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The Trade Me Jobs Double-Wammy

Is Trade Me Jobs, the self-styled “#1 job board in New Zealand”, having its cake…and eating it?  Certainly that’s the opinion of Absolute IT  Director Grant Burley. I spoke with Grant earlier this week and he expressed grave concerns at Trade Me Jobs’ practice of placing adverts inside the body…
Jonathan Rice
December 2, 2010
Recruitment

Who’s Got The Best Christmas Party This Year?

Good morning everyone and it’s a bright and breezy one today as I’m off to Greg Savage’s RCSA brekkie seminar in Auckland this morning.  Perhaps I will have already met many of you readers by the time you read this, who knows?  If you did then lucky you as today…
Jonathan Rice
November 11, 2010
Recruitment

Hudson harness Linked In to put themselves about town

  OK let’s see a show of hands.  Who out there received an “approach” from Hudson this week? No?  Not you? Well either you aren’t a recruiter currently operating in New Zealand or Australia, or you haven’t adequately described and categorized yourself on your Linked In profile (I know there…
Jonathan Rice
September 23, 2010
Recruitment

Fraudulent CV Saga starts to lack Momentum

  Ali Dia arrived at English Premier League Southampton back in November 1996.  He had been signed by the then manager, Graeme Souness, purely on the basis of some hazy video footage and a phone call, purportedly from World Footballer of the Year George Weah, claiming to be the cousin…
Jonathan Rice
September 16, 2010
Recruitment

Movers and Shakers – Recruiting in Christchurch

  To those recruiting in Christchurch, we salute you… When the earthquake rumbled up from 10km under the Canterbury plains last Saturday morning the lives of many New Zealanders were thrown into disarray and panic.  But what has followed in the days since seems to be far, far worse.  As…
Jonathan Rice
September 9, 2010