Jobseeker

Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Scout: Trade Me’s Latest Play in Battle with SEEK

If you’re working in New Zealand’s recruitment and talent acquisition industry then you’ve no doubt heard about Trade Me Jobs’ new proactive talent finder platform Scout. Actually, let me rephrase that: If you work in those sectors and actually have any interest in trying to explore new ways of doing…

Jonathan RiceMarch 5, 2019

Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

The Silent Treatment

As a recruiter, I love April. We bid farewell to the last financial year, and steam into 2018/19 with all guns blazing. For our business, it also coincides with our end of year sales meeting, team performance reviews, and some big picture thinking and planning for the year ahead. All…

Sean WaltersApril 19, 2018

Job Boards Recruitment

Congestion Ahead for Kiwi Job Board Market

The online job board market here in New Zealand is set to get more congested than Auckland's Southern Motorway at rush hour any time of day. As mentioned last week NZME are set to launch their new job board YUDU next year in a bid to challenge the dominance of…

Jonathan RiceNovember 9, 2017

Job Boards Recruitment

NZME Wade Into Online Job Board Market

New Zealand employers and recruiters will soon have another new jobs platform to add to their sourcing channels. Well, that at least is what NZME will be hoping, as they announced yesterday the upcoming launch of YUDU, a job listings website with some extra padding like "industry-specific news, practical advice…

Jonathan RiceNovember 2, 2017

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

The Hunger Game

Either I'm losing my touch, or Recruitment is getting harder. Once upon a time, I'd take a job brief, perform a quick search on the mobile database between my ears, and call an invariably keen candidate, all before I made it back to the office. A few cogs would turn,…

Sean WaltersSeptember 28, 2017

Recruitment

The Joy Of Herding Cats

Last week was full on with fully half of our whole Auckland office on annual leave at the same time. The task of babysitting all three desks consecutively fell to me given my remaining teammates were a colleague in only his second month and another in accounts. A fellow recruitment…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 7, 2017

Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment

Can LinkedIn Activity Predict When Staff Might Quit?

There seem to be a lot of preemptive attacks being threatened these days. Although not quite as alarming as the belligerent posturing between Donald and Kim, a San Francisco company HiQ Labs is filing a preemptive lawsuit against LinkedIn to protect their access to publicly available profiles on the networking…

Jonathan RiceAugust 10, 2017

Employment Recruitment

Are We Discriminating? Or Just Failing to Communicate?

From time to time the words I type into this Wordpress page and send out through various digital channels manifest themselves into real life reactions. A recruiter moving back from overseas gets in touch. An invite to attend or speak at a conference arrives. A bellicose threat of legal action,…

Jonathan RiceJuly 27, 2017

Recruitment

How Recruiters Can Start To Combat Racism

So last week's blog about the recording of a racist recruiter's rant caused quite a stir, which is to be expected. Much of the reaction consisted of varying levels of indignation and outrage, something we digital commentators have become pretty competent at expressing in recent years. You know how LinkedIn…

Jonathan RiceJune 29, 2017