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The Company We Keep

The recent US election result proves to us that the world is a truly terrible place. However, given the 2024 most of us have had, we didn’t need an election to highlight this. I was speaking to a recruitment GM this week who felt that October was our lowest point,…
Sean Walters
November 8, 2024
Human ResourcesRecruitmentTechnology

Dynamic pricing in Recruitment

Unfortunately, I'm a British male born between 1977 and 1984. This means that like a moth to a naked flame, last Saturday afflicted me with the irresistible compulsion to try and buy tickets for the Oasis reunion. Me, and 20 million other equally ridiculous people all simultaneously trying to purchase…
Sean Walters
September 6, 2024
EmploymentHuman ResourcesRecruitment

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 Walters
May 10, 2024
Human ResourcesRecruitment

Who killed Internal Recruitment?

It's been a week here at Rice & Co. Claudia is attacking the agency rec to rec desk like a woman possessed. We made a big placement which will set tongues a-waggin' across the industry. And I received a call that vindicates the many hours I spend writing opinionated nonsense…
Sean Walters
May 3, 2024
EmploymentHuman ResourcesRecruitment

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 Walters
April 26, 2024