Social Recruiting

Recruitment Sourcing

What One Million kiwis on LinkedIn means for Recruitment

Two press releases this week seem to suggest that we in New Zealand have hit some kind of purple patch in the social networking and social recruiting stakes. In the well-versed role of plucky underdog we so enjoy playing, it's like all our noise and bluster in this area has…

Jonathan RiceNovember 28, 2013

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“Anonymous” LinkedIn Recruiters Need to Grow a Pair

We've all heard before what sticks and accusations the general public (especially the ones in search of jobs, funnily enough) like to beat us recruiters with. There's the lack of communication, the lying, the misleading comments and the inability to listen. No feedback, poor feedback, negative feedback delivered poorly.…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 5, 2013

Employment Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Is LinkedIn Losing Its Way?

Hey LinkedIn. What are you up to? You're the professional social network that is supposed to be the future of recruitment... Are you finding it difficult to juggle being the altruistic nirvana for professional networking and a publicly listed corporation monetising and commercialising left, right and centre to to sate your voracious…

Jonathan RiceJuly 25, 2013

Recruitment Sourcing

The LinkedIn LoveIn

This week's Whiteboard ramblings are brought to you by Sean Walters... Speaking with an Internal Recruiter friend of mine the other day, he explained with an excitement usually reserved for craft beer, how he has just actually recruited someone via Facebook. Now I know as social-media savvy recruiters, we’re…

Jonathan RiceJuly 18, 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

Recruitment

Tear Up The CVs

When I received yet another CV yesterday saying that the candidate could "work well in a team and also autonomously" I wondered, what is the bloody point of this? Why do we still insist on receiving a daunting stack of CV's for every job we recruit when they have by and…

Jonathan RiceApril 11, 2013

Job Boards Recruitment

The End of Jobs (.co.nz)

This week we were greeted with the sad announcement from Jobs.co.nz that they had placed themselves into voluntary liquidation. Sad, from a few different angles really. A product that caused barely a ripple on the Australasian market dominance of SEEK ultimately failed in its' bid to change the prescribed and traditional way…

Jonathan RiceMarch 14, 2013

Recruitment

Recruiters – Yes We Can

This week I'm delighted to announce a new Director at Rice Consulting and virtualRPO as Sean Walters makes the step up. And so it is with great pleasure I hand over the Whiteboard marker pen to Sean to bring to you this week's guest blog post, and I'll be back causing…

Jonathan RiceFebruary 14, 2013

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

Is Twitter Really a Recruiting Tool?

A ball boy lies on top of a football in the dying minutes of a 2-match tie in which his underdog team are beating European Champions Chelsea, deliberately wasting time, the complete opposite of what his job is to actually do. The frustrated footballer pokes the ball out from under…

Jonathan RiceJanuary 24, 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

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