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NZ Budget 2014: Three Key Areas for Recruiters to Consider

It's almost two years to the day that I blogged about the surging Australian economy, their painfully tight labour market, booming agency recruitment desks and snake-charmer enticement of kiwi recruiters to cross the ditch to enjoy recruitment in the promised land. How the tables have turned. Following the Aussie's release…

Jonathan RiceMay 15, 2014

Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Is the Job Boards Bashing Really Justified?

There's been quite a few blog posts generated in the wake of the #IT18NZ conference last week, including one from me, but there is one thing in particular that I'm keen to zero in on this week: Job-Boards Bashing. Given that the majority of speakers represented the hiring efforts of…

Jonathan RiceMay 8, 2014

Recruitment Sourcing

New Zealand’s Digital Recruitment Revolution Kicks Off

I've often bemoaned the short-sighted behaviour of old school recruiters in stubbornly flogging away at print media, misinformed cold calls and command-and-control KPI management. But this week it's time to take a look at those recruiters out there who are pushing the boundaries, dragging recruitment into the digital future and…

Jonathan RiceMarch 27, 2014

Recruitment Sourcing

What One Million kiwis on LinkedIn means for Recruitment

Two press releases this week seem to suggest that we in New Zealand have hit some kind of purple patch in the social networking and social recruiting stakes. In the well-versed role of plucky underdog we so enjoy playing, it's like all our noise and bluster in this area has…

Jonathan RiceNovember 28, 2013

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Just Another Week in #NZRec Recruitment

Noting special really happened this week. Oh hang on... Now some flashbacks are starting to filter through the fug of memory. Goodness. Wow. Really? Oh yeah that and that and that. And that! Actually this week has to have been the most edifying, uplifting and satisfying since I dragged my…

Jonathan RiceOctober 10, 2013

Employment Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Is LinkedIn Losing Its Way?

Hey LinkedIn. What are you up to? You're the professional social network that is supposed to be the future of recruitment... Are you finding it difficult to juggle being the altruistic nirvana for professional networking and a publicly listed corporation monetising and commercialising left, right and centre to to sate your voracious…

Jonathan RiceJuly 25, 2013

Recruitment Sourcing

The LinkedIn LoveIn

This week's Whiteboard ramblings are brought to you by Sean Walters... Speaking with an Internal Recruiter friend of mine the other day, he explained with an excitement usually reserved for craft beer, how he has just actually recruited someone via Facebook. Now I know as social-media savvy recruiters, we’re…

Jonathan RiceJuly 18, 2013

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing

Alternative Uses Of Whitepapers…and launching www.rice.co.nz

Some recruitment companies go about their business development activities by working hard at developing long-lasting relationships with clients, finding problems to solve, devising solutions, offering true value-add services, and eventually forming a trusted partnership status with the client over a longer period of time. Others take a different tack,…

Jonathan RiceJuly 4, 2013

Recruitment Sourcing

7 Random Observations from Sourcing Summit NZ

Hands up if you were at the inaugural Sourcing Summit NZ at the Hilton in Auckland yesterday? Good for you. I hope you had fun, learned lots of stuff, met some people and have an equally fuzzy head as I do this morning. Now I have returned to my recruitment…

Jonathan RiceMay 23, 2013

NZ Budget 2014: Three Key Areas for Recruiters to Consider

Is the Job Boards Bashing Really Justified?

Just Another Week in #NZRec Recruitment

Alternative Uses Of Whitepapers…and launching www.rice.co.nz

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