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Contractor Recruitment Firms Ambushed By IRD

I'm afraid this isn't going to be the most entertaining or titillating of Whiteboard blog posts but it's about something of great importance to our New Zealand recruitment industry, so I feel if pretty much behooves me to talk about it today. In particular if you are a Contractor specialist…
Jonathan Rice
March 16, 2017
Recruitment

Handling the Triumph and Disaster of Recruitment

For many New Zealand recruitment companies (and most UK ones too) March marks the end of the financial year. It's a time of high stress for all involved. In a financial results driven industry like ours, we are in the final few days' countdown to making those last ditch placements…
Jonathan Rice
March 9, 2017
Recruitment

Old School Recruiter Control

When I started out in recruitment in the middle of last decade I was lucky enough to receive some pretty good training from a company renowned for developing and growing fledgling recruiters. Many of those learnings have stuck with me over the years but one aspect in particular shines with the greatest…
Jonathan Rice
March 2, 2017
EmploymentRecruitment

The Trolling Of Recruiters

The internet has given rise to many amazing things that have helped make the world a more connected place. But for all the positives it is undoubtedly balanced out by a lot of downsides too, not least of which is the platform it has afforded complete and utter idiots to…
Jonathan Rice
February 23, 2017
Recruitment

Applying Your Recruitment Superpowers To Real Life

Every time I browse through Netflix nowadays there seems to be another film or TV series about seemingly normal people discovering they have hitherto undiscovered superpowers.  Things like The OA, Daredevil and Sense8, and doubtless countless more all tap into the boring drudgery of many people's modern lives and briefly light…
Jonathan Rice
February 9, 2017
Recruitment

A New Year Heralds New Recruitment Firms

*** This is a re-post of the article originally posted on 13th January 2017 but was stolen by evil space invaders. Thanks to the genius of Rob Gordon for recovering this! *** Welcome back recruiters of New Zealand, or whoever else, or wherever else you may be. For it it…
Jonathan Rice
January 30, 2017
Recruitment

Calm Before The Storm

2016 was mental. Do you remember? Or is it all a distant memory already? Mentally busy, that is, for many of us in recruitment. I know it was mental in many other celebrity-deaths, global-politics, underdog-sporting-heroes kind of ways but I'm here to talk about recruitment. Many agencies posted strong results,…
Jonathan Rice
January 19, 2017