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The Cult of Job-Hop Happy Recruiters

Wow, what a storm last night.  I hope everyone out there in recruitment land is safe and sound this morning, especially the icy South and our wind torn capital.  Quick one from me today as I'm working from home this morning.  No we're not snowed in in Auckland, although the…
Jonathan Rice
June 20, 2013
EmploymentRecruitment

Are We Dehumanising Recruitment?

I received an interesting email this week.  It was from an acquaintance of mine who spent the glory years of recruitment drinking, smoking and consulting his way to the top of the tree in a UK household name in recruitment, before moving here to New Zealand for a "breather" (and…
Jonathan Rice
June 13, 2013
EmploymentJob BoardsRecruitment

Recruitment SEEKonomics

There's an intriguing range of wild and wacky economic indicators being bandied about by some lighter-hearted economists these days.  Have you heard about burgernomics and the Big Mac Index that measures the currency level of a nation against it's average Big Mac price?  (NZ is bang on the money).  Or…
Jonathan Rice
June 6, 2013
Recruitment

Rules of Engagement

I was asked by a client recently what the rules were around rec to rec's making attempted head hunt calls to his staff.    It wasn't a pointed call to me, accusing me of anything.  I've never tried approaching any of his staff because I value our business relationship and…
Jonathan Rice
May 30, 2013
EmploymentRecruitment

Who Cares What the Job Ad Says?

Most of you won't read every word on this blog post.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most of you do much more than skim-read over the content here, casting your well-trained CV-reading eyes at speed from section to section looking for the key bits of interest that might…
Jonathan Rice
May 16, 2013
Recruitment

Fergie’s Retirement and Pointless Job Briefs

Most of you will be aware by now that football's most cantankerous, cheating, boorish, red-nosed, successful manager of all time has announced his retirement from management.  Imagine, if you will, that you were the recruitment consultant commissioned by the Manchester United board to conduct an executive search assignment for finding…
Jonathan Rice
May 9, 2013
Human ResourcesRecruitment

Sourcing Summit Special Offer

This week we have an awesome special offer for all of you cool, savvy and switched-on Whiteboard readers.  The company that brought the much talked about RHUB to New Zealand last year are bringing the first ever Sourcing Summit #SOSUNZ to Auckland in just a couple of weeks' time and…
Jonathan Rice
May 2, 2013
Recruitment

ANZAC Hangover…Is Anyone Recruiting Out There?

Welcome to another Friday Whiteboard and I hope you all had an enjoyable ANZAC Day off yesterday.  I received an offer for a candidate which wasn't entirely expected on a public holiday, but there you go, always recruiting and all that.  I made the call before 1pm too so hopefully…
Jonathan Rice
April 25, 2013
Recruitment

Seven Month Itch – AoG revisited

The big news in our industry last year was undoubtedly the shenanigans in our capital city resulting in a panel of 40+ recruitment suppliers onto the All of Government recruitment services contract.  After what eventually descended into a bitter and acrimonious RFP process characterised by finger-pointing, points-scoring and pants-dropping by many…
Jonathan Rice
April 18, 2013