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Employment Human Resources Recruitment Technology

What SHOULD get you banned from LinkedIn

Getting banned from LinkedIn is easy enough. Trust me. All you have to do is write a few sharp blogs, tag a few people, and “enjoy” the cut’n’thrust of a comments section. Mostly, you’ll get banned for (as far as I’m concerned) no biggie. Such is life. In my strange…

Sean WaltersDecember 12, 2025

Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment Work

BORING!

I've worked many boring jobs. I've sorted mail, built beer cooling machines, mixed spices, sat on the end of conveyer belts, worked in two(!) different garlic factories, calibrated fruit machines, bottled water, and even cleaned out sanitary bins (not a job for a young man trying to maintain a positive…

Sean WaltersNovember 21, 2025

Employment Human Resources Work

Weighing in on the “open to work” debate.

Yes yes. I know I am very late to the table on this one. Those who know me however will realise that it is within my contrarian nature to intentionally avoid any topic that any normal person may be interested in at any given point of time. Instead, Luxon’s desire…

Sean WaltersMarch 21, 2025

Job Boards Recruitment Technology

“72% of UK Recruiters use AI…”

...and 90% of what they do with it only serves to p*ss me off. This year, I'm avoiding my usual prediction of what we'll see in 2025. The world is so strange these days that I'm a bit over constantly being way off the mark. Instead, I'm sticking to the…

Sean WaltersJanuary 17, 2025

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

How Awful Are We?

If you spend any amount of time on LinkedIn, you'll see that Recruitment Consultants are almost universally disliked. Recently I've spent a bit of time dealing with other industries who are also perceived as being awful. Here's my ratings: Real Estate Agents I've just sold and bought a house, so…

Sean WaltersJanuary 26, 2024

Recruitment Sourcing

The Politics of Headhunting

Although my casual appearance and demeanour may suggest otherwise, I actually started my career in what pompous London Recruiters call "Executive Search". Back then, there was no LinkedIn, and although Executive Search was positioned (and priced) as something quite classy, the role of a Researcher looked as follows; If we…

Sean WaltersMay 26, 2023

Employment Recruitment

The Recruiter’s Secret Weapon

What if I told you that for a one-off investment of $5,013.30+GST, two hours of your time, and a recurring fee of $100 per month, you could, at a conservative estimate, bill an extra $50k-100k per year? You'd think I'm either crazy or a genius right? Perhaps both. In this…

Sean WaltersMarch 17, 2023

Employment Recruitment

Now is NOT the time to be a lazy Recruiter

Speaking with an agency client recently, they told me a story which even I found surprising. This was not a story about exceptional service, $2 million dollar billings, or a Recruiter with no ego - all of which I would have found mildly interesting. Instead it was about the new…

Sean WaltersMarch 10, 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