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Cision Canada
13 hours ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
Robert Half named by Forbes as one of Canada's Best Recruiting and Temporary Staffing Firms 2025
TORONTO, July 22, 2025 /CNW/ - Global talent solutions and business consulting firm Robert Half has been named one of Canada's Best Professional Recruiting Firms, Executive Recruiting Firms, and Temporary Staffing Firms in Forbes ' inaugural ranking of Canadian staffing and recruiting firms. The rankings were produced in partnership with market research firm Statista. The lists are based on survey responses from more than 15,000 participants in Canada—composed of human resources managers, hiring managers, recruiters and employees who recently worked with a recruiting firm. The survey was conducted between mid-February and mid-April 2025. "Being named to Forbes' first list of Canada's best recruiting companies is an honour, and makes us enormously proud", said David King, Senior Managing Director, Robert Half, Canada and South America. "Receiving this recognition underscores the importance we place on being a trusted advisor, providing access to world-class talent, diverse hiring solutions for our clients and the professionals we represent, as well as leadership within the larger industry." Robert Half connects companies with skilled talent and helps job seekers find roles from entry-level to executive positions, on both contract and permanent bases. Through its award-winning AI capabilities, the company has enhanced the candidate discovery, assessment and selection process, increasing its ability to staff critical roles faster. Robert Half is also recognized by Fortune as one of the 2025 World's Most Admired Companies. Robert Half is among a select group of companies to be honoured as a Fortune Most Admired Company for 28 consecutive years and is the only in its industry to achieve this distinction. About Robert Half Robert Half is the world's first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects opportunities at great companies with highly skilled job seekers. Offering contract and permanent placement solutions in the fields of finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support, Robert Half has more than 300 locations worldwide. Robert Half is the parent company of Protiviti ®, a global consulting firm that provides internal audit, risk, business and technology consulting solutions. Robert Half, including Protiviti, has been named to the Fortune ® Most Admired Companies ™. Explore our comprehensive solutions, research and insights at
The Guardian
13-07-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Fremantle are easy targets but deserve respect for hitting back
With blood still spurting out of his head, and resembling John Rambo under Soviet interrogation, Andrew Brayshaw still managed a semblance of humility, of calm and of coherence in an on-field interview on Saturday night. Brayshaw is that kind of player and it had been that kind of game. It had been an intense, occasionally spiteful contest, the sort of game Fremantle have coughed up too many times under coach Justin Longmuir. But they were the more composed and tougher side against the highly-rated Hawthorn. The Dockers laid more than 100 tackles, 14 of them coming from Brayshaw. Longmuir didn't have his head split open but whenever he loses, it always feels like it's his head on the chopping block. Whenever someone like St Kilda's Ross Lyon has a narrow loss, it's a coaching masterclass. When Longmuir loses, even when they go down narrowly to a resurgent Sydney at the SCG, he's suddenly the coach under the most pressure. In so many ways, Longmuir is an easy target. He doesn't have the 'aura', the polish, the force of personality and the playing record of many other senior coaches. He's on a rolling contract. And he's on the other side of the country to the majority of the football media. One of his fiercest and most persistent critics has been David King. A few years ago, King called Longmuir's Dockers 'a con.' He called it 'fake footy' and 'a waste of time.' He doubled down after the Dockers' loss to the Swans last Sunday, saying they had the best list in competition, that the Fremantle coaching job is the best to have in 2026, and that Longmuir was unlikely to be the man in the role. 'This guy' he called him. Longmuir, to his credit, bit back this week. King, in turn, defended his own work-rate and right to an opinion, saying, 'You'd go a long way to find someone who does more research than myself.' It's all part of what Saints coach Lyon calls 'the great pantomime.' Most of it is nonsense. Footy's ability to breathlessly inhabit an issue that really doesn't matter is probably unparalleled in public life. At this stage of the season, there's usually a deep dive on the state of the game and umpiring, and there's usually a stoush between a coach and a prominent media figure. But it's always interesting to see the unconscious biases, axe grinding and groupthink at play when it comes to assessing senior coaches. Compare, for instance, the way King and his regular co-host Kane Cornes analyse the coaching tenures of Sam Mitchell and Luke Beveridge. A 'football genius' Cornes calls Mitchell. Granted, the bar for a genius in this instance isn't particularly high. It's pretty much whoever agrees to go on radio with him that particular week. It's whoever doesn't want to throttle him or ban him from their rooms at any given moment. For the purposes of this exercise, it's also worth comparing the way they speak about Longmuir with the way they talk about Carlton coach Michael Voss. 'Vossy's doing a great job,' King said after the Blues defeat to North Melbourne. 'You haven't heard him whinge, you haven't heard him shuffle the responsibility to another department,' he added this week. 'He's taken it all on board, he has spoken with clarity,' Cornes replied. 'Word perfect.' Longmuir is rarely 'word perfect'. He doesn't live in Melbourne, he doesn't wrestle car thieves, he didn't play under Leigh Matthews, and he isn't good mates with half the Fox Footy panellists. He's therefore held to very different standards. However he's to be commended for what he's doing with this Dockers team. Sign up to From the Pocket: AFL Weekly Jonathan Horn brings expert analysis on the week's biggest AFL stories after newsletter promotion Contrary to King's claim that they have the best list in the competition, they are still a maturing team with considerable deficiencies, especially when the ball is on the ground in their backline. But they are grinding out wins, solving problems on the run, and holding their nerve in close finishes. A lot of the hype around Fremantle, some of it a product of their own messaging, has faded, and they're all the better for it. It can be incredibly difficult and problematic to assess coaches. Premiership coaches Adam Simpson and John Longmire both said recently that they were at their best when the team was going badly. A good place to start is to pay less attention to aura, to what the current coaches say and who they say it to, and more to who they beat and how they do it. On that measure, Longmuir deserves a bit more credit and a bit more respect than what he's been afforded.
