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Recruitment

Uber-Aggressive Recruitment Techniques

I've been seeing a bit of stuff about Uber on the news wires this week. Uber are the ride sharing business that has disrupted (a word significantly overused these days, but highly appropriate in their case) the taxi industry across many cities globally. They came to Auckland not long ago,…

Jonathan RiceAugust 28, 2014

Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing

What Are The LinkedIn Fakers Looking For?

What's going on with the recent surge in fake LinkedIn accounts? A few weeks ago I got three "invitations to connect" from the profiles of people purporting to be senior ranking recruitment managers within large New Zealand businesses. The third one was from someone (I forget the name, but it…

Jonathan RiceJuly 24, 2014

Recruitment Uncategorized

Recruitment Lessons from the World Cup

In thinking on a topic for this week's blog, my week has been filled with football, so I'm afraid the theme continues from last week's post. I won't apologise for this though, there's plenty of other crap being shared around the interweb that you can visit instead and hey, it'll…

Jonathan RiceJune 19, 2014

Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Zapping Jobseeker Spam

There's been a ton of publicity over the past week or so since Zappos announced their new careers page Zappos Insider and the fact they will no longer be posting vacancies on job boards. What has been widely acclaimed as a brave and game changing move (but something that Air…

Jonathan RiceJune 5, 2014

Employment Job Boards

Good Recruitment Ads Don’t Work

Seemingly impervious to the recent Auckland cold snap, Jon has once again handed over the whiteboard market to me as he heads down to Queenstown for the long weekend. Regular readers of the Whiteboard will know of Jon’s propensity to support innovation, disruptive ideas, and l'enfant terribles within the recruitment…

Jonathan RiceMay 29, 2014

Recruitment Sourcing

LinkedIn Almost Got Smart

We've heard plenty of commentary recently about how LinkedIn are revolutionising the way companies recruit and their recent conference fueled those flames of perceived disruptive innovation even more. No doubt the Australasian Talent Conference currently happening in Sydney will pour more kerosene on those flames (probably along with declarations that…

Jonathan RiceMay 22, 2014

Employment Recruitment Sourcing

NZ Budget 2014: Three Key Areas for Recruiters to Consider

It's almost two years to the day that I blogged about the surging Australian economy, their painfully tight labour market, booming agency recruitment desks and snake-charmer enticement of kiwi recruiters to cross the ditch to enjoy recruitment in the promised land. How the tables have turned. Following the Aussie's release…

Jonathan RiceMay 15, 2014

Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Is the Job Boards Bashing Really Justified?

There's been quite a few blog posts generated in the wake of the #IT18NZ conference last week, including one from me, but there is one thing in particular that I'm keen to zero in on this week: Job-Boards Bashing. Given that the majority of speakers represented the hiring efforts of…

Jonathan RiceMay 8, 2014

Recruitment Sourcing

New Zealand’s Digital Recruitment Revolution Kicks Off

I've often bemoaned the short-sighted behaviour of old school recruiters in stubbornly flogging away at print media, misinformed cold calls and command-and-control KPI management. But this week it's time to take a look at those recruiters out there who are pushing the boundaries, dragging recruitment into the digital future and…

Jonathan RiceMarch 27, 2014

Recruitment

The LinkedIn Propaganda Machine Hits Auckland

Hey LinkedIn, thanks for the beers and networking opportunities on Wednesday night here in Auckland. It was really cool that you threw a party to commemorate your attainment of the quite staggering landmark of 1 Million users here is New Zealand (for a country of just 4 million I think…

Jonathan RiceMarch 20, 2014