An intensive and “confronting” two-year leadership program underpinned the decision to award online recruitment firm Seek the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Place to Work – Large Organisation.
An intensive and “confronting” two-year leadership program that led to a stronger talent pipeline and improved decision-making by senior executives underpinned the decision to award online recruitment firm Seek the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Place to Work – Large Organisation.
The program was undertaken by Seek’s top 50 executives across Asia-Pacific, including chief executive Ian Narev, and designed to help the recruitment platform achieve its goals of maintaining and increasing market shares in the countries in which Seek operates, as well as various other initiatives such as the application of artificial intelligence.
Executives committed 130 hours of their time over the period.
“People see it as a major investment in them,” Narev says.
Narev concedes the outcomes of the program are hard to measure, but he points to higher engagement scores for participants, the fact that nearly one-fifth have been promoted or have taken on expanded roles over the past 12 months and a survey that shows all participants felt the program had a “positive” effect on their leadership and led to deeper working relationships with colleagues.
The crowning of Seek as the AFR BOSS Best Place to Work – Large Organisation follows its success of 2021 when the recruiter, founded in 1997 by brothers Andrew and Paul Bassat, was named the overall winner.
The overall winner of this year’s best employers’ awards is SixPivot, a technology consultancy company founded in 2015 and which has 40 employees.
SixPivot is also named the AFR BOSS Best Place to Work – Small Organisation, a category that refers to companies with fewer than 100 employees.
The 2024 AFR BOSS Best Place to Work – Medium Organisation is digital consultancy firm Slalom.
The AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards celebrate the achievements of the three key winners, nine industry sector winners and four special award winners. Some 600 companies competed for a place in the awards this year. Behavioural science consultancy Inventium is the judging partner.
