Fewer roles advertised, a record number of applications per ad, and salaries still climbing. The August read on Australia's senior marketing, creative, digital and product hiring market.

Traditional recruitment pays out the day a candidate signs - months before you know if the hire actually worked. Outcome-Based Hiring spreads the cost across the first year, and the payments stop if the hire doesn't stay. Here's how it works.

After months of searching, the hardest decision can be to walk away. The red flags worth pausing on before you sign - and how to treat a stopgap role as a bridge, not a destination.