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The Only Advice I Can Offer

My wife is currently pregnant. We don't know if it's a boy or girl or a they, and won't do until the little mite makes an appearance in February. We prefer it that way. Someone asked me the other week what the most important advice I'll impart on my child…
Sean Walters
August 20, 2021
EmploymentHuman ResourcesTechnology

Stop F*cking Lying

LinkedIn isn't what it once was. As a man approaching his 40th birthday, I'm allowed to write stuff like that. It used to be a place where you could see where people were working, drop 'em a message, read the occasional interesting article, and share a hastily-written job ad. These…
Sean Walters
August 6, 2021
EmploymentJob BoardsRecruitment

Sell a Retainer or Retain Your Sanity?

"RETAINED! RETAINED! RETAINED!" If any of the big Recruitment personalities of LinkedIn posted the above, they'd have "likes' into the thousands and comments into the hundreds. Now of course, those commenting would be that unique breed of recruitment sycophant who always comment with "Nail. On. Head. As per usual Greg.…
Sean Walters
July 23, 2021
Employment

“Pro rata” fees and other bad ideas

This is a glorious time to be a recruiter. Yes, I am aware that there are no candidates out there. And there are probably still too many recruitment firms in existence. However, like a boomer Dad with a lawn to mow, we currently have a purpose. Y'see when the pendulum…
Sean Walters
June 25, 2021
EmploymentRecruitment

What if candidates took references?

There’s a lot of nonsensical advice given to job seekers by Recruiters. Actually, scratch that. Recruiters tend to give good advice to job seekers, as their livelihoods are largely dependent on job seekers getting jobs. It’s so-called Thought Leaders that you need to be careful of. These Thought Leaders sometimes…
Sean Walters
April 30, 2021
EmploymentWork

How’s that SEEK boycott working out for ya?

My Dad was a Trade Unionist. As a lifelong "working man", some of my earliest memories were of him on a cold winters morning, wrapping up warm and heading to "work" with vats of my mum's homemade chilli con carne. Except he wasn't actually working on these days. He was…
Sean Walters
April 23, 2021