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The Only Advice I Can Offer

My wife is currently pregnant. We don't know if it's a boy or girl or a they, and won't do until the little mite makes an appearance in February. We prefer it that way. Someone asked me the other week what the most important advice I'll impart on my child…
Sean Walters
August 20, 2021
EmploymentHuman ResourcesTechnology

Stop F*cking Lying

LinkedIn isn't what it once was. As a man approaching his 40th birthday, I'm allowed to write stuff like that. It used to be a place where you could see where people were working, drop 'em a message, read the occasional interesting article, and share a hastily-written job ad. These…
Sean Walters
August 6, 2021
EmploymentJob BoardsRecruitment

Sell a Retainer or Retain Your Sanity?

"RETAINED! RETAINED! RETAINED!" If any of the big Recruitment personalities of LinkedIn posted the above, they'd have "likes' into the thousands and comments into the hundreds. Now of course, those commenting would be that unique breed of recruitment sycophant who always comment with "Nail. On. Head. As per usual Greg.…
Sean Walters
July 23, 2021
Recruitment

City of Sales ⛵

I've found that being 'salesy' is viewed a little more positively in Tamaki Makaurau. Regardless, we seem to not like salesy people in recruitment, a role that is essentially sales 🤷‍♂️
Scott Burnett
July 2, 2021
Recruitment

Counter Culture

Been a real resurgence of a counter-culture recently, not the putting daisies into rifle type. More the massive increase to a base salary so you won't leave type.
Scott Burnett
June 18, 2021