Garry Connell, director of Trak Recruiting looks reflects on achieving 15 years in retail recruitment....  When I look back on our first 15 years in business I realise how different things were back in 1995. I had no mobile phone, no email or ...

Simply sitting is killing Australian workers – both blue and white collar.

Frontline Recruitment Group GM Doug Downer knows a thing or two about hiring retail staff that are not only more likely to suit, but excel in the industry.

  

Retail education has become more flexible and more accessible to meet the training needs of everyone from entry level to senior retail executive to business owner.

  

Retail businesses would be very lucky at the moment to have a wide choice of prospective staff. Advertising and sourcing has to be highly competitive with other local businesses, the big money offered by the mining industry and the perceived comfort and status of high profile industries.

It’s not enough to be the king or queen of product knowledge – communication with customers is a two way street…

Tile Factory chairman David Peel celebrated 25 years in business recently with a dinner for the company’s key customers, suppliers, management and friends at the Tattersalls Club.