May 2019

If you are new to Canberra, or just looking, you may have noted that each ICT contract role advertised on SEEK appears to be advertised by seemingly hundreds of different

By Ben Ashman, Founder, Recruitment Hive Over the past twenty years of Federal Government ICT contracting I’ve given a lot of thought to what is a fair contracting fee margin

By Ben Ashman, Founder, Recruitment Hive It is important for a reader to understand that I’m not a federal government insider when it comes to understanding and explaining the federal

By Ben Ashman, Founder, Recruitment Hive In Canberra, the best jobs and the biggest bucks go to the ICT professionals who not only have extensive hard skills and qualifications, but

Congratulations! You have just won an interview with a federal government department for an ICT contract position. What are some things you can do to improve your chances of winning

By Ben Ashman, Founder, Recruitment Hive 1. Ten second survivability Whether it’s being read by a hiring manager or a recruiter, your resume needs to convey the following key things

Congratulations! Our key positioning for Recruitment Hive is “how are you placed for tomorrow”, and you’ve taken that to heart – in fact, you’ve been offered a great new job.

I’m not an Australian federal government security insider who has to kill each person they have a conversation with. In fact, I don’t even want to know what I’m not

Training a new employee to the break-even point can take an average of 6.2 months. This means that if an employee leaves, you’ll need half a year just to get

  Not getting enough calls from ICT recruiters in Canberra? Envious of your office peers who seem to be receiving an endless chain of calls from recruiters attempting to “Head-Hunt”