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Employment Human Resources Recruitment

I’m Leaving!!

No, not me. You can mop your tea/coffee up from the premature spitting out in shock. What I wanted to explore in this edition of The Whiteboard is one of the more frequently asked questions that I get from clients and also a question that has helped my understanding of…

Scott BurnettSeptember 20, 2018

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Politics Recruitment

R&R In Rec

Good morning! Or is it afternoon? Is it September here?? Forgive me if the blog has a somewhat improvisational tone today but I arrived back in the land of the long white cloud at 6 am yesterday, you know your brains not at the races when you refer to the…

Scott BurnettAugust 30, 2018

Employment Recruitment

A Place For Everyone

This week saw me down in Christchurch. As I ubered through what remains of the city, I was reminded that Christchurch was actually my entry point and introduction to New Zealand. Fresh off a plane from Fiji and following a coin-toss at Auckland Airport in 2010, it was decided that…

Sean WaltersJuly 26, 2018

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Worldly Advice Cup

Can you believe you have to scroll back to the beginning of February to get even a mention of football!? I feel I’ve let down the readership who gave me my first break and like Arctic Monkeys new album I’ve alienated the day one followers who liked the simple sub-cultural…

Scott BurnettJuly 19, 2018

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Waging War on the Living Wage

Google estimates that “quite a lot of blogs” exist online. This is my first time, and the only relevant experience I have is a diary entry about my first time and a letter I wrote to my Grandad when I was 9 announcing “Dad just bought an electronic type writer”.…

Sean WaltersJuly 12, 2018

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Monday Bloody Monday

We are all creatures of habit; get up, work, sleep, repeat. We feel more at ease when we have a plan and structure in place something that gives us a sense of not only purpose but accomplishment. The ascendancy of my career in recruitment was rife with structure; core hours,…

Scott BurnettJune 28, 2018

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

An old’un, but a good’un

Last weekend I was lucky enough to catch the fantastic Gallipoli Exhibition at Te Papa. It’s with a degree of arrogance that I say I come from a country with some of the best museums in the world, but this exhibition, with the assistance of Weta Workshop, ranks up there…

Sean WaltersJune 21, 2018

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

Employment Recruitment

Art Imitating Life – Sales Films

For those who may not know, other than my love first love: recruitment, I am an avid film buff. Cannes Film Festival is in full swing and will be concluding on Saturday and we, the non-celebrities, get to glimpse at a smorgasbord of new releases. Spike Lee is teaming up…

Scott BurnettMay 17, 2018

I’m Leaving!!

R&R In Rec

A Place For Everyone

Worldly Advice Cup

Waging War on the Living Wage

Monday Bloody Monday

An old’un, but a good’un

Square Peg Round Hole

Art Imitating Life – Sales Films

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