The market is like the worlds worst casino at the moment, everyone's a little afraid to put their money on the table. We need that 'papa needs a new pair of shoes' 'winner winner chicken dinner' excitement back!
What are the factors that rec cons and job seekers must have in order to accept an offer? Things have changed in recent times, have your hot buttons shifted?
In 1955, English historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote, in an essay published in The Economist, the following adage: "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" He derived this dictum from him time spent in the British Civil Service, and consequently summed up the inner workings…
As a recruiter, I love April. We bid farewell to the last financial year, and steam into 2018/19 with all guns blazing. For our business, it also coincides with our end of year sales meeting, team performance reviews, and some big picture thinking and planning for the year ahead. All…
Last week was full on with fully half of our whole Auckland office on annual leave at the same time. The task of babysitting all three desks consecutively fell to me given my remaining teammates were a colleague in only his second month and another in accounts. A fellow recruitment…
The "long lunch" is an established phenomenon of the workplace particularly within the central business districts and professional services environments of our world. The "long" aspect of the lunch also has nothing to do with the period of time spent eating, of course, more the amount of post-lunch alcoholic drinks…
Why is it that we tell recruitment consultants how much annual leave they can have in a year? Why do we limit their annual leave, as is the norm in New Zealand, to four weeks? Especially when we also tell them that they'll probably have to take half of it…
If you work in recruitment it's highly probable that you're currently handling a higher than usual volume of job applications. Really, it's any wonder you've got the time to read stuff like this, given the CV floodgates that have just been opened onto your desks. Probably. Certainly, official data from…
2016 was mental. Do you remember? Or is it all a distant memory already? Mentally busy, that is, for many of us in recruitment. I know it was mental in many other celebrity-deaths, global-politics, underdog-sporting-heroes kind of ways but I'm here to talk about recruitment. Many agencies posted strong results,…
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