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Recruitment companies that are unprofitable often have leaders who refuse to address underperformance as soon as it happens, according to an employee engagement and performance specialist.

Agencies generally wait between three and six months before addressing poor performance, by which time the damage has already been done, Employerbility performance specialist Kate Boorer told Shortlist. "You can quantify a recruiter as a business unit – it's very easy to tell if they are making you money or not – and the ease at which you can calculate that means you can't ignore it when it does becomes a pro…

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After a 'tough' 2013, TRC Group has restructured and introduced a new commission structure and team-based incentives to improve its profitability, according to company Talent and Training Manager Sarah Banek. The new commission structure involves a third tier – focused on driving better customer service – on top of TRC's two more traditional, results-focused commission tiers, Banek toldShortlist. "Reward percentages increase when the consultants demonstrate the right behaviours, such as respecting your margins and [seeking] high-quality repeat business from clients. It has two major benefits i…

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TRC Group has been recognised as an ABA100 Winner for Employer of Choice in The Australia Business Awards 2014. TRC Group’s Managing Director Simon Moss said of the award “this is a major achievement for us. We’ve working hard to create a company unlike any other in our industry and this award lets us know we’re on the right track.”

The Australian Business Awards are a national, all-encompassing awards program honouring Australia’s most innovative businesses. In their ninth year, the awards honour 100 organisations (ABA100) who have excelled within a number of categories. TRC Group is a winner …

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Its probably the first time we've been in the ofice at 5am but today saw the die hard TRC World Cup fans in the office to watch the final on the big screen over a big breakfast. Congratulations to Germany on their win - we've now got a long day of recruiting ahead of us. The coffee shop downstairs may make a killing out of us today!

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Today is the last day of TRC's World Cup adventure with Argentina and Honduras battling it out in the final of of our World Cup game. Both teams have their eyes on the prize (s); glory, $500 cash and a lifesize chocolate World Cup. Its been a hard fought 4 weeks which has seen consultant pitted against consultant but as the competition draws to a close all eyes are on the final two teams (and on the lifesize chocolate World Cup).

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After a hard fought 4 weeks of recruitment football, Argentina have emerged as our World Cup champions, beating Honduras in a close, nail biter. Argentina (Carly) walks away with $500 cash and a lifesize chocolate World Cup. Honduras (Christina) didnt walk away empty handed, she won $100 cash and a mini chocolate World Cup.

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For anyone who has seen the Lion King, the opening scene is a defining moment of music, colour, and costume, which is nothing less than extraordinary. And this production didn’t disappoint. From start to finish the Lion King was an absolute delight, and was, without a doubt, one of the best incentives we've run.

As part of an ongoing initiative this year to drive performance, we put in place a number of milestones to hit as a company, to incentivize our team and shake things up a bit, as a way to keep things fun and kick our goals. The Lion King showing at one of Sydney's most iconic theatre's,…

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For anyone who has TRC's blog articles on becoming a best place to work you will know that we always try and stay ahead of the curve in finding new and exciting ways to incentivize our team.

Having established some key milestones to achieve as a business this year, to keep things fun, and us on track, we put considerable thought and effort into what we could do with the team on achieving these goals. Over the years, one of our favourite past times has been to play roulette, sporting our very own TRC roulette table, as a way to drive activity and reward results. Chips are awarded daily for money…

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TRC Group has sold the Singapore arm of its business to the Australian based group Andersen Partnership. TRC Group has operated in Singapore since 2009 but following a refocus of the business on the Australian domestic market the decision was made to sell the international operations.

TRC Group Managing Director Simon Moss said of the sale “Our Australian business is going strong after a difficult first half of 2013. We decided to redirect our energies into this market to allow us to ride the wave here. Our biggest concern was the welfare of the Singapore team. We have a fantastic group of cons…

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Wednesday February 5th marked an important day for TRC Group as we held our Annual General Meeting.

This year we opted to host the meeting with understated class at The Menzies Sydney. 2013 was a significant year in TRC history and the AGM was highly anticipated by everyone in the team as they awaited the unveiling of the plans for 2014. As is the tradition, the early part of the year was devoted to the preparation for the AGM.

After many hours spent in the TRC boardroom over the month of January Simon, Sarah, Geoff and Laura perfected their presentation to the team. When the day of the meeting …

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