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What One Million kiwis on LinkedIn means for Recruitment
Two press releases this week seem to suggest that we in New Zealand have hit some kind of purple patch in the social networking and social recruiting stakes. In the well-versed role of plucky underdog...
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Breakfast at Bernie’s Points to Recruitment Surge Ahead
It’s been a fairly eventful week for stories related to recruitment. What with Indian restaurants brazenly flouting employment discrimination laws by stipulating that only females may apply for jobs...
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Face It, Companies Do Not Want to Use Recruitment Agencies
Have agency recruiters forgotten how to recruit? And by “recruit” I’m talking about the full cycle of prospecting, building relationships, understanding a client, gathering market intelligence and...
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The LinkedIn Propaganda Machine Hits Auckland
Hey LinkedIn, thanks for the beers and networking opportunities on Wednesday night here in Auckland. It was really cool that you threw a party to commemorate your attainment of the quite staggering...
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New Zealand’s Digital Recruitment Revolution Kicks Off
I’ve often bemoaned the short-sighted behaviour of old school recruiters in stubbornly flogging away at print media, misinformed cold calls and command-and-control KPI management. But this week it’s...
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Is the Job Boards Bashing Really Justified?
There’s been quite a few blog posts generated in the wake of the #IT18NZ conference last week, including one from me, but there is one thing in particular that I’m keen to zero in on this week:...
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NZ Budget 2014: Three Key Areas for Recruiters to Consider
It’s almost two years to the day that I blogged about the surging Australian economy, their painfully tight labour market, booming agency recruitment desks and snake-charmer enticement of kiwi...
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LinkedIn Almost Got Smart
We’ve heard plenty of commentary recently about how LinkedIn are revolutionising the way companies recruit and their recent conference fueled those flames of perceived disruptive innovation even more....
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Good Recruitment Ads Don’t Work
Seemingly impervious to the recent Auckland cold snap, Jon has once again handed over the whiteboard market to me as he heads down to Queenstown for the long weekend. Regular readers of the Whiteboard...
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Zapping Jobseeker Spam
There’s been a ton of publicity over the past week or so since Zappos announced their new careers page Zappos Insider and the fact they will no longer be posting vacancies on job boards. What has been...
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Recruitment Lessons from the World Cup
In thinking on a topic for this week’s blog, my week has been filled with football, so I’m afraid the theme continues from last week’s post. I won’t apologise for this though, there’s plenty of other...
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What Are The LinkedIn Fakers Looking For?
What’s going on with the recent surge in fake LinkedIn accounts? A few weeks ago I got three “invitations to connect” from the profiles of people purporting to be senior ranking recruitment managers...
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Uber-Aggressive Recruitment Techniques
I’ve been seeing a bit of stuff about Uber on the news wires this week. Uber are the ride sharing business that has disrupted (a word significantly overused these days, but highly appropriate in their...
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The Leprosy of the Recruitment Conference Exhibitor
I’m looking for a little bit of feedback today from anyone who has paid for, stood at, and run an expo stand at a conference. Is it really worth the time, effort and money? I ask for two reasons:...
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Recruiters and Their Social Media Fails
Like many of you recruiters out there, things are pretty busy for me right now. Which is great. Hiring intentions are up, stress levels rising accordingly, and there aren’t enough hours in the day....
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Don’t Talk To Me About Recruitment Algorithms
The word “algorithm” still makes me shudder, even 25 years on from when I reached my limit in the mathematics field. I’ve always found basic maths pretty easy and managed to complete GCSE Maths (UK...
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Candidate Sourcing is Nothing Without Engagement
I was recently sent an email from a contact in the Australian recruitment sector that I think raises some interesting questions about the value of true sourcing activities. It also takes a dig at...
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