Technology

Employment Recruitment

Technology Enables Recruiting in the Craziest of Places

Happy New Year Whiteboarders and welcome back to my squeaky-clean new expanse of whiteness for 2013. I'm sure that many of you, like me, are beginning to grow weary of the client meetings and candidate calls with seemingly endless salutations of new year well wishes sparking off the conversational exchange. But…

Jonathan RiceJanuary 17, 2013

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

Facebook Leaps into LinkedIn’s Recruiting Sandpit

At the recent Recruiter's HUB conference here in Auckland, Paul Jacobs delivered an afternoon session where everyone had to clump together into groups depending on which social media platform they believed held the future for effective sourcing and recruitment. The largest group, predictably, was the sharp-suited LinkedIn gathering, gazing upon…

Jonathan RiceNovember 15, 2012

Human Resources Recruitment

New Zealand is LinkedIn’s Lab Rat

Many of you will by now have noticed that LinkedIn have added a snappy new "Endorsements" functionality to the Skills & Expertise section of your Profile Page. What you may not have been aware of is that they are actually using New Zealand to trial the new function so we are…

Jonathan RiceSeptember 13, 2012

Recruitment

How to Buy Friends and Influence People

Recruiting recruiters can be a tricky assignment at the best of times. Like many sales people, recruiters are usually very good at presenting themselves in a positive light, finding smart ways to accentuate their virtues whilst glossing over their shortcomings. This can make assessing the skills and abilities of a recruiter…

Jonathan RiceAugust 2, 2012

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 RiceJune 28, 2012

Employment Recruitment

Why Clients Shouldn’t “Do It Themselves”

I saw a Harcourts ad on a bus this morning saying that "Nurses Make Great Estate Agents" in an effort to attract more agents to their books. Interestingly, on the day following an unexpected jump in jobless figures to 6.7%, the same bus also proclaimed from its electronic screen above…

Jonathan RiceMay 3, 2012

Employment Recruitment

QR Codes: Possibly the Ugliest Innovation in Recruitment

When HR thought leader Dr John Sullivan ponders upon whether QR Codes might be the next Big Thing in recruiting technology, it's worth paying attention. But when a marketing agency make a QR Code out of Oreo cookies then you know this is something that requires serious consideration. QR (Quick…

Jonathan RiceJanuary 26, 2012

Recruitment

“Different Thinking” from our Recruitment Leaders – a book review

In a world seemingly awash with business books, management texts and leadership essays it seems to me that there is a distinct dearth of quality, interesting and genuinely illuminating books relating to our unique recruitment industry. In fact I usually find myself reading business-related books and trying to mentally wrap their…

Jonathan RiceJune 9, 2011

Technology Enables Recruiting in the Craziest of Places

All of Government Round Two: The “VFM” Factor

Why Clients Shouldn’t “Do It Themselves”

QR Codes: Possibly the Ugliest Innovation in Recruitment

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