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Throwing Sh*t at a Wall and calling it Recruitment

What is recruitment?  There are many different answers to this question but for us in the agency recruitment world, it is essentially the act of representing a client's business and filling a vacancy by marketing their employment opportunity to the jobseeker market.  Of course, this has greatly evolved over the years…
Jonathan Rice
November 29, 2012
EmploymentRecruitment

Recruitment Black Holes and Revelations

If you've been in recruitment long enough you will no doubt be tired by now of hearing about our "terrible reputation" for feedback, follow up, returning calls...for adequately communicating.  Surprising accusation of an industry that really exists to network, build relationships and make matches through various communication channels. Witness the…
Jonathan Rice
November 22, 2012
Recruitment

Counting Job Ads Is No Economic Barometer

So apparently the unemployment rate in New Zealand is going to creep up towards the 7% mark over the next 6 months.  That's the assertion made by The Herald recently anyway, in its reporting of the ANZ September job ad statistics which revealed that job ads had fallen to their…
Jonathan Rice
November 1, 2012
Recruitment

Beware the Rec-to-Rec “Troll”!

It's been a while since I've seen one of those e-mail threads of crazy recruitment methods or behaviours going viral.  Either recruitment has entered an extended period of grace (if only), or the explosion of social media sharing, liking and retweeting has reduced the humble e-mail thread to an old-fashioned…
Jonathan Rice
September 27, 2012