Rice Consulting turns 10 next week, a proud moment, so please allow me this slightly indulgent bit of nostalgia. Thanks to everyone who has been part of an amazing decade in #NZRec.
Jonathan RiceNovember 29, 2019
From time to time the words I type into this Wordpress page and send out through various digital channels manifest themselves into real life reactions. A recruiter moving back from overseas gets in touch. An invite to attend or speak at a conference arrives. A bellicose threat of legal action,…
Jonathan RiceJuly 27, 2017
Companies that use blogs to talk about how awesome and amazing they are don't really get what the whole point of content marketing is about and are surprisingly adept at swiftly turning off their already meager audience. Which is why over seven years of blogging I have very rarely ventured…
Jonathan RiceJune 15, 2017
I seem to find myself frequently riffing on the topic of innovation, or lack thereof, in our recruitment industry this year. It's an important topic for us currently, particularly in agency land. After years of hearing about how technology will replace us - from robots performing our physical duties, to…
Jonathan RiceJune 1, 2017
Why is it that we tell recruitment consultants how much annual leave they can have in a year? Why do we limit their annual leave, as is the norm in New Zealand, to four weeks? Especially when we also tell them that they'll probably have to take half of it…
Jonathan RiceFebruary 16, 2017
There's always been a general air of agency-bashing permeating the recruitment industry, well certainly there has for the decade of my involvement anyway. Usually it's just a general sense, anecdotal evidence, Chinese whispers, a subtle roll of the eyes when a newly-met acquaintance learns what it is you do for…
Jonathan RiceApril 7, 2016
Recruiters quit. It happens and, as job-hopping throughout one's career becomes ever more accepted, it will doubtless happen with increasing regularity. The question for recruitment company owners and Directors is how to handle the news. There are a multitude of scenarios in which recruiters quit their jobs, of course, and…
Jonathan RiceMarch 3, 2016
There's something of the "last day at school" vibe in the air today. Even though there are still, officially, four days of work next week, there's a fair number of recruiters I've spoken to who are hanging up their sourcing gloves for the season today. As is usually the case…
Jonathan RiceDecember 17, 2015
It's Thursday as I write this week's blog post, and for good reason. You see, it's the 2015 SEEK Annual Recruitment Awards tonight and there's a very real chance I won't quite be able to cajole my brain cells into enough worthwhile use to pen anything sensible tomorrow. I'll still…
Jonathan RiceNovember 12, 2015
This post is kind of the like the opposite to those cold-calling sales scripts you sometimes see in recruitment. You know the ones foisted upon you by recruitment managers who typically still use Blackberry phones, sit in a cubicle, and have egg down their paisley tie. The ones designed to increase your…
Jonathan RiceJuly 16, 2015
