Sean Walters

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

Recruitment

10 Predictable Predictions for Recruitment in 2020

Apologies for the slightly clichéd blog topic today. Y'see, this is my first blog of the year following two straight months of babysitting my partner's family who have been visiting from the UK. And two months of best behaviour and living cheek-by-jowl with the in-laws is certainly enough to give…

Sean WaltersJanuary 24, 2020

Employment Politics Recruitment

Have you got a seedy past? Don’t worry. So have I.

Judging by my Facebook, Election fever has reached boiling point in the UK. Talking about politics via social media is always a race to the bottom, and if you stick around a thread long enough, someone will demonstrate a surprising level of Islamophobia, "friends" will be deleted, and eventually, at…

Sean WaltersDecember 13, 2019

Recruitment

Commission Critical

Trying to define and then describe the internal culture of a recruitment company is always a nebulous activity. Not until you visit an office do you get a "feel" for what is really happening behind the scenes. And even after this client visit, we still describe what we see in…

Sean WaltersNovember 15, 2019

Employment

What Not to Wear

"I'll teach you. I'll teach you to cover your arms and not be such a lazy, tattooed oaf." Bob Walker, October 2019, Rice HQ The above broadside was aimed at me last week by the inimitable Bob Walker. Bob's been spending a bit of time at Rice Towers recently, working…

Sean WaltersNovember 1, 2019

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Why Recruiters Bomb Psychometric Testing: A pub psychologist speaks out.

For those who don't know already, we earn a living by recruiting recruiters. This is an activity that has been described as both "herding cats" and "aligning two constantly moving targets". I'd agree with both sentiments, and also add that having recruited across multiple sectors, both internally and agency-side, and…

Sean WaltersOctober 17, 2019

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Surprise, Surprise! Uber Launches a Job App

Well it had to happen eventually. Yesterday (or today depending on where in the world you are), Uber announced the launch of their "Uber Works" platform, with an initial trial being rolled out across Chicago. Being the doyens of all things "gig", the only surprise is that they waited until…

Sean WaltersOctober 3, 2019

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Parkinson’s Law and the Growth of Recruitment Companies

In 1955, English historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote, in an essay published in The Economist, the following adage: "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" He derived this dictum from him time spent in the British Civil Service, and consequently summed up the inner workings…

Sean WaltersSeptember 19, 2019

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

Recession? Who Cares?!

If you were to listen to most economists, or read articles such as this, it would appear that the future is looking, frankly, quite grim. We have the US entering trade wars with China, and potentially real wars with North Korea and...Denmark. We have the UK in utter turmoil as…

Sean WaltersSeptember 5, 2019

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Just How “Authentic” Are We?

"Does a struggling salesman start turning up on a bicycle? No, he turns up in a newer car - perception, yeah?" (David Brent, 2001) Once upon a time, the above satirical quote from everyone's favourite fictional fuck-wit boss would have been pretty solid business advice. Up until the GFC kicked…

Sean WaltersAugust 22, 2019

The Most Important Trait of a Successful Recruiter

10 Predictable Predictions for Recruitment in 2020

Commission Critical

What Not to Wear

Why Recruiters Bomb Psychometric Testing: A pub psychologist speaks out.

Parkinson’s Law and the Growth of Recruitment Companies

Recession? Who Cares?!

Just How “Authentic” Are We?

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