Sean Walters

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Why Recruiters Don’t “Get” Diversity

It was TV gold this week as National's new leader, Todd Muller, announced his frontbench. In what was accurately described by Newshub as a "shemozzle", when pressed on diversity, a nervous Nikki Kaye highlighted that Paul Goldsmith was "obviously Ngāti Porou". The problem is, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Goldsmith isn't actually…

Sean WaltersMay 29, 2020

Human Resources Politics

The Three Approaches to Recovery

Like having unprotected sex with a chlamydic super model, it was with mixed emotions that I found myself riding into work yesterday morning. Not "mixed" because I'm yet to organise my sock draw, but more so from the time it took to traverse the 20 kilometers across Auckland. Those who…

Sean WaltersMay 15, 2020

Employment Human Resources

All Bets Are Off

I've been listening to a lot of Country music recently. Maybe it's my Titirangi-bound self isolation conjuring up fantasies of a lonesome cowboy, squinting across the prairie. Or perhaps the bleak economic outlook has slung me into a bout of maudlin self-pity which makes songs like "She's actin' single (I'm…

Sean WaltersMay 1, 2020

Employment Job Boards

Is it Immoral to Build Your Recruitment Database Right Now?

We've been writing a recruitment blog here at Rice Consulting since December 2009. Originally under the penmanship of Jonathan Rice, several people have been passed the ceremonial marker pen over the years, with it currently being squabbled over by Scott Burnett, and yours truly, the Merchant of Menace, the Big…

Sean WaltersApril 17, 2020

Work

The Great Leap Forward. Or Backward.

You have to admit; it really is an incredible time to be alive. My Grandad flew RAF bombers during the Second World War. And apart from firebombing the innocent women and children of Dresden, it was the most vivid and defining time of his life. Plucked from a working class…

Sean WaltersApril 3, 2020

Employment Human Resources Politics

A Seemingly Unpopular Opinion on a Global Pandemic

I want to blog about self-isolation. Actually, tell a lie. I'd rather talk about almost anything else. Unfortunately, like Basil Fawlty not mentioning the war to the Germans, it's very difficult to write a blog this week that isn't about Covid-19. However, following on from my previous blog, I still…

Sean WaltersMarch 20, 2020

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

Recruiters – Just Hang On In There

There's a fantastic scene in Forrest Gump. In it, after promising an army buddy on his death bed that he'd set up a shrimping business, Forrest fritters away his savings on a boat. Due to over-fishing from the competition, day after day, all they catch is the occasional gumboot. Then…

Sean WaltersMarch 13, 2020

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Truly Terrible Recruitment Agency Ideas

Many years ago, I had the idea of creating a meat-flavoured fizzy beverage in a can. Y’know, for those moments when you want the refreshment and sugar rush of a cola, but also the comfort of some good old fashioned home cooking. Sadly, interest in “Lambonade” was weak to say…

Sean WaltersMarch 6, 2020

Human Resources

The problem with References

I love the sound of references being taken. Like the first sight of a rain cloud to a Waikato dairy farmer, it heralds an imminent change of circumstances. Thankfully here at Rice HQ we've had a bumper week, so there's been plenty of "for the purposes of the privacy act..."…

Sean WaltersFebruary 21, 2020

Employment Recruitment

The Most Important Trait of a Successful Recruiter

Maybe it’s the time of year, but I’m still in a thoughtful mood. As I was trying to kick-start my own desk for 2020, I got to thinking about what it really was that I needed to do to make some goddam placements. I asked myself: What single trait, characteristic,…

Sean WaltersFebruary 7, 2020