Agency

The Secret

I think I've finally cracked it. After a mere 18 years in the recruitment industry, I think I've finally figured out what it takes to create a high-performing agency. Why has it taken me 18 years you may ask? Well, it may have taken me longer than some, but I…

Sean WaltersJanuary 20, 2023

Human Resources Politics Recruitment

2023 Predictions: A Timeline

Welcome back folks. Or welcome back some folks. Once again, and moronically, I find myself surprised by how few people are back to work already. This is my 12th January in Aotearoa, and yet each year I think it's going to be different. Call me a curmudgeon, but by the…

Sean WaltersJanuary 13, 2023

Employment Recruitment

Christmas just ain’t the same anymore. Thankfully.

7 years ago, I wouldn't be writing this. Although we are religious in pumping a blog out every Friday, and have been for 12 years, should a Friday coincide with the last day of the year, we'd put up some mildly comedic photoshopped image and be done with it. Writing…

Sean WaltersDecember 23, 2022

Human Resources Recruitment Work

Recruitment Consultant Stereotypes: Which are you?

If you've been about Auckland City this week, you may have seen a sweaty 100kg man flying around on a moped. One minute, sweating under the sun like a paedophile in a playground, and the next, as wet as an otter's pocket. That man was me. Having temporarily taken over…

Sean WaltersDecember 16, 2022

Human Resources Recruitment

Who’d be a Rec to Rec?

I never wanted to work in Rec to Rec. In fact, of all the desks in recruitment, 12 years ago it would have been bottom of my list. It would have been so far down in fact, that I would have told you that I would have been a real…

Sean WaltersDecember 9, 2022

Employment

That’s a Wrap!

Today is my last day at Rice Consulting. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened 😊

Scott BurnettDecember 2, 2022

Recruitment

Candidate Delusion Calculator

I stumbled across something from the desk of a jilted insecure American man this week but, does he have a point? 🤔

Scott BurnettNovember 18, 2022

Employment Human Resources Politics Technology

High Risk – High Reward: The life of an Internal Recruiter

This week's top employment story comes to us by way of Meta, the parent company of Facebook. Following disastrous advertising revenue in a post-Covid world, and heavy investment in creating a virtual world as this one is rubbish, Zuckerberg has had to give the old heave-ho to 11,000 workers globally.…

Sean WaltersNovember 11, 2022

Recruitment

Annual Leave, Do We Need It? 🤔

Less people are taking annual leave. But why? And what impact does that have on employees and employers? 🧐

Scott BurnettOctober 21, 2022

Recruitment Sourcing

“Poaching” isn’t a dirty word. It’s just incorrect.

A recent post from the RCSA was highlighted to me today. Now I'm not one to read these things usually, but given their commendable involvement in dealing with the clowns at MBIE recently, I've taken a bigger interest in our(*) governing body of late (*yours, not mine). The post can…

Sean WaltersOctober 14, 2022