Toby Marshall - Articles

How to Fish Better

It sounds like the beginning of an off-colour joke: what is the only industry where the salespeople control the quality of the product they’re hawking? The answer of course is the recruitment industry. Yet despite this truism, one of Australia’s leading recruiters, author Toby Marshall, is convinced the sector is fundamentally failing employers and jobseekers alike. Read

By: Toby Marshall | 29/03/2007 | Human Resources

Did the Budget Do Enough to Lure Professional Mum’s Backs to Work?

With its recently released budget, the federal government could have done so much more to create better flexible work conditions that cater to senior executives who become mothers. This is in an environment where we have a ‘supposed’ national skills shortage — ‘supposed’ because there are large pools of talent that have historically been unforgivably excluded, such as mothers. Read

By: Toby Marshall | 29/03/2007 | Human Resources