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Happy Easter, and introducing the “new girl”

As is the tradition, there's no Whiteboard this Good Friday. Instead, we'll take the opportunity to introduce the newest member of Team Rice/virtualRPO. Anastasia Lee is our new Community Manager, having recently returned from an agency recruitment career across the ditch. She'll be getting to know a good number of…
Jonathan Rice
April 2, 2015
Recruitment

More Recruiting Shock Tactics

Vend's use of the F-bomb in a job advert got lots of air time across various social channels recently.  So much so that it probably helped them attract the right type of applicants and no doubt they're close to making a great hire by now...fancy that eh?  We're increasingly told…
Jonathan Rice
March 19, 2015
EmploymentRecruitment

Tales of Candidate In-Experience

This week's exposure to recruiter-bashing came at a business networking function I attended earlier this week.  A conversation with a very entrepreneurial-minded lady wound it's way from her upbringing in New Zealand, to her life overseas, and her "work" history littered with strange, bizzare and barely credible business ventures.  In her…
Jonathan Rice
March 12, 2015
RecruitmentSourcing

Confessions of a Headhunter

I've been accused of many weird and wonderful things in my decade as a recruiter but last week took the biscuit.  Shock, horror and scandal...I was accused of being a headhunter "well-known for poaching staff from other agencies..."  Well blow me down. Some context is probably needed: I was speaking…
Jonathan Rice
February 26, 2015
Recruitment

The (in)voice of dissent

Due to Jon’s affable nature, he’s managed to book two full days of meetings in Wellington, leaving the Whiteboard marker in my ill-tempered and hung-over mitts once again. The Labour (remember them?) leader Andrew Little made the headlines this week by neglecting to pay an NBR journalist working on his behalf for…
Jonathan Rice
February 19, 2015
Recruitment

A Breakin’ Merry Christmas from The Whiteboard

Welcome to the final Whiteboard blog for 2014.  This is going to be a brief one because, quite frankly, I don't want to be held responsible for keeping you away from far more important drinking recruiting activities on this most work-shy of Fridays. One piece of work you'll probably want…
Jonathan Rice
December 18, 2014
Recruitment

New Zealand Recruitment Wrap Up 2014

I’m having to bash today’s blog out in quite a hurry I’m afraid (or maybe that’s a good thing – you decide). Apparently there’s a load of kiwi websites down this morning, and with this blog being one of them, there’s not much time to write. Thanks to everyone who…
Jonathan Rice
December 12, 2014
Recruitment

Recruitment By Numbers

What an incredible, full-on, action-packed week for #NZRec: 2 - international recruitment conferences held right here in Auckland 5 - keynote speakers from the US of A 2 - MC's from Wellington 270 - delegates from the #NZRec community, and beyond 82,596 - emails tackled by frazzled delegates on Wednesday…
Jonathan Rice
November 20, 2014