Agency

Employment Recruitment

#RHUBNZ – A Glimpse at Recruitment’s Future

Over the past two days the Recruiter's Hub roadshow rolled into Auckland and I must say I have been blown away by the whole event. Having attended these in Australia I was keen to see if we could put on a similar kind of show in New Zealand. By the end of the…

Jonathan RiceOctober 18, 2012

Employment Recruitment

Moving On…and Ten Tips to Develop a Winning Recruitment Culture

So the All-of-Government panel for recruitment services was officially announced this week. Well done to the 44 firms who made the panel and my apologies to Mana Recruitment and Careering Options who were missed off the leaked document from a couple of weeks ago. It's an interesting quote from Steven…

Jonathan RiceOctober 4, 2012

Recruitment

Sir Graham Henry Embraces Recruitment

Those of you browsing these pages this week for updates, commentary and salacious gossip around the awarding of the All-of-Government recruitment contract will be sorely disappointed. Surely you are all aware that the MBIE "would just like to remind you of the continued requirement as to confidentiality and commercial sensitivity…

Jonathan RiceAugust 30, 2012

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

All-of-Government Recruitment a Bitter Pill to Swallow

There will be some sore heads in Wellington this morning. Some perhaps from the collective palm-meets-forehead moments when recruitment managers and sales managers saw how low the bidding was going for the privilege of recruiting for All-of-Government. But mostly from the boozy wake that must surely have been held to…

Jonathan RiceJuly 5, 2012

Recruitment

All of Government Round Two: The “VFM” Factor

Ding Ding. Round Two of New Zealand's "All of Government" recruitment tender is about to get underway. The impressive communication channels between MED and the bidding recruiters have hummed into life once more and further instructions sent out over the past week. The pertinent points: 82 recruitment firms submitted tenders to provide external recruitment services…

Jonathan RiceJune 28, 2012

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

The coffee-drinking David vs. the cold-calling Goliath

Having to follow on from Sean Walters’ epic blog offering featured last Friday on the Whiteboard, I must admit to approaching this entry with a degree of trepidation. It’s not that I think I’m less entertaining or insightful than Sean, it’s just these characteristics are best displayed in a face…

Jonathan RiceJune 14, 2012

Employment Recruitment

Why Clients Shouldn’t “Do It Themselves”

I saw a Harcourts ad on a bus this morning saying that "Nurses Make Great Estate Agents" in an effort to attract more agents to their books. Interestingly, on the day following an unexpected jump in jobless figures to 6.7%, the same bus also proclaimed from its electronic screen above…

Jonathan RiceMay 3, 2012

Job Boards Recruitment

New Ways for Agency Recruiters to P*ss Off Internal Recruiters

This week we encountered something even worse than a poorly executed "Ad Chase". Oh yes, it's true. I can hear all of the internal recruiters out there spluttering with incredulity right now. How can there be anything worse than an agency recruiter calling up to tell you they have seen you are…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 22, 2011

Moving On…and Ten Tips to Develop a Winning Recruitment Culture

Sir Graham Henry Embraces Recruitment

All-of-Government Recruitment a Bitter Pill to Swallow

All of Government Round Two: The “VFM” Factor

The coffee-drinking David vs. the cold-calling Goliath

Why Clients Shouldn’t “Do It Themselves”

New Ways for Agency Recruiters to P*ss Off Internal Recruiters

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