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Famous Last Words

Yesterday I spoke at RCSA’s Talent X conference. It's been a while since I've attended a conference, and I'd forgot how much I enjoy them. Either that, or Talent X exceeded my expectations in terms of attendees, content, and format. Although it's slightly odd wearing headphones all day and moving…

Sean WaltersOctober 24, 2025

Employment Job Boards Recruitment Work

Submission Accomplished

This week I’ve been thinking about submissions. No, not arm bars, rear-naked chokes, or paying a leather-clad escort to urinate on me (although that has crossed my mind). I mean the increasingly common necessity for us recruiters to write stuff telling people how great we are at something in order…

Sean WaltersOctober 17, 2025

Job Boards Recruitment Work

2025 SARA finalists announced. Here’s my picks.

Santa comes but once a year, but when he does he empties his sack. Well here I am folks, ready to empty my sack over this year's SARA nominees. Metaphorically of course. Last year I managed a meagre 1 out of 8. The year before, slightly better with a statistically…

Sean WaltersOctober 10, 2025

Employment Recruitment Work

I came to rant… but the market wouldn’t shut up

I don’t know what's going on currently. Each Friday, I sit here thinking I can go on some random tirade, and each Friday I seem to be presented with some actual recruitment news. In what should be a stagnant market, there seems to be plenty of winners, losers, launchers, sellers,…

Sean WaltersOctober 3, 2025

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

On the record about “off the record”

I don't know how I feel about "off the record" references. This is rare for me. Usually, I pick a side, swing for the fences, and die on that hill. Often publicly via this blog. In the most part, I loathe them. I think they're cowardly, shady, and borderline defamatory.…

Sean WaltersSeptember 26, 2025

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

Stuart Nash…and other irrelevancies

Much to the bookmakers' delight, I avoided this one last week. Although the story broke just at the moment when I'm typically scratching around for a blog topic, I knew that the magnitude of the story would see it more-than-covered in the mainstream press. Yes, it would have been easy…

Sean WaltersSeptember 18, 2025

Employment Recruitment Work

Emergent SOLD! Guess who bought it…

I have many strange hobbies. I collect knives. I train and teach Aikido. I collect gold and silver bullion. And I stay up until the wee hours watching documentaries on serial killers, fraudsters, forgotten weapons, and unsolved mysteries. Perhaps strangest of all is my addiction to the Companies Office website.…

Sean WaltersSeptember 12, 2025

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

Life after Recruitment, when recruitment is life

I read a semi-interesting Herald article about anti-abortionist Chris Luxon this week. Being semi-interesting, it was of course behind a paywall, so apologies if you can't read it. For those who refuse to pay for news, it highlights how Luxon's approval rating is at a two year low, having dropped…

Sean WaltersSeptember 5, 2025

Employment Recruitment Uncategorized

The Lynx Effect: The smell of success…or stench of desperation?

This is a story about a young recruitment entrepreneur selling his first business, whilst also building two other recruitment brands. Or maybe it's not. Perhaps it's a story about a fire sale of the last profitable remnants of a distrusted brand, made without choice to cut losses and pay debts.…

Sean WaltersAugust 29, 2025

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Recruiters, Rivals & the Death Rattle of Desperation

And once again, my hands are tied. This was promised to be a blog with some juicy industry gossip, and it very nearly was. However, after a few conversations yesterday, my editor (I do my own editing) has opted to veto the scoop. The reason: once the dust has settled,…

Sean WaltersAugust 22, 2025

Famous Last Words

Submission Accomplished

2025 SARA finalists announced. Here’s my picks.

Famous Last Words

Submission Accomplished

2025 SARA finalists announced. Here’s my picks.

I came to rant… but the market wouldn’t shut up

On the record about “off the record”

Stuart Nash…and other irrelevancies

Emergent SOLD! Guess who bought it…

Life after Recruitment, when recruitment is life

The Lynx Effect: The smell of success…or stench of desperation?

Recruiters, Rivals & the Death Rattle of Desperation

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