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Jonathan Rice

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All of Government Round Two: The “VFM” Factor

Ding Ding.  Round Two of New Zealand's "All of Government" recruitment tender is about to get underway.  The impressive communication channels between MED and the bidding recruiters have hummed into life once more and further instructions sent out over the past week. The pertinent points: 82 recruitment firms submitted tenders to provide external recruitment services…
Jonathan Rice
June 28, 2012
Recruitment

Too Hot to Cold Call?

Talofa everyone.  Your regular Whiteboard blogger is back, refreshed and revitalised, ready to squeak and squeal my chunky marker pen across the recruitment industry’s consciousness once again.  Thanks Sean and Estelle for your guest blogging contributions over the past couple of weeks.  I’m sure it was a welcome relief for…
Jonathan Rice
June 21, 2012
Recruitment

Wellington Recruiters play the Waiting Game

I'm back in sunny Auckland this morning after a couple of days in Wellington where I went on a mission to cram in as many client visits as possible to get a feel for the mood of our capital's recruitment community following the submissions of the tenders for the "All of…
Jonathan Rice
May 24, 2012
EmploymentRecruitment

Facebook for Recruitment: What’s not to “Like”?

Facebook has been in the news rather a lot lately as various corners of the media, communications, business and financial worlds get increasingly frenzied about today's Initial Public Offering.  While we in recruitment wring our hands together in earnest confusion over whether or not male recruiters should wear ties, Zuckerburg is rocking…
Jonathan Rice
May 17, 2012
Recruitment

Recruitment Ad Chasing 101

This week is blog post number 101 on The Whiteboard and funnily enough I bring to you some recruitment 101 advice about ad chasing.  Over six months ago I wrote a piece on new ways for agency recruiters to p*ss off internal recruiters when we came across something even worse…
Jonathan Rice
April 26, 2012