Recruitment

The Placement Dance (And Other Ways to Embarrass Your Staff)

My first ever real sales job was in a car rental office in Southern California. There are many things I can recall from my first week there. There's a lot of remarkable things for a 22 year old English guy to experience in his first few days in America. But one…

Jonathan RiceJanuary 19, 2012

Employment Recruitment

Could Henry’s Return Ever Be Mirrored in the Recruitment World?

The cupboard has been unlocked, the heavy door groaned backwards, and from the musty semi-darkness here it comes. On squeaky wheels, with 2011's words still faintly visible, The Whiteboard rattles and shakes its way into the bright lights of Recruitment 2012. Welcome back. I love this time of year. The…

Jonathan RiceJanuary 12, 2012

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment

The Whiteboard’s (Alternative) Recruitment Predictions for 2012

Hmmm, there seem to be rather a lot of predictions for 2012 wafting around the social media blogosphere in recent days. How on earth is one to know what to do with themselves as the impending end of 2011 looms ever closer? How can one prepare for the trials and tribulations…

Jonathan RiceDecember 15, 2011

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Hindsight or Arse-sight? Reflecting on The Whiteboard’s 2011 Predictions

Last year, around about this time, The Whiteboard brought to you my predictions for what 2011 had in store for us in the world of recruitment. Next week I will be wheeling out a similar offering, although cunningly this time I will be issuing forth predictions for Recruitment 2012. Just…

Jonathan RiceDecember 8, 2011

Recruitment

Crowdsourcing Recruitment: the new way to work hard for nothing

Contingent recruiters have long held a universal gripe about the nature of their work. As recruiters working on a contingent basis, they often find themselves working on multi-listed roles, as in worked by a number of competing recruitment firms at the same time. The contingent part of the whole process means…

Jonathan RiceDecember 1, 2011

Human Resources Recruitment

A Point of Reference

When is the best time to conduct reference checks? I thought I knew the answer to this question, but events this week have compelled me to put this question out to you all in recruitment land. Help me answer this question. The reason I must know is that our standards of…

Jonathan RiceNovember 24, 2011

Recruitment

How to Brand a Recruitment Business

What's in a name? In a constant state of flux, with mergers, takeovers, collapses, resurrections and always more start-ups, the recruitment industry is one particularly prone to the vagaries of branding. But does the name of a recruitment business really make that much difference to the performance, the culture, and…

Jonathan RiceNovember 3, 2011

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

Are Job Boards Finally Learning to Innovate?

Job Boards are starting to get the message: Innovate or die. For many years the Australasian recruitment market built their empires by sourcing active jobseekers through print media and then online job boards. As online prevailed, print media wilted, and for a large chunk of the last decade the online…

Jonathan RiceOctober 27, 2011

Recruitment

Cheers for the i-Phone, Steve

None of you will have escaped the news of the passing of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs yesterday. The internet is awash with condolences and tributes to this truly visionary person and the way he conjured dreams and desires into innovative products and tools that genuinely changed the way we live…

Jonathan RiceOctober 6, 2011

Job Boards Recruitment

New Ways for Agency Recruiters to P*ss Off Internal Recruiters

This week we encountered something even worse than a poorly executed "Ad Chase". Oh yes, it's true. I can hear all of the internal recruiters out there spluttering with incredulity right now. How can there be anything worse than an agency recruiter calling up to tell you they have seen you are…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 22, 2011

Recruitment

The Placement Dance (And Other Ways to Embarrass Your Staff)

Could Henry’s Return Ever Be Mirrored in the Recruitment World?

Crowdsourcing Recruitment: the new way to work hard for nothing

A Point of Reference

How to Brand a Recruitment Business

New Ways for Agency Recruiters to P*ss Off Internal Recruiters

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