Job Boards

Submission Accomplished

This week I’ve been thinking about submissions. No, not arm bars, rear-naked chokes, or paying a leather-clad escort to urinate on me (although that has crossed my mind). I mean the increasingly common necessity for us recruiters to write stuff telling people how great we are at something in order…

Sean WaltersOctober 17, 2025

Job Boards Recruitment Work

2025 SARA finalists announced. Here’s my picks.

Santa comes but once a year, but when he does he empties his sack. Well here I am folks, ready to empty my sack over this year's SARA nominees. Metaphorically of course. Last year I managed a meagre 1 out of 8. The year before, slightly better with a statistically…

Sean WaltersOctober 10, 2025

Employment Job Boards Politics Sourcing Technology

Drowning in a sea of candidates

Although I could use the data generated by our sophisticated CRM, I, like most recruiters, like to rely on a little thing known as gut-feel. Let's be real, who needs solid, defensible, researched and reasoned information, when we can provide anecdotes, hear-say, speculation, and rumour. If you're an agency leader…

Sean WaltersJuly 25, 2025

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Politics

Onwards and (soon to be) upwards

This week I attended a “breakfast” event kindly hosted by SEEK. Unfortunately, I have to use inverted commas as it was a croissant and coffee affair as opposed to the feast that TradeMe Jobs puts on. Personally, I don’t eat breakfast during the week unless a job board pays for…

Sean WaltersMarch 14, 2025

Job Boards Recruitment Technology

“72% of UK Recruiters use AI…”

...and 90% of what they do with it only serves to p*ss me off. This year, I'm avoiding my usual prediction of what we'll see in 2025. The world is so strange these days that I'm a bit over constantly being way off the mark. Instead, I'm sticking to the…

Sean WaltersJanuary 17, 2025

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment Work

2024: A Year.

I've asked a few recruiters of late how 2024 has been for them, and comments have ranged from "worse than the GFC" to "f*ckin' sh*te mate". Thankfully, it is all but over. SEEK were kind enough to buy me a few beers and some lovely socks this week, and overall…

Sean WaltersDecember 20, 2024

Job Boards Recruitment

2024 SARAs: And the winners are…

As you may know from the number of hungover Recruiters lurching around town this morning, last night was the SARAs. Sadly, there were no punch-ups this year, but it was held in a beautiful venue and the vibe was pretty good. Many people came up to me and complained about…

Sean WaltersNovember 29, 2024

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

The “Candidate Care” Myth

My au pair told me on Wednesday that I should start a podcast where I share my wildly unpopular opinions. I get the sense that this is because she's fed up with hearing them. I told her that I have a blog for this very purpose, however, try as I…

Sean WaltersNovember 1, 2024

Job Boards Recruitment

Why SEEK can never lose

There seems to be a few misconceptions regarding my view of SEEK. It appears that in 2024, you can't criticise their account management, their communication, the scam that is variable pricing, and take the p*ss out of their awards, without being accused of not liking something. For the record, I…

Sean WaltersOctober 25, 2024

Job Boards Uncategorized

2024 SARA finalists announced. Here’s my picks.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just when you think the well of blogging topics has run dry, SEEK go and announce the finalists for this year's SARAs. What has fast become a tradition, and even by request of SEEKs very own Dave Swift, here's my chance to upset everyone…

Sean WaltersOctober 18, 2024