Technology

The AI-Contra Deal

If you have any sense, then you've probably never heard of Nick Land. If you're wise, you've spent your youth idolising more wholesome people. People like Anthea Turner, Michael Jackson, Mel Gibson, and Steven Seagal. My upbringing, between riding the rails with Pops in the Great Depression, and being forced…

Sean WaltersOctober 2, 2026

Employment Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing Technology

Scraping the recruitment barrel

No doubt it will be news to you that as of the 9th September, recruitment "Job board"/aggregator Jora has ceased trading in New Zealand. This will be news to you because Jora was so inconsequential that many of you will never have heard of it. And I'm certain none of…

Sean WaltersSeptember 25, 2026

Employment Recruitment Sourcing Technology

It’s not clever. It’s AI.

Politics last week, AI today. Yes, I can hear your collective groans already. All you need is Consult, Robert Walters, and something wildly inappropriate and you'd be shouting "BINGO!". Unfortunately, it's an election year and it's 2026, so both topics are painfully unavoidable. And whether you like it or not,…

Sean WaltersAugust 21, 2026

Employment Politics Recruitment Technology

The Fijian art of work creation

If you've lived in New Zealand for any amount of time, you'll have a favourite Pacific island to visit. You'll swear blind to anyone who'll listen that your place is "the place". For my family, the place is Fiji. Specifically, the Yasawa Islands. More specifically (and I really want to…

Sean WaltersMay 29, 2026

Employment Recruitment Technology Work

Down the River: The Fall of Hudson Australia

This blog was hard to write. Not because I have a particular affinity with any global recruitment brand, but because I have a new laptop and have forgotten all my passwords, including the one for WordPress where these things are crafted. More on this later. The plight of the global…

Sean WaltersMay 1, 2026

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Technology

Accordant Group needs $5m (but don’t we all?)

I've been following a story which has perhaps slipped under the radar of most recruiters. Not because I'm any smarter than the rest of you, I just have to churn out a blog every Friday as part of my pact with Beelzebub. For those of you who have an irrational…

Sean WaltersApril 17, 2026

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing Technology Work

The AI Headf*ck

And we’re back on AI. Sorry everyone, but this was prompted by a couple of things. Firstly, there was this article here. If you can’t be bothered reading it, and I wouldn’t blame you, it’s the usual disgruntled-candidate-rejected-by-computer click bait. To summarise more accurately, a mum is annoyed that her…

Sean WaltersMarch 27, 2026

Politics Recruitment Technology

Proofreaders, Prodigies, and the AI Panic

As if I wasn’t predictable enough, a blog criticising the RCSA is followed by a blog about AI. One about All of Government and another taking the p*ss out of Consult will make it a full-house. However, short of a seriously lame post comparing “your next hire” with an Olympic…

Sean WaltersFebruary 20, 2026

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Technology

What SHOULD get you banned from LinkedIn

Getting banned from LinkedIn is easy enough. Trust me. All you have to do is write a few sharp blogs, tag a few people, and “enjoy” the cut’n’thrust of a comments section. Mostly, you’ll get banned for (as far as I’m concerned) no biggie. Such is life. In my strange…

Sean WaltersDecember 12, 2025

Recruitment Technology Uncategorized

Recruiters, we all know it’s ChatGPT

I’ve been banging on a lot about AI recently. Once a sceptic, I am now firmly convinced that AI will change our (and every other) industry more than anything else has in the past 30 years. Hell, this could be as big as the industrial revolution. I kid you not.…

Sean WaltersOctober 31, 2025