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Ref! Ref! Ref!

No, this isn’t going to be a blog that brings to light the officiating of a particular Champions League tie that allowed a once doomed team from the North West of England to prolong the inevitable. The ref I’m ‘referring’ to is reference. A crucial component of what we do…

Scott BurnettMarch 7, 2019

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Wage Against The Machine

I’ve been in NZ for 6 years, 5 of which have been spent in this topsy turvy industry we call recruitment and although placements have been made in Wellington, Auckland is my focus and also my home. Not to alienate the Wellington readership but Auckland is amazing; gateway to the…

Scott BurnettFebruary 14, 2019

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Would you trust a recruiter who looks like this?

Well, would you? Be honest. For those readers who can somehow avoid trashy media content, this is Kiwi "starlet" Kelsy Karter. You know Kelsy Karter; she sang that...song. And she was in that television series. No not that one, the other one. Still no idea? Well join the club. That…

Sean WaltersJanuary 31, 2019

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing

Where Did All the Candidate Managers Go?

Many of us would have started out our recruitment life as candidate managers/sourcing specialist/talent finders or any semantical variation of the former. It’s a tried and tested path trodden by many a recruiter with airtight logic; learn the market from the candidates. As a junior consultant, there is an obvious…

Scott BurnettJanuary 24, 2019

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Be Like Seagal

Most of what I know about recruitment, and much of what I know about life, I've learnt from the movies of Steven Seagal. I'm not even joking. For those who don’t know who Seagal is, let me explain. Imagine it’s 1987 and a 6ft4in slightly tubby martial arts instructor with…

Sean WaltersJanuary 17, 2019

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing

Tis The Season!

Xmas parties As the sun pours down on another glorious day that the weatherman predicted would be thunder and lightning Rice avec JOYN are preparing for our Xmas party. As a fairly agile and dynamic crew, we are a little way off hiring the Sydney Opera House for Jon &…

Scott BurnettDecember 13, 2018

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Thank God for Clichés

Blogging after a Rice PowWow is always a challenge. I'm always torn between hoping that New Zealand's premier recruitment networking event will throw up an interesting topic, and the reality of having to write five hundred words with a stinking hangover. Thankfully, after having the same conversation with the umpteenth…

Sean WaltersDecember 6, 2018

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

“I’m going out ‘on my own’ and I may be some time”

For those who aren’t familiar with the story of Capt Lawrence Oates, he was an explorer, a gentleman, and owner of the most unassuming exit in history. During Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition Lawrence and a companion were trapped by a blizzard, low on provisions with certain death staring…

Scott BurnettNovember 1, 2018

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Should I Give Up (Or Should I just Keep Chasing Adverts)?

This is how recruitment tends to work: When you get your first recruitment job, you are told of "active clients", "databases", and "training and development". You are told of huge earning potential, perhaps even shown a pay slip of a top biller. You are told of the "red-hot desk" that…

Sean WaltersOctober 25, 2018

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing

Witness The Homesickness

Charles Darwin would be proud of us consultants! Survival of the fittest at it’s finest. Like the nomad children of the Andaman sea who eyes have adapted to swimming underwater in search of food, we consultants will for sure pass on a thicker than average skin gene to our bloodline.…

Scott BurnettOctober 11, 2018

Ref! Ref! Ref!

Wage Against The Machine

Where Did All the Candidate Managers Go?

Be Like Seagal

Thank God for Clichés

“I’m going out ‘on my own’ and I may be some time”

Should I Give Up (Or Should I just Keep Chasing Adverts)?

Witness The Homesickness

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