New Zealand

The new face of recruitment leadership

A lot is written about leadership. And those who write good stuff about it clearly know more than me. At its highest level, leadership is a science. Studied at Harvard with countless books written on the subject. These books are then devoured and understood by some, and misinterpreted my many.…

Sean WaltersNovember 28, 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 Politics Recruitment Work

NZ and Me: The Story of a Droopy Pecker

"Keep ya pecker up" 'tis what they say. And having gone through a run of personal bad luck recently, I couldn't agree more. Without dwelling on it, I've had a motorbike stolen, a bathroom and bedroom destroyed by flood, shingles, two weird growths cut out of my body, and a…

Sean WaltersNovember 7, 2025

Employment Recruitment Work

I came to rant… but the market wouldn’t shut up

I don’t know what's going on currently. Each Friday, I sit here thinking I can go on some random tirade, and each Friday I seem to be presented with some actual recruitment news. In what should be a stagnant market, there seems to be plenty of winners, losers, launchers, sellers,…

Sean WaltersOctober 3, 2025

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

Stuart Nash…and other irrelevancies

Much to the bookmakers' delight, I avoided this one last week. Although the story broke just at the moment when I'm typically scratching around for a blog topic, I knew that the magnitude of the story would see it more-than-covered in the mainstream press. Yes, it would have been easy…

Sean WaltersSeptember 18, 2025

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

Life after Recruitment, when recruitment is life

I read a semi-interesting Herald article about anti-abortionist Chris Luxon this week. Being semi-interesting, it was of course behind a paywall, so apologies if you can't read it. For those who refuse to pay for news, it highlights how Luxon's approval rating is at a two year low, having dropped…

Sean WaltersSeptember 5, 2025

Employment Recruitment Uncategorized

The Lynx Effect: The smell of success…or stench of desperation?

This is a story about a young recruitment entrepreneur selling his first business, whilst also building two other recruitment brands. Or maybe it's not. Perhaps it's a story about a fire sale of the last profitable remnants of a distrusted brand, made without choice to cut losses and pay debts.…

Sean WaltersAugust 29, 2025

Employment Job Boards Politics Sourcing Technology

Drowning in a sea of candidates

Although I could use the data generated by our sophisticated CRM, I, like most recruiters, like to rely on a little thing known as gut-feel. Let's be real, who needs solid, defensible, researched and reasoned information, when we can provide anecdotes, hear-say, speculation, and rumour. If you're an agency leader…

Sean WaltersJuly 25, 2025

Recruitment Work

Remote working or not remotely working?

As some may know, I've been overseas for the past month. Mostly a "holiday", it coincides with my wife attending a conference, the societally-imposed guilt she feels to see her family, and some "me time" in both Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpar. As she is sort-of-working, so am I. A…

Sean WaltersJuly 18, 2025

Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing

Floating around, thinking about recruitment floats

This week I've been floating around a Greek swimming pool in my speedos. Speedos are of course the only choice for the young, European sophisticate. Any man in boardshorts shouldn't be trusted, add a rash vest, and unless they're about to "hang ten" at Mavericks, stick them on the sex…

Sean WaltersJuly 11, 2025