Today is my last day at Rice Consulting. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened đ
Scott BurnettDecember 2, 2022
This is how recruitment tends to work: When you get your first recruitment job, you are told of "active clients", "databases", and "training and development". You are told of huge earning potential, perhaps even shown a pay slip of a top biller. You are told of the "red-hot desk" that…
Sean WaltersOctober 25, 2018
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 RiceMarch 2, 2017
I received an interesting email this week. Although we work hard on âgetting out thereâ, like a cold beer when your mouth feels like Ghandiâs jandal, itâs always refreshing to receive an enquiry from an as-yet-unheard-of new client. Especially when itâs a referral from a âbusiness acquaintanceâ. Lacking the good…
Jonathan RiceFebruary 25, 2016
One of the most prickly bones of contention in the subtle dance between agency recruiters and in-house recruiters is the CV float. Â For those of you unaware, or who use a different term, a CV float is the act of a recruiter e-mailing in a CVÂ of a candidate to a…
Jonathan RiceNovember 5, 2015
Earlier this week witnessed the gathering of the glitterati of the New Zealand recruitment community at the 2015 Sourcing Summit. Â Well that might be over egging the pudding slightly, but it was certainly a damn good-looking bunch of recruiters, agency and in-house, a smattering of HR, and edifying in the…
Jonathan RiceJuly 30, 2015
I got something of a morbid, but poignant, reminder a few days ago that this week marks the culmination for me of a decade in the recruitment industry. Â The reminder came courtesy of the 7/7 London Bombings memorials earlier this week. Â It's been a decade since the worst terrorist attack…
Jonathan RiceJuly 9, 2015
Recruiters are under attack.  And no, not necessarily from the legions of disgruntled jobseekers and aghast HR departments who are our traditional detractors.  This time it's from those lovely people who try to eke out an excuse for a life sending computer viruses from dark rooms in darker corners of the…
Jonathan RiceJuly 2, 2015
Have you ever wondered how we managed to cope in the pre-internet years? Â Without being bombarded with constant streams of cleverly curated content, compiled into numbered lists (for ease of consumption, and to get more hits), about how to do this and that better, smarter, cheaper, faster? Â How did we…
Jonathan RiceApril 30, 2015
Welcome to the final Whiteboard blog for 2014. Â This is going to be a brief one because, quite frankly, I don't want to be held responsible for keeping you away from far more important drinking recruiting activities on this most work-shy of Fridays. One piece of work you'll probably want…
Jonathan RiceDecember 18, 2014
