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RECOGNITION: Peter Murphy has been named Australia’s best recruiter afteralmost two decades in the industry

Regulation thekey to survivingIt’s time recruitment had its own tertiary qualification, writesDEBRABELA

THE inaugural winner of Australia’sBest Recruiter award is calling forregulation and university coursesfor a profession he says could other-wise find itself in a slow decline.

Davidson Recruitment partnerPeter Murphy has won the title ofAustralia’s top recruiter for hiswork in the industry over the past 20years.

Launched by Stellar Recruitmentand Brisbane coffee entrepreneurPhillip Di Bella, the award is de-signed to encourage industry excel-lence and boost the reputation of thesector as a whole.

‘‘I believe some changes are need-ed within our industry, such as theintroduction of formal education orcertification to raise standards andensure clients are genuinely lookedafter,’’ Mr Murphy says.

‘‘It will raise the degree of profess-ionalism in the industry. If you havea degree . . . you will be assumed tohave a certain level of knowledge.’’

From there, life experience and acommitment to the industry willhelp establish a career.

‘‘The best recruiters are in their

early 30s. They’ve had two to threedifferent careers and are doing it be-cause they want to make a differ-ence,’’ Mr Murphy says.

He believes variations in the qual-ity of recruitment come from the lackof regulation.

‘‘People can come in and out, de-pending on the flow of the market,’’he says.

‘‘If you have a reasonable network,you can make some good moneypretty quickly.

‘‘But there will be no commitmentto the warranty and the industry of-ten then goes slowly down to itslowest common denominator.

‘‘When people want to compete onprice, it’s like you’re asking me to goto four tax accountants and, whoevergets me the best tax return, I’ll pay.’’

Mr Murphy spent 8½ years in ac-counting before moving into recruit-ment at 28.

He specialises in the sourcing ofsenior executives, managers andfinance professionals for rolesacross Queensland.

‘‘This is a wonderful industry.When I first joined it 20 years ago,

there was talk about its demise. Butit will be there well into the future,’’he says.

Mr Murphy would like to see a de-signated degree in recruiting, whichwould better inform transactional re-cruiters as well as those who allowemotion into the recruitment process.

‘‘People often make the mistake ofjudging the individual, rather thanjudging the skills or experience of aperson,’’ he says.

The recruiter award was judged byStellar Recruitment managing direc-tor Shaun McCambridge, Brisbaneentrepreneur Phillip Di Bella, recruit-ment expert and Stellar advisoryboard member Greg Savage and RioTinto principal adviser for human re-sources Michael Gavin.

Other recruiters recognised in thecompetition were Simone Moore, di-rector of RecruitR; Anthea O’Lough-lin, manager of group recruitmentat Hastings Deering; and KellyArnett, the oil and gas manager ofProgressive Global Energy and Nat-ural Resources.