Sean Walters

Do something different today

Auckland is a difficult place to live currently. No summer, followed by what feels like a lifetime of rain. The whole city turned into a massive building site. 2 hour commutes home into a damp house with a f*cked retaining wall with the warmer months seemingly a lifetime away. Although…

Sean WaltersJune 2, 2023

Recruitment Sourcing

The Politics of Headhunting

Although my casual appearance and demeanour may suggest otherwise, I actually started my career in what pompous London Recruiters call "Executive Search". Back then, there was no LinkedIn, and although Executive Search was positioned (and priced) as something quite classy, the role of a Researcher looked as follows; If we…

Sean WaltersMay 26, 2023

Recruitment Technology

The Robots really are coming: Recruitment’s biggest leap

Do you remember when we all thought Twitter would revolutionise recruitment? Job boards would die and we'd all be hiring rocket scientists using 240 characters and a clever #hashtag? Or what about the short-lived Google Circles? A complicated Facebook clone where we could keep dick pics and job applications seperate…

Sean WaltersMay 18, 2023

Employment Politics

The phone is dead. And so is everything else.

Regular readers, and those who know me in real life, will know I'm somewhat of a "Champagne socialist". Growing up in a working-class family in Thatcher's Britain, this is hardly surprising. However, most of my opinions have been shaped in later life. To explain, I don't believe that many of…

Sean WaltersMay 12, 2023

Employment Politics Recruitment

That’s all folks…I think. All of Government Part 7

It was 10.41am yesterday when the text came through. "We got on AoG. Heard of others yet?". And with this it was done. The fate of many a Wellingtonian recruiter was set to play out over the next few hours. At around 12.15 we heard from the next successful applicant.…

Sean WaltersMay 5, 2023

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

The lost art of business development

Last night saw me, courtesy of the nice folks at NZME, at "Fight for Life"; arguably New Zealand's premier boxing event. I've always been a boxing fan, so please excuse me for a slightly cliched "isn't recruitment just like *insert sport here*" blog - I drank more than my fair…

Sean WaltersApril 28, 2023

Recruitment Technology

Why are we waiting? All of Government Part 6

In 1983, 61 year old Australian sheep farmer Cliff Young ran the 875km from Sydney to Melbourne in 5 days, 15 hours and 4 minutes. The T30 Tower, a 30 story hotel in China was constructed in 360 hours. McDonalds once built a 75 seater Drive-through in 24 hours. The…

Sean WaltersApril 21, 2023

Employment Recruitment

A Tale of Two Cities

We're all working remotely these days. Our sister business JOYN is built on the premise that a good recruiter can sit in their underpants in Tokoroa and recruit a .net developer living in Bali for a client based out of Gore. This, over the course of over 4,000 placements, has…

Sean WaltersApril 14, 2023

Recruitment Work

“Why are your margins so high?”

"I've spoken to two other agencies who do exactly the same thing as you, and both are considerably cheaper. Now can you either sharpen the pencil, or explain what magic you do that justifies that kind of margin?". And so goes my Thursday morning. Now I could have firstly explained…

Sean WaltersMarch 31, 2023