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Vote for Pedro Recruitment

So the annual SEEK awards must be getting close again.  So far I have been implored by eleven different recruitment companies to bestow my individual vote upon them, via email, LinkedIn and Twitter.  The vote, for those of you unaware, is to designate that particular firm as my "favourite recruitment…
Jonathan Rice
August 15, 2013
EmploymentJob BoardsRecruitmentSourcing

Is LinkedIn Losing Its Way?

Hey LinkedIn.  What are you up to?  You're the professional social network that is supposed to be the future of recruitment... Are you finding it difficult to juggle being the altruistic nirvana for professional networking and a publicly listed corporation monetising and commercialising left, right and centre to to sate your voracious…
Jonathan Rice
July 25, 2013
Recruitment

The Cult of Job-Hop Happy Recruiters

Wow, what a storm last night.  I hope everyone out there in recruitment land is safe and sound this morning, especially the icy South and our wind torn capital.  Quick one from me today as I'm working from home this morning.  No we're not snowed in in Auckland, although the…
Jonathan Rice
June 20, 2013
EmploymentJob BoardsRecruitment

Recruitment SEEKonomics

There's an intriguing range of wild and wacky economic indicators being bandied about by some lighter-hearted economists these days.  Have you heard about burgernomics and the Big Mac Index that measures the currency level of a nation against it's average Big Mac price?  (NZ is bang on the money).  Or…
Jonathan Rice
June 6, 2013
Human ResourcesRecruitment

Sourcing Summit Special Offer

This week we have an awesome special offer for all of you cool, savvy and switched-on Whiteboard readers.  The company that brought the much talked about RHUB to New Zealand last year are bringing the first ever Sourcing Summit #SOSUNZ to Auckland in just a couple of weeks' time and…
Jonathan Rice
May 2, 2013
Recruitment

Seven Month Itch – AoG revisited

The big news in our industry last year was undoubtedly the shenanigans in our capital city resulting in a panel of 40+ recruitment suppliers onto the All of Government recruitment services contract.  After what eventually descended into a bitter and acrimonious RFP process characterised by finger-pointing, points-scoring and pants-dropping by many…
Jonathan Rice
April 18, 2013
EmploymentJob BoardsRecruitment

Recruiters and Rocket Scientists

Anyone can do recruitment.  It isn't exactly rocket science, right? Heard that good old chestnut before?  Of course you have.  How about the fact that there's no barriers to entry in recruitment? (Yawn).  That all we're doing is chucking ads up on job boards (ok some are, hopefully many others…
Jonathan Rice
April 4, 2013