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Jonathan Rice

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Hot Recruitment Desks (And Other Tall Tales)

This decade has seen an increase in the popularity of activity based working and hot-desking.  Well, it's been increasingly popular among company owners and shareholders at least, who see it as a way of reducing office costs while boosting innovation and collaboration. Not so popular with the desk jockeys themselves…
Jonathan Rice
April 6, 2017
RecruitmentSourcing

Social Recruitment Is Losing Its Way

Thanks to everyone who attended the RicePowWow last night, it was a great evening.  The talk from Jacqui Wall from Umbrella on building resilience in recruitment is certainly coming in handy with the somewhat fragile nature of me and my team this morning. One comment made last night, out of the…
Jonathan Rice
March 30, 2017
EmploymentRecruitment

Are Boozy Recruitment Lunches Endangered?

The "long lunch" is an established phenomenon of the workplace particularly within the central business districts and professional services environments of our world.  The "long" aspect of the lunch also has nothing to do with the period of time spent eating, of course, more the amount of post-lunch alcoholic drinks…
Jonathan Rice
March 23, 2017
Recruitment

Contractor Recruitment Firms Ambushed By IRD

I'm afraid this isn't going to be the most entertaining or titillating of Whiteboard blog posts but it's about something of great importance to our New Zealand recruitment industry, so I feel if pretty much behooves me to talk about it today. In particular if you are a Contractor specialist…
Jonathan Rice
March 16, 2017
Recruitment

Handling the Triumph and Disaster of Recruitment

For many New Zealand recruitment companies (and most UK ones too) March marks the end of the financial year. It's a time of high stress for all involved. In a financial results driven industry like ours, we are in the final few days' countdown to making those last ditch placements…
Jonathan Rice
March 9, 2017
Recruitment

Old School Recruiter Control

When I started out in recruitment in the middle of last decade I was lucky enough to receive some pretty good training from a company renowned for developing and growing fledgling recruiters. Many of those learnings have stuck with me over the years but one aspect in particular shines with the greatest…
Jonathan Rice
March 2, 2017
EmploymentRecruitment

The Trolling Of Recruiters

The internet has given rise to many amazing things that have helped make the world a more connected place. But for all the positives it is undoubtedly balanced out by a lot of downsides too, not least of which is the platform it has afforded complete and utter idiots to…
Jonathan Rice
February 23, 2017
Recruitment

Applying Your Recruitment Superpowers To Real Life

Every time I browse through Netflix nowadays there seems to be another film or TV series about seemingly normal people discovering they have hitherto undiscovered superpowers.  Things like The OA, Daredevil and Sense8, and doubtless countless more all tap into the boring drudgery of many people's modern lives and briefly light…
Jonathan Rice
February 9, 2017