Sean Walters

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment Work

2024: A Year.

I've asked a few recruiters of late how 2024 has been for them, and comments have ranged from "worse than the GFC" to "f*ckin' sh*te mate". Thankfully, it is all but over. SEEK were kind enough to buy me a few beers and some lovely socks this week, and overall…

Sean WaltersDecember 20, 2024

Human Resources Recruitment Work

An alternative guide to surviving the work Christmas party

LinkedIn is currently full of content like this. Typically however, it’s the creation of some poor social media intern hired by a marketing agency hired by an international job board, who is tasked with churning out 500 vanilla words. Given that we can’t afford a social media intern, it will…

Sean WaltersDecember 13, 2024

Employment Human Resources Politics

180,000 reasons not to get a pay rise

Being originally from the UK, I find the MMP voting system here refreshingly "European". For those who don't know or care, the UK, being stuck in the 1930s, uses the outdated "first past the post" system. To explain briefly, the UK is divided into over 600 constituencies. Come election time,…

Sean WaltersDecember 6, 2024

Job Boards Recruitment

2024 SARAs: And the winners are…

As you may know from the number of hungover Recruiters lurching around town this morning, last night was the SARAs. Sadly, there were no punch-ups this year, but it was held in a beautiful venue and the vibe was pretty good. Many people came up to me and complained about…

Sean WaltersNovember 29, 2024

Employment Recruitment

Robert Walters exit the Christchurch market

“Cause I lost my job two weeks before Christmas” sings the late, great Sixto Rodriguez in his 1971 non-hit “Cause”. If a sadder first line of a sadder song has ever been written, I don’t want to hear it. Unfortunately for some, life is imitating art right now in the…

Sean WaltersNovember 21, 2024

Employment Recruitment

The “Restraint of Trade” and how to bully people with it

Contrary to what our SEEK applicants would believe, we are not typically in the business of placing bakers into recruitment jobs. As a specialist recruitment provider, and staying on a doughy theme, our "bread and butter" is placing those with recruitment experience into recruitment jobs. And this is the case…

Sean WaltersNovember 15, 2024

Human Resources Politics Recruitment

The Company We Keep

The recent US election result proves to us that the world is a truly terrible place. However, given the 2024 most of us have had, we didn’t need an election to highlight this. I was speaking to a recruitment GM this week who felt that October was our lowest point,…

Sean WaltersNovember 8, 2024

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

The “Candidate Care” Myth

My au pair told me on Wednesday that I should start a podcast where I share my wildly unpopular opinions. I get the sense that this is because she's fed up with hearing them. I told her that I have a blog for this very purpose, however, try as I…

Sean WaltersNovember 1, 2024

Job Boards Recruitment

Why SEEK can never lose

There seems to be a few misconceptions regarding my view of SEEK. It appears that in 2024, you can't criticise their account management, their communication, the scam that is variable pricing, and take the p*ss out of their awards, without being accused of not liking something. For the record, I…

Sean WaltersOctober 25, 2024

Job Boards Uncategorized

2024 SARA finalists announced. Here’s my picks.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just when you think the well of blogging topics has run dry, SEEK go and announce the finalists for this year's SARAs. What has fast become a tradition, and even by request of SEEKs very own Dave Swift, here's my chance to upset everyone…

Sean WaltersOctober 18, 2024