opportunities, for the innovative and nimble, in the new and evolving recruitment world that recruitment agencies find themselves in.

Recruitment in the 21^st Century: Art or Science?

The recruitment process of last century was predominately a process that was reactive, emotionally driven, non-evidence based and utlising little, if any, technology.

The recruitment leaders of today embrace a recruitment process that is proactive, factual and uses effective, validated and relevant technology every step of the way.

The rapid aging of the population, and corresponding reduction in the availability of skilled labour, will dramatically increase the costs of slow, outdated and ineffective recruitment processes. Ross presents on how the effective recruiter of today combines both the science and art of recruitment to deliver outstanding results, consistently

The DNA of Champion Recruiters

What is the difference between those recruiters who ‘look good’ versus those that ‘are good’? What are the Top 5 core competencies of top performing recruiters and how are these competencies developed?

Hear Ross discuss high performing recruiters in the Australian market and what they do every day to deliver consistently outstanding results

The 5 Characteristics of Highly Effective Leaders

Effective leadership is one of the most common distinguishing characteristics of high performing organisations.

Ross shares the results of research into organisations that not only deliver great financial performance have high employee engagement and operate with high community, social and environmental ethics. The result is that the traits of effective organisational leaders are able to be developed by any leader or organization motivated to do so.