RHUB

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

The Recruiter Two Year Itch

For some reason or other the (lack of) tenure of recruitment consultants staying with one firm keeps cropping up in conversation recently. I blogged about job hopping recruiters back in June. The post was conspicuous by the absence of comments, almost as if this has just become an undeniable fact…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 12, 2013

Recruitment

You Need Chutzpah to be a Recruiter

Everyone out there knows that the best IT Recruiters have a technical background in coding or programming, right? Or the best Healthcare recruiters used to be nurses, the best Accounting recruiters come out of the Big 4, and the best Business Support recruiters can type 85 words per minute whilst…

Jonathan RiceAugust 22, 2013

Job Boards Recruitment

The Recruitment Rollercoaster Heads Upwards

I have to say this has been one of the most positive weeks I've seen the New Zealand recruitment sector go through in many years. I'm feeling good, damn good, and no it's not the delicious Pale Ale accompanying me through this blog writing exercise (I should point out these…

Jonathan RiceAugust 8, 2013

Recruitment Sourcing

7 Random Observations from Sourcing Summit NZ

Hands up if you were at the inaugural Sourcing Summit NZ at the Hilton in Auckland yesterday? Good for you. I hope you had fun, learned lots of stuff, met some people and have an equally fuzzy head as I do this morning. Now I have returned to my recruitment…

Jonathan RiceMay 23, 2013

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

Facebook Leaps into LinkedIn’s Recruiting Sandpit

At the recent Recruiter's HUB conference here in Auckland, Paul Jacobs delivered an afternoon session where everyone had to clump together into groups depending on which social media platform they believed held the future for effective sourcing and recruitment. The largest group, predictably, was the sharp-suited LinkedIn gathering, gazing upon…

Jonathan RiceNovember 15, 2012

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

The Uncertain Future for Recruitment Agencies

I've had a number of reasons to ponder the future of recruitment this week, particularly on the agency side, and it's been a week of incredible conflicts. This time of year is always a time for introspection, as things wind down a bit towards Christmas, and the general sense I…

Jonathan RiceNovember 8, 2012

Employment Recruitment

#RHUBNZ – A Glimpse at Recruitment’s Future

Over the past two days the Recruiter's Hub roadshow rolled into Auckland and I must say I have been blown away by the whole event. Having attended these in Australia I was keen to see if we could put on a similar kind of show in New Zealand. By the end of the…

Jonathan RiceOctober 18, 2012

Recruitment

Essential Stats from the Recruitment Industry Benchmarking Report

I was going to write this post a couple of weeks ago after attending an RCSA breakfast seminar in Auckland but some more pressing issues arose. The seminar was a presentation from Nigel Harse who runs the RIB Report comparing year on year key performance results for recruitment firms and it…

Jonathan RiceOctober 11, 2012

Employment Recruitment

Moving On…and Ten Tips to Develop a Winning Recruitment Culture

So the All-of-Government panel for recruitment services was officially announced this week. Well done to the 44 firms who made the panel and my apologies to Mana Recruitment and Careering Options who were missed off the leaked document from a couple of weeks ago. It's an interesting quote from Steven…

Jonathan RiceOctober 4, 2012

Employment Recruitment

Job Search Scam Further Damages Recruitment’s Reputation

For an industry often compared unfavourably with those selling used cars and snake oil the recruitment industry has been keeping its nose pretty clean in New Zealand in recent months. That was until tonight when I saw the 6 o'clock News report that revealed a job search scam seemingly set…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 6, 2012

The Recruiter Two Year Itch

You Need Chutzpah to be a Recruiter

The Recruitment Rollercoaster Heads Upwards

The Uncertain Future for Recruitment Agencies

Essential Stats from the Recruitment Industry Benchmarking Report

Moving On…and Ten Tips to Develop a Winning Recruitment Culture

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