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The One Lesson Recruiters Can Learn from Trump

This isn't a blog post about Donald Trump. The biggest political story in over a century has been commented on by people with far more insight and erudition than me, and I'm sure will be for weeks and months to come. Especially as we start to witness the unfolding horror…
Jonathan Rice
November 10, 2016
Recruitment

Candle In The Bin

This week saw the official announcement that Candle ICT, one of the longest-standing IT Recruitment brands in the New Zealand market, would be closing the doors on its unprofitable NZ operations due to their local strategies over the past couple of years failing to pay off: "A significant investment strategy…
Jonathan Rice
May 26, 2016
Recruitment

Fear And Loathing Among Recruitment Leaders

I was fortunate enough to be involved in the RHUB Edge conference this week, which was focused (for a change) more towards the agency side of recruitment.  There was not one single mention of some sourcing hack to squeeze a new Boolean string into some hitherto unheard of forum to…
Jonathan Rice
May 3, 2016
Recruitment

Triumph and Disaster: How Recruiting Mimics Sport

I'm often reminded of the close ties between the roller coaster world of recruiting to the giddy, emotion-laden world of professional sport.  The ups and downs of running a recruitment desk and steering a recruitment business through the choppy waters of business appear, to me, tightly woven with the same…
Jonathan Rice
May 21, 2015
Human Resources

Pistols Drawn in New Zealand’s HR Industry

There seems to be a bad-blooded stoush brewing between HRINZ and a break-away faction keen to set up a rival industry body.  Those at the HR Game Changer Conference a couple of weeks ago ("this isn't just a conference, we're starting a movement"...please don't puke in your mouth) heard from…
Jonathan Rice
September 18, 2014