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Recruitment, the Game of Connections

Being a keen sports fan (and clumsily participating in some too), it has always struck me throughout my sales and recruitment career how parallel the two worlds of sport and sales/recruitment are.  The goal-setting, the competition, the teamwork, the emotion, the motivation, the management and the ups and downs of…
Jonathan Rice
October 24, 2013
Recruitment

You Need Chutzpah to be a Recruiter

Everyone out there knows that the best IT Recruiters have a technical background in coding or programming, right?  Or the best Healthcare recruiters used to be nurses, the best Accounting recruiters come out of the Big 4, and the best Business Support recruiters can type 85 words per minute whilst…
Jonathan Rice
August 22, 2013
Recruitment

The Cult of Job-Hop Happy Recruiters

Wow, what a storm last night.  I hope everyone out there in recruitment land is safe and sound this morning, especially the icy South and our wind torn capital.  Quick one from me today as I'm working from home this morning.  No we're not snowed in in Auckland, although the…
Jonathan Rice
June 20, 2013
Recruitment

Always Be Recruiting

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 Rice
February 7, 2013
Recruitment

All of Government Round Two: The “VFM” Factor

Ding Ding.  Round Two of New Zealand's "All of Government" recruitment tender is about to get underway.  The impressive communication channels between MED and the bidding recruiters have hummed into life once more and further instructions sent out over the past week. The pertinent points: 82 recruitment firms submitted tenders to provide external recruitment services…
Jonathan Rice
June 28, 2012
Recruitment

Too Hot to Cold Call?

Talofa everyone.  Your regular Whiteboard blogger is back, refreshed and revitalised, ready to squeak and squeal my chunky marker pen across the recruitment industry’s consciousness once again.  Thanks Sean and Estelle for your guest blogging contributions over the past couple of weeks.  I’m sure it was a welcome relief for…
Jonathan Rice
June 21, 2012
Recruitment

Recruitment Ad Chasing 101

This week is blog post number 101 on The Whiteboard and funnily enough I bring to you some recruitment 101 advice about ad chasing.  Over six months ago I wrote a piece on new ways for agency recruiters to p*ss off internal recruiters when we came across something even worse…
Jonathan Rice
April 26, 2012