Employment

I came to rant… but the market wouldn’t shut up

I don’t know what's going on currently. Each Friday, I sit here thinking I can go on some random tirade, and each Friday I seem to be presented with some actual recruitment news. In what should be a stagnant market, there seems to be plenty of winners, losers, launchers, sellers,…

Sean WaltersOctober 3, 2025

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

On the record about “off the record”

I don't know how I feel about "off the record" references. This is rare for me. Usually, I pick a side, swing for the fences, and die on that hill. Often publicly via this blog. In the most part, I loathe them. I think they're cowardly, shady, and borderline defamatory.…

Sean WaltersSeptember 26, 2025

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

Stuart Nash…and other irrelevancies

Much to the bookmakers' delight, I avoided this one last week. Although the story broke just at the moment when I'm typically scratching around for a blog topic, I knew that the magnitude of the story would see it more-than-covered in the mainstream press. Yes, it would have been easy…

Sean WaltersSeptember 18, 2025

Employment Recruitment Work

Emergent SOLD! Guess who bought it…

I have many strange hobbies. I collect knives. I train and teach Aikido. I collect gold and silver bullion. And I stay up until the wee hours watching documentaries on serial killers, fraudsters, forgotten weapons, and unsolved mysteries. Perhaps strangest of all is my addiction to the Companies Office website.…

Sean WaltersSeptember 12, 2025

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

Life after Recruitment, when recruitment is life

I read a semi-interesting Herald article about anti-abortionist Chris Luxon this week. Being semi-interesting, it was of course behind a paywall, so apologies if you can't read it. For those who refuse to pay for news, it highlights how Luxon's approval rating is at a two year low, having dropped…

Sean WaltersSeptember 5, 2025

Employment Recruitment Uncategorized

The Lynx Effect: The smell of success…or stench of desperation?

This is a story about a young recruitment entrepreneur selling his first business, whilst also building two other recruitment brands. Or maybe it's not. Perhaps it's a story about a fire sale of the last profitable remnants of a distrusted brand, made without choice to cut losses and pay debts.…

Sean WaltersAugust 29, 2025

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Recruiters, Rivals & the Death Rattle of Desperation

And once again, my hands are tied. This was promised to be a blog with some juicy industry gossip, and it very nearly was. However, after a few conversations yesterday, my editor (I do my own editing) has opted to veto the scoop. The reason: once the dust has settled,…

Sean WaltersAugust 22, 2025

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Oh! See (G) ya later!

Apologies for the terrible word play, but it is early. Last week I alluded to some big and sad recruitment news, but was asked by people I care about not to blog about it just yet. Demonstrating that I do actually have a heart, the dust has now settled allowing…

Sean WaltersAugust 15, 2025

Employment Politics Recruitment

Christchurch recruitment: Death by a thousand cuts

I don't blog about Christchurch much. Odd in some ways given that it's New Zealand's second largest city. In fact, based on the news coverage that the Garden City receives in general, it seems hard to believe that it's almost twice as big (by population) as Wellington. Wellington, being the…

Sean WaltersAugust 1, 2025

Employment Job Boards Politics Sourcing Technology

Drowning in a sea of candidates

Although I could use the data generated by our sophisticated CRM, I, like most recruiters, like to rely on a little thing known as gut-feel. Let's be real, who needs solid, defensible, researched and reasoned information, when we can provide anecdotes, hear-say, speculation, and rumour. If you're an agency leader…

Sean WaltersJuly 25, 2025

I came to rant… but the market wouldn’t shut up

On the record about “off the record”

Stuart Nash…and other irrelevancies

Emergent SOLD! Guess who bought it…

Life after Recruitment, when recruitment is life

The Lynx Effect: The smell of success…or stench of desperation?

Recruiters, Rivals & the Death Rattle of Desperation

Oh! See (G) ya later!

Christchurch recruitment: Death by a thousand cuts

Drowning in a sea of candidates

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