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The Curse of Being Too Good

I'm currently reading a biography of the former Heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston. One of thirteen children of a dirt-poor sharecropping family born amidst the Great Depression, Liston didn't have the easiest of starts on this planet. Although slavery had been abolished 50 years prior to his arrival, little had…
Sean Walters
October 12, 2017
EmploymentHuman ResourcesPoliticsRecruitment

The Hunger Game

Either I'm losing my touch, or Recruitment is getting harder. Once upon a time, I'd take a job brief, perform a quick search on the mobile database between my ears, and call an invariably keen candidate, all before I made it back to the office. A few cogs would turn,…
Sean Walters
September 28, 2017
EmploymentRecruitment

Have Recruiter Salaries Stagnated?

Hello recruiters of New Zealand and welcome to Spring - yussss.  Welcome, also, to the world's 79th most popular recruitment blog. Oh yeah, you heard right. Did you watch the Leaders Debate last night? I'm not a particularly political person but I'm pretty sure that must have been the most…
Jonathan Rice
August 31, 2017
EmploymentUncategorized

A Week of Winners and Losers

Quick one from me this week as I'm off on me 'olidays after today (as I'm sure many other recruiters with kids are also planning on doing too!)  For the rest of you, enjoy the free flowing traffic for a couple of weeks and try not to get too frustrated…
Jonathan Rice
July 6, 2017
EmploymentRecruitment

Dealing With A Racist Recruiter

This is what she said, "I can tell you, I've been in recruitment all my life, if I saw your CV come across the table it would go straight back down in the rubbish bin," She followed this up with, "There's hundreds of Kiwis out there - there's hundreds of…
Jonathan Rice
June 22, 2017