Sean Walters

2023 Predictions: A Timeline

Welcome back folks. Or welcome back some folks. Once again, and moronically, I find myself surprised by how few people are back to work already. This is my 12th January in Aotearoa, and yet each year I think it's going to be different. Call me a curmudgeon, but by the…

Sean WaltersJanuary 13, 2023

Employment Recruitment

Christmas just ain’t the same anymore. Thankfully.

7 years ago, I wouldn't be writing this. Although we are religious in pumping a blog out every Friday, and have been for 12 years, should a Friday coincide with the last day of the year, we'd put up some mildly comedic photoshopped image and be done with it. Writing…

Sean WaltersDecember 23, 2022

Human Resources Recruitment Work

Recruitment Consultant Stereotypes: Which are you?

If you've been about Auckland City this week, you may have seen a sweaty 100kg man flying around on a moped. One minute, sweating under the sun like a paedophile in a playground, and the next, as wet as an otter's pocket. That man was me. Having temporarily taken over…

Sean WaltersDecember 16, 2022

Human Resources Recruitment

Who’d be a Rec to Rec?

I never wanted to work in Rec to Rec. In fact, of all the desks in recruitment, 12 years ago it would have been bottom of my list. It would have been so far down in fact, that I would have told you that I would have been a real…

Sean WaltersDecember 9, 2022

Human Resources

Immigration Ill-Advisors

Do you know who deserve a worse reputation than Recruitment Consultants? Drivers who don't indicate. And Immigration Advisors. Now before I climb this week's soapbox, let me be clear; If you're the type of Immigration Advisor who works with businesses to get them accredited, or helps companies in any way…

Sean WaltersNovember 25, 2022

Employment Human Resources Politics Technology

High Risk – High Reward: The life of an Internal Recruiter

This week's top employment story comes to us by way of Meta, the parent company of Facebook. Following disastrous advertising revenue in a post-Covid world, and heavy investment in creating a virtual world as this one is rubbish, Zuckerberg has had to give the old heave-ho to 11,000 workers globally.…

Sean WaltersNovember 11, 2022

Employment Politics Recruitment

All of Government Part 5: Was it all a Dream?

I used to have a recurring nightmare of being chased by battle tanks across the farm my Grandparents lived on. Although the tanks were slow-moving, in this dream, my legs felt like lead weights, making me even slower. As always, I was relieved to wake up just as I was…

Sean WaltersOctober 28, 2022

Recruitment Sourcing

“Poaching” isn’t a dirty word. It’s just incorrect.

A recent post from the RCSA was highlighted to me today. Now I'm not one to read these things usually, but given their commendable involvement in dealing with the clowns at MBIE recently, I've taken a bigger interest in our(*) governing body of late (*yours, not mine). The post can…

Sean WaltersOctober 14, 2022

Recruitment

What’s in a name?

If you're reading this, you're one of the (un)lucky ones. It seems that my recent tirades against MBIE have both offended the quick-to-complain Procurement industry, as well us incurring the wrath of LinkedIn's anti-hate speech algorithms. My blog posts, which have typically been generating circa 15,000 impressions, are now generating…

Sean WaltersSeptember 30, 2022

Employment

All of Government Part 4: MBIE Cr@p their pants

Very rarely do I get so much mileage from one topic. Thankfully, the numbskulls at MBIE have made my blogging so much easier of late. For those of you who haven't been following the All of Government "Gen 3" tender process (or for journalists who call me about it to…

Sean WaltersSeptember 16, 2022