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Employment Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing

Square Peg Round Hole

There are certain catchphrases we hear on a daily basis in recruitment; work hard play hard, champagne and razorblades, fake it till you make it. A time-honored line that usually gets used in the process of feedback is “square peg round hole” which when you break it down refers to…

Scott BurnettJune 7, 2018

Employment Recruitment Sourcing

A Story of Two Cars

Imagine just for a moment that you were buying a new car. Actually, no. Not a new car. A nearly new car. You know that there are many options on how to go about purchasing a motor vehicle. Your next door neighbour, who I shall call for the purpose of…

Sean WaltersMay 31, 2018

Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

The Silent Treatment

As a recruiter, I love April. We bid farewell to the last financial year, and steam into 2018/19 with all guns blazing. For our business, it also coincides with our end of year sales meeting, team performance reviews, and some big picture thinking and planning for the year ahead. All…

Sean WaltersApril 19, 2018

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing

What the Font?

It’s no secret that job-hunting is a tough process. If I had a dollar for every time somebody sighed to me, “Finding a new job is a job in itself” I’d have at least an extra $4 per week. How best to make your application stand out, without coming off…

Natasha FosterApril 13, 2018

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Be Nice To Your Recruiter

This week, in a moment of sheer frustration I sat at my desk and began penning a poem ‘Today, I hate recruitment.’ Riddled with truisms about clients who engage with all guns blazing then never call back, sourcing woes and candidate behaviour that verges on harassment, it was an angst-ridden…

Natasha FosterMarch 1, 2018

Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

My Name is Not Natalie

I was born on the 24th of March 1988, christened Natasha Maria Foster and for the next 25 years largely called by that name, or some close variation of. Then I started working in recruitment and suddenly, inexplicably, my name became Natalie. It is still one of my favourite things,…

Natasha FosterFebruary 8, 2018

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing Uncategorized

The Last Post

Der derrrrr...der derrrrr...der der da da da da da da da daaaaaaaaa. Yes it's the last post. The Last Post. The last Whiteboard blog post of 2017 and also the last time you'll be hearing from me on a regular weekly basis on this here blogging forum. The Whiteboard will…

Jonathan RiceDecember 7, 2017

Employment Recruitment Sourcing

The Curse of Being Too Good

I'm currently reading a biography of the former Heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston. One of thirteen children of a dirt-poor sharecropping family born amidst the Great Depression, Liston didn't have the easiest of starts on this planet. Although slavery had been abolished 50 years prior to his arrival, little had…

Sean WaltersOctober 12, 2017

Recruitment Sourcing

Social Recruitment Is Losing Its Way

Thanks to everyone who attended the RicePowWow last night, it was a great evening. The talk from Jacqui Wall from Umbrella on building resilience in recruitment is certainly coming in handy with the somewhat fragile nature of me and my team this morning. One comment made last night, out of the…

Jonathan RiceMarch 30, 2017

Sourcing Uncategorized

Sourcing Eggs

No Whiteboard blog this week for it is Good Friday, as I'm sure you well know. I'll be busy hiding eggs and such forth so from me and all of us at Rice Consulting, Happy Easter. Now go put your finely honed sourcing skills to good use and go…

Jonathan RiceMarch 24, 2016