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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
RecruitmentUncategorized

Emoji Recruiting…

...Or more specifically, recruiting for an emoji translator. Fancy taking on an assignment like that? Us recruiters in New Zealand are typically more resourceful and innovative than most. Out of necessity, due the small size of our talent pool, we have had to develop sourcing and recruiting skills with a…
Jonathan Rice
December 15, 2016
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How to Handle Resigning

Today's blog post comes to you sandwiched between last night's RicePowWow and today's office party (followed by my football team's Christmas drinks) so please forgive me if I sound kind of distracted. And husky. Why do these things always require so much talking? Not that many of you will notice,…
Jonathan Rice
December 8, 2016
Recruitment

May The Silly Season Commence

Good morning recruiters, a quick one from me today as I have things to do and people to see around the glittering environs of Auckland's North Shore (much to Sean's dismay, he seems to think he needs a passport to cross the bridge...) A couple of people dug out a…
Jonathan Rice
December 1, 2016
Recruitment

Beware Recruiters! The Robots Are Coming!

Or not, depending on your particular point of view. Or more realistically, depending on how many clicks you are trying to get on your article. Or how many eyeballs you're trying to direct to your snazzy new bauble that will supposedly disrupt us recruiters and the recruitment industry. Again. I've…
Jonathan Rice
November 24, 2016
Recruitment

The One Lesson Recruiters Can Learn from Trump

This isn't a blog post about Donald Trump. The biggest political story in over a century has been commented on by people with far more insight and erudition than me, and I'm sure will be for weeks and months to come. Especially as we start to witness the unfolding horror…
Jonathan Rice
November 10, 2016