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Sourcing Eggs

No Whiteboard blog this week for it is Good Friday, as I'm sure you well know.  I'll be busy hiding eggs and such forth so from me and all of us at Rice Consulting, Happy Easter.   Now go put your finely honed sourcing skills to good use and go…
Jonathan Rice
March 24, 2016
EmploymentRecruitment

What to do when Recruiters Quit

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 Rice
March 3, 2016
Recruitment

Farewell to a Tumultuous Year in Recruitment

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 Rice
December 17, 2015
Job BoardsRecruitment

Our SEEK Recruitment Awards U-Turn

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 Rice
November 12, 2015
Recruitment

Five Weeks is a Very Long Time in Recruitment

Hello.  It's me again.  You know, the one who used to write this blog most weeks but absconded on a European jaunt for a wee while?  No...?  Ermmmm, right then, let's see if I can get this going again. Firstly, thanks to Sean for keeping The Whiteboard going in my…
Jonathan Rice
October 22, 2015
Recruitment

Love, Romance, And The Modern Recruiter

I went to an event kindly hosted by Adcorp this week. Arriving slightly early following the promise of free beer on a hangover, I sat down next to the other two early attendees and introduced myself. Given the incestuous nature of the Auckland recruitment market, new introductions are increasingly rare.…
Jonathan Rice
October 1, 2015
Recruitment

Are the kids really alright?

I try and stay positive. Recruitment has a habit of beating you down occasionally, but to last in this industry, you have to have hope. Hope that a candidate shows up to an interview. Hope that the offer is sufficient. Hope that next month will be "the one". My usual…
Jonathan Rice
September 17, 2015
Recruitment

Happy Easter, and introducing the “new girl”

As is the tradition, there's no Whiteboard this Good Friday. Instead, we'll take the opportunity to introduce the newest member of Team Rice/virtualRPO. Anastasia Lee is our new Community Manager, having recently returned from an agency recruitment career across the ditch. She'll be getting to know a good number of…
Jonathan Rice
April 2, 2015
Recruitment

More Recruiting Shock Tactics

Vend's use of the F-bomb in a job advert got lots of air time across various social channels recently.  So much so that it probably helped them attract the right type of applicants and no doubt they're close to making a great hire by now...fancy that eh?  We're increasingly told…
Jonathan Rice
March 19, 2015