What will 2020 bring you? With wellness dominating a lot of resolutions what personal improvement can we show in working lives?
Scott BurnettJanuary 17, 2020
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me. I ain't got nothing but work babe, FOUR days a week! What is a normal working week and is that likely to change? Some pretty strong signs indicate that may be the case 🚶♂️🏃♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️
Scott BurnettDecember 20, 2019
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
Truthfully? To be honest, everyone lies. There is however a big difference between embellishing your salary by a couple of G's and falsifying a payslip.
Scott BurnettDecember 6, 2019
Rice Consulting turns 10 next week, a proud moment, so please allow me this slightly indulgent bit of nostalgia. Thanks to everyone who has been part of an amazing decade in #NZRec.
Jonathan RiceNovember 29, 2019
The recruitment industry gathered under a silk cloth of glamour last night as the Auckland War Memorial played host to the 17th annual Seek Awards. A night fraught with winners, losers, jeers, and cheers. Other than the Pow Wows of old, it's the only time I get to observe all…
Scott BurnettNovember 22, 2019
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
It’s getting to that time of year when a notice period means that a candidate will be starting a new role in 2020. With most agencies closing their doors on Friday the 20th December this year NZ enters that vocational hibernation a whole working week before the big day. I…
Scott BurnettNovember 8, 2019
"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
Little light-hearted blog this week in light of recent events. For those readers 50 and over; the blue words are links to websites 🤭
Scott BurnettOctober 25, 2019
