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Sourcing Summit Special Offer

This week we have an awesome special offer for all of you cool, savvy and switched-on Whiteboard readers. The company that brought the much talked about RHUB to New Zealand last year are bringing the first ever Sourcing Summit #SOSUNZ to Auckland in just a couple of weeks' time and…

Jonathan RiceMay 2, 2013

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Positive Discrimination: Positively Good for Business

Due to your usual blogger currently schmoozing his way around Christchurch, blogging responsibility has again fallen to me for another week. Please note that there was no mention of this in my original position description. My twitter feed this week as been alive with talk of gender equality, with BNZ…

Jonathan RiceMarch 21, 2013

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Telecom Axe Recruitment Team

In our business the past six months or so has been typified by an ever increasing surge of interest from agency recruiters in defecting transitioning across to the parallel universe of internal corporate recruitment. I say "parallel" because, whilst many believe internal recruitment to be a cosy utopia of no sales calls, KPI's or stress,…

Jonathan RiceFebruary 21, 2013

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

The Uncertain Future for Recruitment Agencies

I've had a number of reasons to ponder the future of recruitment this week, particularly on the agency side, and it's been a week of incredible conflicts. This time of year is always a time for introspection, as things wind down a bit towards Christmas, and the general sense I…

Jonathan RiceNovember 8, 2012

Human Resources Recruitment

Leaked Document Reveals the AOG Recruitment Panel

I've spent a bit of time in Wellington this week and it has been quite a bizarre trip. Yesterday morning I checked out of my hotel room at "Ohtel" and took advantage of their breakfast buffet before heading out. To my surprise I found myself sharing a breakfast table with…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 20, 2012

Human Resources Recruitment

New Zealand is LinkedIn’s Lab Rat

Many of you will by now have noticed that LinkedIn have added a snappy new "Endorsements" functionality to the Skills & Expertise section of your Profile Page. What you may not have been aware of is that they are actually using New Zealand to trial the new function so we are…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 13, 2012

Human Resources Recruitment

Cheating Olympians; Cheating Recruiters

This week got off to a pretty eventful start for New Zealand's shot put silver medallist Valerie Adams when she was informed that the woman person she had lost her Olympic crown to, Nadzeya Ostapchuk, had tested positive for anabolic steroid metenolone. Joy and relief all round, as the news delivered…

Jonathan RiceAugust 16, 2012

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Olympics Security Shambles Reveals the Fallacy of “Talent Pooling”

As Sir Alex Ferguson might say, it's "sqweaky bum time" in the New Zealand recruitment agency world as firms of all shapes and sizes await the MED Procurement team's decision of who to award panel places on the all of Government recruitment contract. Meanwhile, on the other side of the…

Jonathan RiceJuly 19, 2012

Human Resources Recruitment

Top Three Recruitment Myths that are…Utter Bollocks

I was going to write a post this week that followed up on last week's runaway train blog on the All of Government e-tender. An obvious topic to cover would have been to put to the floor the vigorous debate that has sprung up around price versus quality in recruitment…

Jonathan RiceJuly 12, 2012

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

All-of-Government Recruitment a Bitter Pill to Swallow

There will be some sore heads in Wellington this morning. Some perhaps from the collective palm-meets-forehead moments when recruitment managers and sales managers saw how low the bidding was going for the privilege of recruiting for All-of-Government. But mostly from the boozy wake that must surely have been held to…

Jonathan RiceJuly 5, 2012

Sourcing Summit Special Offer

Positive Discrimination: Positively Good for Business

Telecom Axe Recruitment Team

The Uncertain Future for Recruitment Agencies

Leaked Document Reveals the AOG Recruitment Panel

Cheating Olympians; Cheating Recruiters

Olympics Security Shambles Reveals the Fallacy of “Talent Pooling”

Top Three Recruitment Myths that are…Utter Bollocks

All-of-Government Recruitment a Bitter Pill to Swallow

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