Courier-Mail
10-07-2025
- Sport
- Courier-Mail
AFL: Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir furious with pundit David King
Don't miss out on the headlines from AFL. Followed categories will be added to My News. Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir lined up former Kangaroos star David King and went whack on Thursday, sick of the criticism the media pundit sends his way. Despite winning six of the past seven games, and being only percentage outside the top eight, King said Longmuir was the most 'under pressure' coach following a loss to Sydney. Longmuir wasn't copping it and at his weekly press conference launched into King, confused as to why he and the Dockers were a constant target and questioning whether the premiership winner knew what it took to coach a team. 'If I had $1 for every time someone asked me what I've done to David King, I'd be a rich man and I'd probably be in the Bahamas guts up rather than doing this job,' he said. Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir says David King's commentary on the Dockers is 'over the top'. Picture: James Wiltshire/AFL Photos via Getty Images 'In the end, everyone needs to understand it's just David's opinion. We're a game based on opinion and that's his opinion. That's enough said about it. 'I don't want to be disrespectful towards anyone, but I don't think David's put together a game plan, put together a list, put together a culture. It's just an opinion and that's what I take it as. 'It seems to be a little bit over the top, but it seems to be his way with me.' Longmuir is on a rolling contract with the Dockers, who face top-four aspirants Hawthorn at home on Saturday and could break into the top eight with a win. Fox Footy commentator David King has taken aim at Longmuir. Picture:A loss could hurt their finals chances, but Longmuir said he wouldn't get distracted by the opinions of those paid purely to voice one and would listen only to 'people I trust around this club'. 'I don't get caught up in it because I am always looking forward and looking towards how I can improve my coaching, how I can improve the way we're playing and try to live by the mantra I teach the players every day. And that's living in the moment,' he said. 'I know people get caught up in it and some people around me get caught up in that stuff, but really I am just focused on the opinions of people I trust around this club and doing the best I can.' Originally published as Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir lashes pundit David King over constant criticism of Dockers
The Australian
10-07-2025
- Sport
- The Australian
AFL: Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir furious with pundit David King
Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir lined up former Kangaroos star David King and went whack on Thursday, sick of the criticism the media pundit sends his way. Despite winning six of the past seven games, and being only percentage outside the top eight, King said Longmuir was the most 'under pressure' coach following a loss to Sydney. Longmuir wasn't copping it and at his weekly press conference launched into King, confused as to why he and the Dockers were a constant target and questioning whether the premiership winner knew what it took to coach a team. 'If I had $1 for every time someone asked me what I've done to David King, I'd be a rich man and I'd probably be in the Bahamas guts up rather than doing this job,' he said. Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir says David King's commentary on the Dockers is 'over the top'. Picture: James Wiltshire/AFL Photos via Getty Images 'In the end, everyone needs to understand it's just David's opinion. We're a game based on opinion and that's his opinion. That's enough said about it. 'I don't want to be disrespectful towards anyone, but I don't think David's put together a game plan, put together a list, put together a culture. It's just an opinion and that's what I take it as. 'It seems to be a little bit over the top, but it seems to be his way with me.' Longmuir is on a rolling contract with the Dockers, who face top-four aspirants Hawthorn at home on Saturday and could break into the top eight with a win. Fox Footy commentator David King has taken aim at Longmuir. Picture:A loss could hurt their finals chances, but Longmuir said he wouldn't get distracted by the opinions of those paid purely to voice one and would listen only to 'people I trust around this club'. 'I don't get caught up in it because I am always looking forward and looking towards how I can improve my coaching, how I can improve the way we're playing and try to live by the mantra I teach the players every day. And that's living in the moment,' he said. 'I know people get caught up in it and some people around me get caught up in that stuff, but really I am just focused on the opinions of people I trust around this club and doing the best I can.'
News.com.au
10-07-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir lashes pundit David King over constant criticism of Dockers
Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir lined up former Kangaroos star David King and went whack on Thursday, sick of the criticism the media pundit sends his way. Despite winning six of the past seven games, and being only percentage outside the top eight, King said Longmuir was the most 'under pressure' coach following a loss to Sydney. Longmuir wasn't copping it and at his weekly press conference launched into King, confused as to why he and the Dockers were a constant target and questioning whether the premiership winner knew what it took to coach a team. 'If I had $1 for every time someone asked me what I've done to David King, I'd be a rich man and I'd probably be in the Bahamas guts up rather than doing this job,' he said. 'In the end, everyone needs to understand it's just David's opinion. We're a game based on opinion and that's his opinion. That's enough said about it. 'I don't want to be disrespectful towards anyone, but I don't think David's put together a game plan, put together a list, put together a culture. It's just an opinion and that's what I take it as. 'It seems to be a little bit over the top, but it seems to be his way with me.' Longmuir is on a rolling contract with the Dockers, who face top-four aspirants Hawthorn at home on Saturday and could break into the top eight with a win. A loss could hurt their finals chances, but Longmuir said he wouldn't get distracted by the opinions of those paid purely to voice one and would listen only to 'people I trust around this club'. 'I don't get caught up in it because I am always looking forward and looking towards how I can improve my coaching, how I can improve the way we're playing and try to live by the mantra I teach the players every day. And that's living in the moment,' he said. 'I know people get caught up in it and some people around me get caught up in that stuff, but really I am just focused on the opinions of people I trust around this club and doing the best I can.'
