Employment

Tough times creating bad candidate experiences

Have you ever noticed how high demand affects the quality of customer service we experience? If you've ever found yourself shopping on Oxford Street in London at Christmas time, you'll see this. Chubby, sallow-skinned English women wrestling Zara tops from each other to then be treated like cattle by equally…

Sean WaltersJuly 19, 2024

Employment Politics Recruitment

Things can only get (worse before they get) better

I've become a real doom-monger of late. And of all the "mongers" to be, doom are probably the worst. They're certainly the least fun at parties. However, writing New Zealand's third best recruitment blog in 2024 has sealed my fate. My Thursday evenings are spent trying to dig up a…

Sean WaltersJuly 12, 2024

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

MBIE: Procurement, with all the charm of gum disease

Birthdays are a special time. A time to reflect on progress and achievements. A time to look to the future with renewed optimism. No matter what you've gone through, a birthday marks the start of a new year. And "new year" can mean "new you". And so it is as…

Sean WaltersJuly 5, 2024

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

The RCSA Awards: And the winners are…

My word is it that time of year again? Regular readers will know that I typically scrape two blogs apiece from our two recruitment industry awards here in Aotearoa - one to make a prediction, and one to name the winners and demonstrate how little I know. My trip to…

Sean WaltersJune 14, 2024

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

The echoes of AoG: Pushing Wellington Recruiters to their limit…and beyond

It pains me to report that life for recruiters in our capital is set to get worse before it gets any better. This week, it was bought to my attention that not content in forcing recruiters to work to the dismal rates of the new(ish) AoG contract, a number of…

Sean WaltersMay 17, 2024

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Recruiters and their handcuffs

We're all mature enough to admit that sometimes nothing beats being handcuffed to a bedpost and spanked by a friend, colleague, or loved one. Not all handcuffs provide stressed-out recruiters with kinky relief however. Some bind us to doing jobs we really don't want to be doing. Actually, it's not…

Sean WaltersMay 10, 2024

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

The dreaded “handover”

If you've worked in the recruitment industry for any length of the time, you would have been a player in the following scene: A recruiter or recruitment manager contacts a client to say that they or a staff member are "moving on". The recruiter or recruitment manager requests a meeting…

Sean WaltersApril 26, 2024

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

What to do if you’ve lied to a Recruitment Consultant

I'm currently being lied to by a candidate. If they know I know they're lying, I don't know, but I suspect they do. Or maybe they don't and are living in hope that I am stupid. For now I'm happy to be perceived as stupid as I'm enjoying watching this…

Sean WaltersApril 19, 2024

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Never say never again. Unless you’re a recruiter

I, like Jesus, have been thinking on the topic of forgiveness. As recruiters, we operate in a world where we expect a fair amount of forgiveness aimed our way. Running a busy desk makes us slow to respond. And sometimes we plainly forget. We now also live in a world…

Sean WaltersApril 12, 2024

Employment Recruitment Uncategorized

How to future-proof your recruitment career

If we exclude the actions of global recruitment firms, which I typically do, the last 12 months have been the most tumultuous I've witnessed in my 13 years in the New Zealand recruitment industry. Even during Covid, most of us retained our jobs. Sure we took pay cuts, didn't shower,…

Sean WaltersApril 5, 2024

Tough times creating bad candidate experiences

Things can only get (worse before they get) better

MBIE: Procurement, with all the charm of gum disease

The RCSA Awards: And the winners are…

The echoes of AoG: Pushing Wellington Recruiters to their limit…and beyond

Recruiters and their handcuffs

The dreaded “handover”

What to do if you’ve lied to a Recruitment Consultant

Never say never again. Unless you’re a recruiter

How to future-proof your recruitment career

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