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Crowdsourcing Recruitment: the new way to work hard for nothing

Contingent recruiters have long held a universal gripe about the nature of their work. As recruiters working on a contingent basis, they often find themselves working on multi-listed roles, as in worked by a number of competing recruitment firms at the same time. The contingent part of the whole process means…

Jonathan RiceDecember 1, 2011

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

Are Job Boards Finally Learning to Innovate?

Job Boards are starting to get the message: Innovate or die. For many years the Australasian recruitment market built their empires by sourcing active jobseekers through print media and then online job boards. As online prevailed, print media wilted, and for a large chunk of the last decade the online…

Jonathan RiceOctober 27, 2011

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Wordle Up: Job Descriptions for the Digital Age

Some of you may remember my blog post last year about Job Descriptions being a waste of paper. Well my views on this haven't changed much at all. In fact, if anything, I probably believe this even more vehemently than before. Job Descriptions in their traditional form are such a…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 1, 2011

Recruitment

Does Flipping Burgers Make You a Good Potential Recruiter?

Picture the scene: It's lunchtime in downtown Auckland. The bland CBD streets have come alive with a stampede of suited office workers. A Rice Consulting employee with a bargain-hunting mindset decides that, after much consideration, followed by consultations of the Entertainment Book, today it will be the nourishing wonders of…

Jonathan RiceAugust 18, 2011

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment

Sourcing is no longer a Job…it’s a Vocation

Morning all. In fact should I say night all? I was up so early this morning that it probably still qualified as night time. Well it certainly did for the drunk couple that staggered into my hotel in Sydney as I was checking out this morning. First one in Sydney's…

Jonathan RiceAugust 11, 2011

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment

Live Blogging and Hot-Sourcing in Sydney

Here's a quick tip for you: When typing something into Google try and make sure your brain is engaged at least in first gear. My attention had drifted to such an extreme distance last night that, thinking you are typing in "Sourcing", but in fact you spell it "Saucing", can provoke…

Jonathan RiceAugust 4, 2011

Crowdsourcing Recruitment: the new way to work hard for nothing

Wordle Up: Job Descriptions for the Digital Age

Does Flipping Burgers Make You a Good Potential Recruiter?

Sourcing is no longer a Job…it’s a Vocation

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Crowdsourcing Recruitment: the new way to work hard for nothing

Are Job Boards Finally Learning to Innovate?

Wordle Up: Job Descriptions for the Digital Age

Does Flipping Burgers Make You a Good Potential Recruiter?

Sourcing is no longer a Job…it’s a Vocation

Live Blogging and Hot-Sourcing in Sydney

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