Recruiter

Recruiters, we all know it’s ChatGPT

I’ve been banging on a lot about AI recently. Once a sceptic, I am now firmly convinced that AI will change our (and every other) industry more than anything else has in the past 30 years. Hell, this could be as big as the industrial revolution. I kid you not.…

Sean WaltersOctober 31, 2025

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

On the record about “off the record”

I don't know how I feel about "off the record" references. This is rare for me. Usually, I pick a side, swing for the fences, and die on that hill. Often publicly via this blog. In the most part, I loathe them. I think they're cowardly, shady, and borderline defamatory.…

Sean WaltersSeptember 26, 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 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

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

Recruitment

RCSA Awards 2025 – and the winners are…

Last week's blog was probably the most read in The Whiteboard's 16 year history. This would suggest that you all love wallowing in your own and each other's misery more than you do hearing good news. To prove this theory, here's a blog celebrating success* (*if winning awards equates to…

Sean WaltersJune 13, 2025

Employment Politics Recruitment

When to drop the C-Bomb

Growing up, my brother had a girlfriend who was collectively known as the “c-word”. Although I say “collectively”, my Mum would never use the term. Instead she preferred to simply acknowledge who the rest of us were referring to when we asked if the c-word was due to visit. Contrary…

Sean WaltersMay 16, 2025

Employment Recruitment Work

Evolve Recruitment: the death knell for Consult?

I had another blog planned for today. However, following some "hot off the press" news, I have become a victim of my own cutting-room floor. Instead of a thoroughly boring blog about the RCSA Awards, today's blog finds us delving into recruitment's newest kid on the block, Evolve Recruitment. A…

Sean WaltersMay 2, 2025