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Resigned Acceptance

Last week Groupon's co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason was fired by the board who are seeking some fresh input to resurrect a wobbly share price.  The toppled entrepreneur took it with good grace (admittedly easier to do with a hefty severance payment and continued 7.1% shareholding) and publicly posted a quirky and irreverent…
Jonathan Rice
March 7, 2013
EmploymentRecruitment

The Finely Balanced Issue of Remote Recruiting

Recruitment is one industry that technology has influenced more than many others.  The process was sped up with e-mails, the advertising of jobs amplified by online job boards, and nowadays we have smart phones, tablets, cloud-based CRM systems and Skype interviewing enabling us to recruit on the move, from anywhere, with instant…
Jonathan Rice
February 28, 2013
EmploymentHuman ResourcesRecruitment

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 Rice
February 21, 2013
Recruitment

Recruiters – Yes We Can

This week I'm delighted to announce a new Director at Rice Consulting and virtualRPO as Sean Walters makes the step up.  And so it is with great pleasure I hand over the Whiteboard marker pen to Sean to bring to you this week's guest blog post, and I'll be back causing…
Jonathan Rice
February 14, 2013
Recruitment

Always Be Recruiting

When I left the UK and entered the Sydney recruitment market Hays, my new employer, were kind enough to put me up in their Mosman company apartment for the first couple of weeks.  My most enduring memory from that time, apart from the gorgeous sunrises reflecting on the CBD's glass towers…
Jonathan Rice
February 7, 2013
Recruitment

Recruitment Rollercoaster: 2012 in Review

What a year.  Recruitment is always a rollercoaster but I nearly lost my lunch a few times in 2012 with the amount of ups and downs experienced.  We are all in incredibly interesting, fast-changing, ever-shifting times in recruitment these days and it can be hard to keep up.  For many…
Jonathan Rice
December 20, 2012
Recruitment

A Medley of Recruitment Mischief and Good Times

Hello and welcome to the penultimate Whiteboard blog of 2012.  Bit of a quick one today as I'm guessing most of you are, like me, preparing for a busy day of festive cheer and general japery.  Happy to say that we are busy on the work front too, a sentiment mirrored by…
Jonathan Rice
December 13, 2012