Employment

How to secure 171,000 jobs

I should probably be writing a blog about unemployment reaching an 11 year high. I should, but I won't. A few reasons for this; firstly, it's an inherently boring, complicated, and misunderstood statistic, and I don't have the energy to dissect or understand it myself. Secondly, everyone else, thanks to…

Sean WaltersAugust 7, 2026

Employment Recruitment Sourcing Work

Where have all the recruiters gone?

I quite like a bit of folk music. Well, to be clear, I like all music. Country AND western. I was tie-dying some curtains and smoking a reefer last night to Peter, Paul and Mary's "Where have all the flowers gone", thinking about Vietnam, civil rights, and excessive body hair,…

Sean WaltersJuly 31, 2026

Employment Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

$911 Million Problems (and a Job Ad Ain’t One)

I read an article a few weeks ago on RNZ. I've only recently started reading RNZ articles after National cut their funding, working on the basis that if National don't like them, they must be good for society. This one was a puff piece of marketing dressed up as journalism…

Sean WaltersJuly 24, 2026

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Work

Exit Wounds

I'm back! Due to shoulder surgery, I'm typing this blog one-handed; a skill I thankfully developed going through puberty in the early days of dial-up internet, so please excuse the brevity. Yes, I know it's not even been three weeks, but when you write a blog every week (without fail…

Sean WaltersJuly 17, 2026

Employment Recruitment

Hays: Ten Before Ten (and Seven Before Twenty-Seven)

Good morning world. Today sees me in Newcastle. No, not the birth place of Sting, Bryan Ferry, Gazza, and domestic violence - the other Newcastle. What brings me here is a story too long to explain within this world count, however, fate has placed me with three middle-aged recruiters who…

Sean WaltersJune 26, 2026

Employment Recruitment Work

RCSA Awards Finalists Announced – Hello?? Is anybody there??

This blog was meant to go out last week, but was pushed down the list by recruitment's answer to Carmen Sandiego. With a slow news week, we're back to writing a blog that, if I'm honest, pains me. With two recruitment awards a year in NZ, and each requiring a "prediction"…

Sean WaltersJune 19, 2026

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

One in, One out

These blogs tend to go through phases. A few months writing about "All of Government". A few bemoaning the RCSA. A month or two of trite comedy pieces. Currently, I'm on a global recruitment buzz. This is of course good news if you don't work at a global recruitment firm…

Sean WaltersJune 12, 2026

Employment Politics Recruitment Work

New Hudson Vacancy: Person to switch off the lights

I might have a very big blog coming your way about a global recruitment firm which may have a similar name to me, but that will have to wait. Like lamb shanks, Guinness, and used panties, some blogs need just a little longer to simmer, settle, and ripen. Until then,…

Sean WaltersJune 5, 2026

Employment Politics Recruitment Technology

The Fijian art of work creation

If you've lived in New Zealand for any amount of time, you'll have a favourite Pacific island to visit. You'll swear blind to anyone who'll listen that your place is "the place". For my family, the place is Fiji. Specifically, the Yasawa Islands. More specifically (and I really want to…

Sean WaltersMay 29, 2026

Employment Human Resources Politics

Wellington?? Really?? Again???

And here we are again. Well here you are, I'm actually in Fiji, but regardless; the government announced this week that it's cutting nearly 9,000 public sector jobs over the next three years. Finance Minister Nicola Willis framed it as a modernisation story: fewer silos, more AI, $2.4 billion in…

Sean WaltersMay 22, 2026