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Exit Wounds

I'm back! Due to shoulder surgery, I'm typing this blog one-handed; a skill I thankfully developed going through puberty in the early days of dial-up internet, so please excuse the brevity. Yes, I know it's not even been three weeks, but when you write a blog every week (without fail…
Sean Walters
July 17, 2026
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500 Agency Recruiters Placed (and counting…)

With Sean Walters undergoing shoulder surgery yesterday, he is unable to chisel upon the Whiteboard slate his usual recruitment commandments, and so it’s an opportunity for me to pop back into the blogosphere this week. He will doubtless blame his ailments on having to “carry the recruitment industry on his…
Jonathan Rice
July 3, 2026
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One in, One out

These blogs tend to go through phases. A few months writing about "All of Government". A few bemoaning the RCSA. A month or two of trite comedy pieces. Currently, I'm on a global recruitment buzz. This is of course good news if you don't work at a global recruitment firm…
Sean Walters
June 12, 2026
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Wellington?? Really?? Again???

And here we are again. Well here you are, I'm actually in Fiji, but regardless; the government announced this week that it's cutting nearly 9,000 public sector jobs over the next three years. Finance Minister Nicola Willis framed it as a modernisation story: fewer silos, more AI, $2.4 billion in…
Sean Walters
May 22, 2026