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Happy Easter from The Whiteboard

The Whiteboard has wheeled off up North for its Easter hols, hoping the permanent marker can withstand the rainy holiday weather.  Have a good break everyone, safe travels, and see you again the other side of ANZAC Day.   Happy Easter from "all of us" at www.rice.co.nz and www.joyn.co.nz  
Jonathan Rice
April 17, 2014
Recruitment

The LinkedIn Propaganda Machine Hits Auckland

Hey LinkedIn, thanks for the beers and networking opportunities on Wednesday night here in Auckland.  It was really cool that you threw a party to commemorate your attainment of the quite staggering landmark of 1 Million users here is New Zealand (for a country of just 4 million I think…
Jonathan Rice
March 20, 2014
Recruitment

Face It, Companies Do Not Want to Use Recruitment Agencies

Have agency recruiters forgotten how to recruit?  And by "recruit" I'm talking about the full cycle of prospecting, building relationships, understanding a client, gathering market intelligence and then making approaches to suitable candidates. Or did most of us never know how to really do that properly and just sailed through…
Jonathan Rice
March 13, 2014
Recruitment

Robert Half’s Utopian Recruitment Bubble

A couple of weeks ago a video from Customise Consulting caused a bit of a stir on this blog with its amusingly provocative jabs towards the traditional, corporate, recruitment agency model.  This week I came across another video about being a recruitment consultant, but this one is actually from one…
Jonathan Rice
February 20, 2014