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New Year, New Me

A shift has occurred, a changing of the guards and much like my day to day where I am attempting to fill the shoes of Mr. Jon Rice in a recruitment capacity I now get to measure up from a literacy perspective; I don’t know which one I am more…
Scott Burnett
January 14, 2018
Recruitment

The Beginning Of The End

Here we are then.  1st December.  The beginning of the end.  The end of the year, that is, but maybe the end of other things you've all got kind of used to as well.  Next week is going to be the last time I write a regular blog post here…
Jonathan Rice
November 30, 2017
Recruitment

Thoughts On 2017 SEEK Awards Winners

Quick one from me this week as I've got way too much work related stuff going on for such a beautiful sunny Friday. Last night saw the annual SEEK "SARA" Recruitment Awards here in Auckland which followed on in the "new" format of awarding category winners based upon the decisions…
Jonathan Rice
November 23, 2017
Recruitment

Time For Something Different In Recruitment

Next week sees the realisation of two different projects we have been working on within our business for quite some time now, and it's fair to say I'm a bundle of nervous excitement and energy about it all. Rice Consulting as a business has always sought to adopt an innovative…
Jonathan Rice
November 16, 2017
Recruitment

Call Yourself A Recruiter?

So. Call yourself a recruiter? I don't mean that in a sneering or belligerent way, no suggestion that I'm looking down my nose at your recruitment expertise (or lack thereof). No. I'm just rephrasing a question that caught my attention on LinkedIn earlier this week, a question posed by a…
Jonathan Rice
October 26, 2017
EmploymentRecruitmentSourcing

The Curse of Being Too Good

I'm currently reading a biography of the former Heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston. One of thirteen children of a dirt-poor sharecropping family born amidst the Great Depression, Liston didn't have the easiest of starts on this planet. Although slavery had been abolished 50 years prior to his arrival, little had…
Sean Walters
October 12, 2017
EmploymentHuman ResourcesPoliticsRecruitment

The Hunger Game

Either I'm losing my touch, or Recruitment is getting harder. Once upon a time, I'd take a job brief, perform a quick search on the mobile database between my ears, and call an invariably keen candidate, all before I made it back to the office. A few cogs would turn,…
Sean Walters
September 28, 2017