Sourcing

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

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

Recruiters and Rocket Scientists

Anyone can do recruitment. It isn't exactly rocket science, right? Heard that good old chestnut before? Of course you have. How about the fact that there's no barriers to entry in recruitment? (Yawn). That all we're doing is chucking ads up on job boards (ok some are, hopefully many others…

Jonathan RiceApril 4, 2013

Recruitment

Always Be Recruiting

When I left the UK and entered the Sydney recruitment market Hays, my new employer, were kind enough to put me up in their Mosman company apartment for the first couple of weeks. My most enduring memory from that time, apart from the gorgeous sunrises reflecting on the CBD's glass towers…

Jonathan RiceFebruary 7, 2013

Employment Recruitment

Career 13: Jobs Pages or an Obituary Column?

I couldn't help but feel that the three "Career 13" supplements published by the NZ Herald recently had more a feel of an obituary column than uplifting and edifying careers pages this year. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the last year it is published in such a…

Jonathan RiceJanuary 31, 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

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

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Olympics Security Shambles Reveals the Fallacy of “Talent Pooling”

As Sir Alex Ferguson might say, it's "sqweaky bum time" in the New Zealand recruitment agency world as firms of all shapes and sizes await the MED Procurement team's decision of who to award panel places on the all of Government recruitment contract. Meanwhile, on the other side of the…

Jonathan RiceJuly 19, 2012

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

The Internal Recruitment Pie: Do you really want a slice?

Those who follow our usual Blogger Jon Rice on Twitter will know that he has taken a well-earned holiday. Being the dynamic yet empowering leader that he is, and nothing to do with the fact that he’ll be drinking cocktails on a Samoan beach right about now, he’s handed the…

Jonathan RiceJune 7, 2012

Recruitment

Recruitment Ad Chasing 101

This week is blog post number 101 on The Whiteboard and funnily enough I bring to you some recruitment 101 advice about ad chasing. Over six months ago I wrote a piece on new ways for agency recruiters to p*ss off internal recruiters when we came across something even worse…

Jonathan RiceApril 26, 2012

Recruiters and Rocket Scientists

Always Be Recruiting

Career 13: Jobs Pages or an Obituary Column?

Olympics Security Shambles Reveals the Fallacy of “Talent Pooling”

Recruitment Ad Chasing 101

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