Nothing tastes as good as recruitment feels! Another slightly misleading headline but you'll have to click on the article to find out what I'm going on about 🎣🤗
Scott BurnettNovember 20, 2020
The whiteboard has kept true to its pledge of providing consistent quality content for the last 9 years, an uninterrupted run that draws comparisons to dynasties like M.A.S.H or The Simpsons. Like any longstanding TV show eventually the writers eventually need to slack off and as a result, we get…
Scott BurnettOctober 10, 2019
Happy Friday everyone. Well actually it's Thursday here as I'm bringing you the second in the UK series of The Whiteboard. But I'll just pretend to keep up appearances if you don't mind. After more than a week immersed back in the UK culture, plus several conversations with recruiters in…
Jonathan RiceSeptember 1, 2016
Being a Brit, I've naturally found myself dipping into my Guardian newspaper app with increasing regularity this week. With my old country turning its back on Europe after a majority voted for "Brexit" and then the national football team haughtily following suit by slouching off from the Euros tournament, dispatched…
Jonathan RiceJune 30, 2016
I'm enjoying the newly emerging trend of more interesting, fresh-thinking press releases from the global corporates of our recruitment community. Â After years of pithy proclamations re-hashing the same old stories of skills shortages and talent shortages and "oh how about using us to help you recruit?" it seems the PR…
Jonathan RiceMay 19, 2016
Recruiters quit. Â 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. Â There are a multitude of scenarios in which recruiters quit their jobs, of course, and…
Jonathan RiceMarch 3, 2016
I got something of a morbid, but poignant, reminder a few days ago that this week marks the culmination for me of a decade in the recruitment industry. Â The reminder came courtesy of the 7/7 London Bombings memorials earlier this week. Â It's been a decade since the worst terrorist attack…
Jonathan RiceJuly 9, 2015
Am I soon to be the last remaining recruiter left without a tattoo? Â With conversation in our own office around Sean Walters' upcoming sleeve tattoo opus joined this morning by news that internal recruiting maverick Mark Sumner is getting himself inked soon too, it's starting to feel that way. When…
Jonathan RiceJanuary 22, 2015
Today is the first day of 2015 that I've managed to bring myself to wear shoes. Â It's not that I've decided to kick 2015 off by plunging into previously uncharted depths of unprofessionalism (we have Sean Walters for that), more that now I'm entering my tenth year living in New…
Jonathan RiceJanuary 15, 2015
When I left the UK and entered the Sydney recruitment market Hays, my new employer, were kind enough to put me up in their Mosman company apartment for the first couple of weeks. My most enduring memory from that time, apart from the gorgeous sunrises reflecting on the CBD's glass towers…
Jonathan RiceFebruary 7, 2013
