Toby Marshall

name Toby has worked for nearly 20 years in recruitment. His focus is on creative recruitment to solve his client’s employment problems, and on reducing their risk of recruiting the wrong employee. His formal studies were in economics, and he has an MBA from a top 50 international business school.

In 2005 he published the Amazon best seller, Get Great People – a practical guide on how to recruit employees and the whole topic of Recruitment and Selection. Toby is an active speaker on the international conference circuit. He speaks on Recruitment and Selection; The Changing World of Employment – How to Recruit; and The Great Staff Scarcity Myth.

In early 2007 he created The Ultimate Recruitment Kit for companies – the ultimate creative recruitment guide. His mission: To give all companies, no matter how few employees they have, the information and expert help they need to do their own recruitment and selection and find great new staff. If you like what you have read so far, you can get more information and resources at www.YourRecruitmentCoach.com

If you are in Australia and are interested in Recruitment Services and help with particular recruitment and selection problems, you can go to Abacus Recruitment Solutions at
www.abacusrecruit.com.au

TOBY MARSHALL - Abacus Recruitment Solutions

30th March 2007
Welcome. I'm Toby Marshall, Director of Abacus and a new contributor to CCH. My goal? To each month explore and offer thought-provoking opinion on topics of interest that as human capital professionals we can't ignore … Why we routinely pay tens of ... Read >

Co-petition, not competition the key to recruitment in the accounting profession

30th March 2007
In every industry there are areas where talent is scarce, where organizations can't recruit. It's the very nature of business. The thing is, there is a solution for each industry, but it is often a multi-faceted and difficult one. What's interesting, howe... Read >

How to Fish Better

30th March 2007
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 r... Read >

Did the budget do enough to lure professional mum’s backs to work?

30th March 2007
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 sho... Read >

The Recruitment Industry and Why it Doesn’t Help Employers - Toby Marshall

30th March 2007
Today's need to attract and retain quality employees is arguably more important but increasingly more difficult than ever before, and many business managers struggle to recruit the people they need. Understanding the dynamics of the Australian recruit... Read >