Recruitment

Ten Tips to Survive Your Recruitment Christmas Party

Silly season is well and truly upon us and today, being the first Friday in December, will doubtless herald the launching of several Christmas work functions to come. Recruiters can often be partial to throwing the odd alcohol-fueled shindig and, being the excitable larakins many of us are, these occasions can…

Jonathan RiceDecember 6, 2012

Recruitment

Throwing Sh*t at a Wall and calling it Recruitment

What is recruitment? There are many different answers to this question but for us in the agency recruitment world, it is essentially the act of representing a client's business and filling a vacancy by marketing their employment opportunity to the jobseeker market. Of course, this has greatly evolved over the years…

Jonathan RiceNovember 29, 2012

Employment Recruitment

Recruitment Black Holes and Revelations

If you've been in recruitment long enough you will no doubt be tired by now of hearing about our "terrible reputation" for feedback, follow up, returning calls...for adequately communicating. Surprising accusation of an industry that really exists to network, build relationships and make matches through various communication channels. Witness the…

Jonathan RiceNovember 22, 2012

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

Facebook Leaps into LinkedIn’s Recruiting Sandpit

At the recent Recruiter's HUB conference here in Auckland, Paul Jacobs delivered an afternoon session where everyone had to clump together into groups depending on which social media platform they believed held the future for effective sourcing and recruitment. The largest group, predictably, was the sharp-suited LinkedIn gathering, gazing upon…

Jonathan RiceNovember 15, 2012

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

Recruitment

Counting Job Ads Is No Economic Barometer

So apparently the unemployment rate in New Zealand is going to creep up towards the 7% mark over the next 6 months. That's the assertion made by The Herald recently anyway, in its reporting of the ANZ September job ad statistics which revealed that job ads had fallen to their…

Jonathan RiceNovember 1, 2012

Employment Recruitment

Would You Recruit a “Potential Parent”?

The debate over the proposal to extend paid parental leave in New Zealand took an interesting turn this week, with the effect it could have on job seeking and recruitment. Labour MP Sue Moroney is campaigning to have it extended from 14 to 26 weeks and this has elicited a response…

Jonathan RiceOctober 25, 2012

Employment Recruitment

#RHUBNZ – A Glimpse at Recruitment’s Future

Over the past two days the Recruiter's Hub roadshow rolled into Auckland and I must say I have been blown away by the whole event. Having attended these in Australia I was keen to see if we could put on a similar kind of show in New Zealand. By the end of the…

Jonathan RiceOctober 18, 2012

Recruitment

Essential Stats from the Recruitment Industry Benchmarking Report

I was going to write this post a couple of weeks ago after attending an RCSA breakfast seminar in Auckland but some more pressing issues arose. The seminar was a presentation from Nigel Harse who runs the RIB Report comparing year on year key performance results for recruitment firms and it…

Jonathan RiceOctober 11, 2012

Employment Recruitment

Moving On…and Ten Tips to Develop a Winning Recruitment Culture

So the All-of-Government panel for recruitment services was officially announced this week. Well done to the 44 firms who made the panel and my apologies to Mana Recruitment and Careering Options who were missed off the leaked document from a couple of weeks ago. It's an interesting quote from Steven…

Jonathan RiceOctober 4, 2012

Recruitment

Throwing Sh*t at a Wall and calling it Recruitment

Recruitment Black Holes and Revelations

The Uncertain Future for Recruitment Agencies

Counting Job Ads Is No Economic Barometer

Would You Recruit a “Potential Parent”?

Essential Stats from the Recruitment Industry Benchmarking Report

Moving On…and Ten Tips to Develop a Winning Recruitment Culture

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