Recruitment

Hays: Ten Before Ten (and Seven Before Twenty-Seven)

Good morning world. Today sees me in Newcastle. No, not the birth place of Sting, Bryan Ferry, Gazza, and domestic violence - the other Newcastle. What brings me here is a story too long to explain within this world count, however, fate has placed me with three middle-aged recruiters who…

Sean WaltersJune 26, 2026

Employment Recruitment Work

RCSA Awards Finalists Announced – Hello?? Is anybody there??

This blog was meant to go out last week, but was pushed down the list by recruitment's answer to Carmen Sandiego. With a slow news week, we're back to writing a blog that, if I'm honest, pains me. With two recruitment awards a year in NZ, and each requiring a "prediction"…

Sean WaltersJune 19, 2026

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

One in, One out

These blogs tend to go through phases. A few months writing about "All of Government". A few bemoaning the RCSA. A month or two of trite comedy pieces. Currently, I'm on a global recruitment buzz. This is of course good news if you don't work at a global recruitment firm…

Sean WaltersJune 12, 2026

Employment Politics Recruitment

…and then there was Hays.

As a kid, I used to love Agatha Christie. Firstly the TV mini series with both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, and latterly the books. It's only in recent years that I realised how problematic the title of her 1939 book/film was. "Ten Little Indians" was sensibly renamed to "And…

Sean WaltersMay 15, 2026

Politics Recruitment Work

Debt. It’s a hell of a drug.

I owe the bank loads of money. In fact, apart from a year long holiday back in 2014, I've owed the bank lots of money since 2004. Unlike our parents, the amount I owe the bank did not start high in 2004, dwindling to almost nothing today. Instead, I (believing I…

Sean WaltersMay 8, 2026

Employment Recruitment Technology Work

Down the River: The Fall of Hudson Australia

This blog was hard to write. Not because I have a particular affinity with any global recruitment brand, but because I have a new laptop and have forgotten all my passwords, including the one for WordPress where these things are crafted. More on this later. The plight of the global…

Sean WaltersMay 1, 2026

Politics Recruitment Uncategorized

Nobody wins a Mexican Standoff

Three Mexican fellas. All with guns. At least one is played by the always-excellent Danny Trejo. Everyone pointing at someone else. Nobody moves. Nobody wins. Perhaps a tired movie trope, but one that 2026 can’t resist playing out time and time again. I’ve avoided blogging about Iran to date because…

Sean WaltersApril 23, 2026

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Technology

Accordant Group needs $5m (but don’t we all?)

I've been following a story which has perhaps slipped under the radar of most recruiters. Not because I'm any smarter than the rest of you, I just have to churn out a blog every Friday as part of my pact with Beelzebub. For those of you who have an irrational…

Sean WaltersApril 17, 2026

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing Technology Work

The AI Headf*ck

And we’re back on AI. Sorry everyone, but this was prompted by a couple of things. Firstly, there was this article here. If you can’t be bothered reading it, and I wouldn’t blame you, it’s the usual disgruntled-candidate-rejected-by-computer click bait. To summarise more accurately, a mum is annoyed that her…

Sean WaltersMarch 27, 2026

Employment Recruitment Sourcing Work

Recruiters who play God

A mental health professional once diagnosed me as being a "Charismatic Narcissist". Apparently that's a thing. Personally (which I don't take it), I put the emphasis on the first word. Others close to me, including my wife, place it on the latter. I am aware that this differing interpretation would…

Sean WaltersMarch 20, 2026