Rice Consulting turns 10 next week, a proud moment, so please allow me this slightly indulgent bit of nostalgia. Thanks to everyone who has been part of an amazing decade in #NZRec.
Jonathan RiceNovember 29, 2019
If you were to listen to most economists, or read articles such as this, it would appear that the future is looking, frankly, quite grim. We have the US entering trade wars with China, and potentially real wars with North Korea and...Denmark. We have the UK in utter turmoil as…
Sean WaltersSeptember 5, 2019
Given that we are a country largely dominated by plucky SMEs, perhaps it’s of no surprise that New Zealand businesses are prime candidates for mergers, acquisitions, and playful experiments from big business. This calendar year however has seen a big upturn in the number of recruitment firms who have been…
Sean WaltersAugust 8, 2019
This week saw the resignation of Leader of the Opposition and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Bill English. In language common only to politicians and sports team managers, Bill will be looking forward to "spending more time" with his family, and pursuing as-yet-to-be-announced endeavors outside of politics/football. Again in…
Sean WaltersFebruary 15, 2018
Never talk about religion or politics, or so American dinner party guests would claim. With the election looming, and my desk fourteen thousand kilometres from Manhattan, it’d be remiss of The Whiteboard not to stick its oar into the murky depths on the 2017 Election. Refreshingly, it’s not the forgone…
Sean WaltersSeptember 21, 2017
As I sat listening to news, for the third time this week, of another senior recruitment industry operator resigning from their lucrative desk in order to set up for themselves, I wondered where things were heading with the agency side of our industry. My first Whiteboard blog post of 2017…
Jonathan RiceMay 11, 2017
The topic of immigration, like tax, hospitals, and the obligatory tieless family photo, is a sure-fire sign that a general election is looming. Last week, in preparation for this contentious voter rouser, National announced their proposed changes to New Zealand’s immigration system. To cut a slightly dry story short, the…
Sean WaltersApril 27, 2017
If you work in recruitment it's highly probable that you're currently handling a higher than usual volume of job applications. Really, it's any wonder you've got the time to read stuff like this, given the CV floodgates that have just been opened onto your desks. Probably. Certainly, official data from…
Jonathan RiceFebruary 2, 2017
2016 was mental. Do you remember? Or is it all a distant memory already? Mentally busy, that is, for many of us in recruitment. I know it was mental in many other celebrity-deaths, global-politics, underdog-sporting-heroes kind of ways but I'm here to talk about recruitment. Many agencies posted strong results,…
Jonathan RiceJanuary 19, 2017
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 RiceNovember 10, 2016
