Agency

The question Recruitment candidates never ask (but probably should)

I'm been thinking a lot about technology recently. Those who know me know that I have no interest in zapping goblins online or insulting the mothers of teenage Koreans playing COD. Instead, it's mostly because there's some exciting news coming out of this office shortly, but alas if I told…

Sean WaltersMarch 2, 2023

Recruitment Work

Recruiting And The Great Regret

Well that was fun. Jumping back into my old agency rec-to-rec desk for the past 10 days, while its current babysitter Sean is having his own baby sat for him on an overseas trip with the in laws (that he's secretly thrilled about), and already it's my last day. After…

Jonathan RiceFebruary 24, 2023

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Recruitment Technology

Is LinkedIn Still A Useful Recruitment Tool?

Hello again recruitment, how have you been? It's been quite a while since I wheeled out the old Whiteboard blog and cracked open a set of erasable marker pens to share my musings on the world of recruitment, so please bear with me here. Looking back, it was October 2020,…

Jonathan RiceFebruary 17, 2023

Recruitment

Don’t take that tone with me…

Well it's finally happened. After a long yet precarious run, I've finally be shut down by LinkedIn. The reasons for this are long, complicated, and historic. However, to summarise, there seems to be only a certain number of times people can complain about your blog, your profanity, or your burning…

Sean WaltersJanuary 26, 2023

Employment Recruitment

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