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Contractor Recruitment Firms Ambushed By IRD

I'm afraid this isn't going to be the most entertaining or titillating of Whiteboard blog posts but it's about something of great importance to our New Zealand recruitment industry, so I feel if pretty much behooves me to talk about it today. In particular if you are a Contractor specialist…
Jonathan Rice
March 16, 2017
Recruitment

Handling the Triumph and Disaster of Recruitment

For many New Zealand recruitment companies (and most UK ones too) March marks the end of the financial year. It's a time of high stress for all involved. In a financial results driven industry like ours, we are in the final few days' countdown to making those last ditch placements…
Jonathan Rice
March 9, 2017
Recruitment

Old School Recruiter Control

When I started out in recruitment in the middle of last decade I was lucky enough to receive some pretty good training from a company renowned for developing and growing fledgling recruiters. Many of those learnings have stuck with me over the years but one aspect in particular shines with the greatest…
Jonathan Rice
March 2, 2017
Recruitment

Beware Recruiters! The Robots Are Coming!

Or not, depending on your particular point of view. Or more realistically, depending on how many clicks you are trying to get on your article. Or how many eyeballs you're trying to direct to your snazzy new bauble that will supposedly disrupt us recruiters and the recruitment industry. Again. I've…
Jonathan Rice
November 24, 2016
EmploymentRecruitment

Vend Recruiters Designing the Art of Rejection

The differences between agency and in-house recruitment are well documented.  Age old fables like in-house recruiters hating sales, not "cutting it" in agency land, or being more admin focused have rubbed shoulders in recent years with more progressive ideas of recruiters preferring a broader strategic approach versus those with a…
Jonathan Rice
October 13, 2016
Recruitment

It’s The Size That Counts

Well that's how it seems over here in the UK recruitment industry anyway. After three weeks immersed into the London recruitment scene and many recruiter conversations over coffees, teas, beers (and one dangerously purple beetroot juice), the sheer scale of the UK recruitment market seems to feature in every encounter.…
Jonathan Rice
September 8, 2016
Recruitment

Trust Me, I’m A Recruiter

Quick one from me today as I'm more snowed under than the South Island.  I enjoyed an article shared by SEEK yesterday about Trust in the Workplace and the startling statistic that 83% of kiwis did not trust all of their colleagues.  It got me thinking about the recruitment industry…
Jonathan Rice
August 4, 2016