Posts by Paul Hamilton

After eleven years of recruiting Australia’s best Recruitment Consultants, I’ve had the luxury of “hearing it from all angles”. I’ve had hundreds of Recruiters come to me from multi-national agencies looking for a career move. These are the five main reasons they’ve enjoyed and relished the move to a boutique agency. Better Remuneration Models Generally…

  I hope you’ve all had a fantastic week. Thanks for joining our Hamilton Professional Affiliate Program. I look forward to gratefully paying you multiple $1,000 referral fees! I have been asked by a couple of people what the conditions are. It’s very simple. Your Referral only needs to get through their probation period and…

We spend a big chunk of our week at work, so if your manager is driving you crazy, you have to ask yourself if it’s really worth it, that perhaps there’s a better opportunity out there. You are being reasonable in expecting that on most days, your work is a place you are happy to…

5  Critical Tips for Helping your Placed Candidate Resign from their current role   So you’ve made a placement ! Congratulations. You’ve worked hard to make a successful match between your client and candidate. You have made sure there has been a formal written offer which has been accepted and signed, but your job is not…

The cynics out there might say such a creature does not exist – a recruitment consultant that hasn’t bounced around from one agency to another – but yes they do* – and when they have a look outside their comfort zone, they are more often than not, surprised at how things are done at other…

One of the first questions I get asked at every meeting with Clients and Candidates is: “How’s the market”. 2015 has been an exceptionally busy year. It’s been the first time in a long time that we have seen consistent demand across all white-collar industry sectors for experienced Recruitment Consultants. We cannot find enough experienced…

Recently I interviewed Harriet Tommany-Hall. Harriet has been as extremely successful Recruitment Consultant over a number of years. I recently noticed on her LinkedIn profile that she’d had a short stint in Internal Recruitment before returning to her current employer in Agency. I often get experienced Agency Recruiters asking if I’ve got opportunities available in…

We are a proactive Recruitment company. We don’t use Seek or any other job boards to attract Candidates. We Headhunt all day every day. I find one of the best times to approach Candidates is three or four months into their tenure because so many new starters are promised the earth during the interview process…