Recruitment

Employment Recruitment

Is Your Hiring Process Quick Enough?

One of the strongest arguments against the practice of contingent recruitment is that the speed of response required to beat your competitors and get the wins up on your whiteboards dilutes the quality of service to your clients and candidates. Smug, goatee-beard-stroking, retained assignment recruiters brandishing exclusive deals with their…

Jonathan RiceMarch 24, 2011

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Top 5 On-Boarding Mistakes made by Recruitment Companies

Remember that time as a kid you got invited to your little school buddy’s birthday party? He was bragging about it all week long at school. The invites had been sent out and they had glitter on them. The party was going to be held at the local leisure centre…

Jonathan RiceMarch 17, 2011

Employment Recruitment

Giving Candidates the Uncomfortable Truth

Recruitment, as we all know, can be a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. Periodic highs from making placements and securing a new client can be swiftly expelled by savage lows and doubting introspection when things don’t work out so well. The longer you spend in the recruitment industry the better…

Jonathan RiceMarch 3, 2011

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

A Poor Sense of Timing from Manpower Professional

For a change I don’t have a lot to say this morning, other than to gather your thoughts on this job posted on SEEK at 1.18pm yesterday: Engineering opportunities across the ditch Get paid to move away Great career progression opportunity Excellent travel opportunity for the family Our hearts go…

Jonathan RiceFebruary 24, 2011

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Is Recruitment the Real Barometer for Economic Recovery?

This week I made a placement into a recruitment firm that came with a $5k signing-on fee for the candidate. I felt a little bit like how Fernando Torres’ agent must have felt when he negotiated a £50 million signing-on fee from Chelsea (ok ok…I said “a little bit”) But…

Jonathan RiceFebruary 17, 2011

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment

The Future of Recruiting? Predictions from 2004 vs. Realities of 2011

Last night I had an interesting chat with Dave Thomas who is the Chairman of CXC Global Board of Directors, ahead of his visit to New Zealand next week to make some presentations to our recruitment community and leaders. Dave is an affable, straight-talking South African / Australian who founded…

Jonathan RiceFebruary 3, 2011

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

How Effective is Linked In for Recruitment?

I clicked over that holy grail of social media targets this week when my Linked In network exceeded the 500+ mark. I was quite chuffed with myself. Social media is a key part of my marketing and branding strategy and, particularly as a recruiter, Linked In is a critical tool…

Jonathan RiceJanuary 27, 2011

Recruitment

Sharpen Your Sales Pitch by Explaining Recruitment to Your Parents

Do you remember when you first tried explaining recruitment to your parents? I can still picture that glazed look of befuddlement now. I’d been with Hays in Australia for about 6 months when they came over to visit from the UK and see how their son was coping over here…

Jonathan RiceJanuary 20, 2011

Recruitment

10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Modern Recruiter

Welcome back to a sparkling, shiny, brand new world of recruitment in 2011. All across our region the fair knights and damsels of recruitment are once more donning armour of designer suits, wielding handshakes and smiles and brandishing the shields, otherwise known as black folders, that identify you as…

Jonathan RiceJanuary 13, 2011

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Nine Factors to Shape Recruitment in 2011

This will be the last proper Whiteboard post for 2010. I say “proper” because I will probably do something next Friday, but being Christmas Eve I really don’t think there will be much interest from you lot. But I’ll give you something, nothing much, but something nice from The Whiteboard…

Jonathan RiceDecember 16, 2010

Is Your Hiring Process Quick Enough?

Top 5 On-Boarding Mistakes made by Recruitment Companies

Giving Candidates the Uncomfortable Truth

A Poor Sense of Timing from Manpower Professional

Is Recruitment the Real Barometer for Economic Recovery?

Sharpen Your Sales Pitch by Explaining Recruitment to Your Parents

10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Modern Recruiter

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