Agency

Should a Recruiter Run a Recruitment Firm?

These days, we're meant to have LinkedIn headlines like "Obsessive about leadership and what makes humans tick". It's so common that we barely notice it. Well most don't, but for some annoying reason, I do. I find myself riding to work. Or taking a dump. Or speaking with someone I…

Sean WaltersOctober 23, 2026

Employment Recruitment

How to retire at 50

You never see an old man eating a Twix. Similarly, you won't see them recruiting business support roles either. Are these things connected? Well, probably not, but with my birthday rapidly approaching, and the as-yet-unblogged-about story of Jason Cherrington's "retirement", let's take a look at growing old disgracefully in recruitment.…

Sean WaltersOctober 16, 2026

Employment Politics Recruitment

Aren’t we waiting ’till after the election??

Is it just me struggling to get excited about this election? Typically, rightly or wrongly, I love a bit of politics. Maybe it was my upbringing in the gulags. Maybe it's my love of argument, insult, and division. Or maybe it's because I'm so community spirited (I have never met…

Sean WaltersOctober 9, 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 Human Resources Recruitment

Rejected in Five Seconds (You’re Welcome)

How long does it take you to reject a CV? Answer truthfully. And I'm not asking about the "maybe" pile. I mean the CV that you won't be progressing. The CV that does not require further consideration. I'll go first. If it were to take me 5 seconds, I'd be…

Sean WaltersSeptember 11, 2026

Employment Recruitment Work

Cr@p Recruitment Firms: We Need More of ’em

Do you know what I miss? White dog sh*t and smoking on aeroplanes. Do you know what else? Really crap recruitment firms. This seemingly nonsensical statement isn't just designed to gain clicks in a world where only clicks matter. There's some reasoning behind my madness. But first, let's kill some…

Sean WaltersSeptember 4, 2026

Employment Recruitment Work

No Win, No Fee, No Point

Some things you know to be true, but that doesn't mean they've truly dawned on you. No man ever thinks his wife is going to leave him no matter how many times she threatens, until she runs off with the landscape gardener. 5 more minutes until bed isn't actually 5…

Sean WaltersAugust 28, 2026

Employment Politics Recruitment

How to secure 171,000 jobs

I should probably be writing a blog about unemployment reaching an 11 year high. I should, but I won't. A few reasons for this; firstly, it's an inherently boring, complicated, and misunderstood statistic, and I don't have the energy to dissect or understand it myself. Secondly, everyone else, thanks to…

Sean WaltersAugust 7, 2026

Employment Recruitment Sourcing Work

Where have all the recruiters gone?

I quite like a bit of folk music. Well, to be clear, I like all music. Country AND western. I was tie-dying some curtains and smoking a reefer last night to Peter, Paul and Mary's "Where have all the flowers gone", thinking about Vietnam, civil rights, and excessive body hair,…

Sean WaltersJuly 31, 2026

Employment Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

$911 Million Problems (and a Job Ad Ain’t One)

I read an article a few weeks ago on RNZ. I've only recently started reading RNZ articles after National cut their funding, working on the basis that if National don't like them, they must be good for society. This one was a puff piece of marketing dressed up as journalism…

Sean WaltersJuly 24, 2026