Sean Walters

Tough times creating bad candidate experiences

Have you ever noticed how high demand affects the quality of customer service we experience? If you've ever found yourself shopping on Oxford Street in London at Christmas time, you'll see this. Chubby, sallow-skinned English women wrestling Zara tops from each other to then be treated like cattle by equally…

Sean WaltersJuly 19, 2024

Employment Politics Recruitment

Things can only get (worse before they get) better

I've become a real doom-monger of late. And of all the "mongers" to be, doom are probably the worst. They're certainly the least fun at parties. However, writing New Zealand's third best recruitment blog in 2024 has sealed my fate. My Thursday evenings are spent trying to dig up a…

Sean WaltersJuly 12, 2024

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

MBIE: Procurement, with all the charm of gum disease

Birthdays are a special time. A time to reflect on progress and achievements. A time to look to the future with renewed optimism. No matter what you've gone through, a birthday marks the start of a new year. And "new year" can mean "new you". And so it is as…

Sean WaltersJuly 5, 2024

Job Boards Recruitment Technology

Is SEEK’s “variable pricing” a scam?

Given that it was only this week that we entered the annual SARA Awards, now is not the time to be bagging SEEK in a blog. However, regular readers will know that this blog isn't about being commercially astute. It's about gossip, rumours, wild conjecture, and calling it as it…

Sean WaltersJune 21, 2024

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

The RCSA Awards: And the winners are…

My word is it that time of year again? Regular readers will know that I typically scrape two blogs apiece from our two recruitment industry awards here in Aotearoa - one to make a prediction, and one to name the winners and demonstrate how little I know. My trip to…

Sean WaltersJune 14, 2024

Politics Recruitment Work

Five BIG stories from the world of Recruitment

Regular readers will know that I often find myself scraping around for a blog topic on a Friday morning. Not so today. Following the blog hotline ringing off the hook this week, here's a snapshot of FIVE big things that have happened to the industry. Think of this like a…

Sean WaltersMay 31, 2024

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How to get a pay rise in recruitment

With unemployment at a three year high, and very little recruitment going on, now's the perfect time to get a pay rise. Here's a guide. Move to the agency with the highest base salaries Staffed by former wife-beaters, drug addicts, and Somalian pirates, this move is sure to see you…

Sean WaltersMay 24, 2024

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

The echoes of AoG: Pushing Wellington Recruiters to their limit…and beyond

It pains me to report that life for recruiters in our capital is set to get worse before it gets any better. This week, it was bought to my attention that not content in forcing recruiters to work to the dismal rates of the new(ish) AoG contract, a number of…

Sean WaltersMay 17, 2024

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Recruiters and their handcuffs

We're all mature enough to admit that sometimes nothing beats being handcuffed to a bedpost and spanked by a friend, colleague, or loved one. Not all handcuffs provide stressed-out recruiters with kinky relief however. Some bind us to doing jobs we really don't want to be doing. Actually, it's not…

Sean WaltersMay 10, 2024

Human Resources Recruitment

Who killed Internal Recruitment?

It's been a week here at Rice & Co. Claudia is attacking the agency rec to rec desk like a woman possessed. We made a big placement which will set tongues a-waggin' across the industry. And I received a call that vindicates the many hours I spend writing opinionated nonsense…

Sean WaltersMay 3, 2024