What will 2020 bring you? With wellness dominating a lot of resolutions what personal improvement can we show in working lives?
Scott BurnettJanuary 17, 2020
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…
Sean WaltersSeptember 19, 2019
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…
Sean WaltersApril 19, 2018
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…
Jonathan RiceSeptember 7, 2017
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…
Jonathan RiceMarch 23, 2017
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…
Jonathan RiceFebruary 16, 2017
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…
Jonathan RiceFebruary 2, 2017
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,…
Jonathan RiceJanuary 19, 2017
I have long bemoaned, in true whinging Pom style, Auckland's lack of infrastructure to handle the rapidly growing population of NZ's largest city. Traffic in Auckland has gone beyond a joke. Whilst the forests of orange cones festooning our clogged arterial routes suggest a significant game of catch-up is being…
Jonathan RiceAugust 18, 2016
Out of the soporific hum and chit chat of last night's Auckland Recruitment Meet Up there sprung a surprisingly vigorous debate. The team at Beca, lead by the ever-suave Richard Long, got everyone up on their feet. The purpose: To position our bodies in different zones of the room denoting…
Jonathan RiceJune 2, 2016
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