A candidate accepts your offer. They hand in their notice. Their current employer comes back with more money, a new title, a promise that things will change this time. They stay. Nine months later, they've left anyway.

The Australian events landscape is currently navigating a period of profound transition. After the frantic "rebound" years following the pandemic, where the primary challenge was simply managing the overwhelming influx of deferred demand, we have entered a more disciplined, competitive, and normalised market.

In the events industry, timing is everything. We obsess over timelines, run sheets, milestones and deadlines, yet one of the most damaging delays in business often goes unmeasured and unnoticed: the delay in hiring.