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Go Medium-Large, or Go Home

Today's blog is about Football. Historically I've always avoided the topic, as previous Rice bloggers have more than made up for my lack of participation in the subject. Just behind AoG, the RCSA and thinly-veiled criticisms of Consult, football would rank up there with the most fertile of blogging potting…
Sean Walters
March 15, 2024
EmploymentPoliticsRecruitment

The Curse of All of Government

Aaaaand we're back to this old chestnut. I saw an article this week featuring those good folk from Accordant in the NBR. As no one pays for the NBR anymore except dinosaurs like Jon Rice, I thought I'd share. The synopsis reads as follows: Accordant says its revenue from public…
Sean Walters
March 8, 2024
RecruitmentSourcing

The Ten Commandments of Recruitment

The last few years have not presented ideal conditions to learn the craft of recruitment. The post-Covid bounce, coupled with the dearth of candidates has skewed the nature of what recruitment really is. If you have started your career during this period, and forgetting the past 12 months, you could…
Sean Walters
February 23, 2024
EmploymentHuman ResourcesRecruitment

What’s your favourite “ism”?

I've been thinking about "isms" this week. No, not prisms, organisms, or specialisms. More so sexism, racism, ageism, and..errm..homophobia-ism. It's always difficult to write a blog about isms however, especially when you fit squarely into a demographic which has never been on the receiving end of one. I'm an (annoyingly)…
Sean Walters
February 9, 2024
EmploymentHuman ResourcesPoliticsRecruitment

How Awful Are We?

If you spend any amount of time on LinkedIn, you'll see that Recruitment Consultants are almost universally disliked. Recently I've spent a bit of time dealing with other industries who are also perceived as being awful. Here's my ratings: Real Estate Agents I've just sold and bought a house, so…
Sean Walters
January 26, 2024
Recruitment

“Sorry. We’ve already got their CV”

...and this is where the average Recruiter moves on. After advertising a role, or perhaps headhunting a candidate, phone screening them, interviewing them, selling them on an opportunity, and finally presenting them to a hiring manager or internal recruiter, we stop dead in our tracks. For those of you not…
Sean Walters
January 19, 2024