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A day in the life of a Rec-to-Rec Consultant

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The names in the below blog have been changed to protect the innocent…and the guilty. Screening my recent ad applicants I came across the CV of an experienced recruiter. Believe it or not, in the world of Rec-to-Rec this can be a rare occurrence. Typically, my CRM is filled with moonlighting dinner ladies and South African Karate instructors. Suffice to say, this CV caused a stirring in my loins.

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Tell me what you want, what you really really want

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Well, here I am. In the absence of Sean and soon to be Jon , I’m writing the blog. In the 8+ years I have worked for Rice Consulting , the purist tradition is that ones weekly musings are pounded out the same morning it is published, powwow hangover or not. Personally, I live in a dictatorship with a 4 year old and Auckland traffic, and I haven’t arrived to work on time work since 2019 so between me and you, I started writing this blog on Wednesday night.

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Remaining Relevant in Recruitment

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Hello from Wellington. Your usual recruitment raconteur is tormenting the eardrums of Fijian resort staff (and fellow holidaymakers, probably) so it’s down to me to jump back to The Whiteboard and keep our 13+ years recruitment blogging streak going. I popped down to attend the Wellington Recruitment Meetup last night (thanks for the hospo Trade Me) where a panel of recruiter types discussed their thoughts around “tech tools for recruiters” with a small but impressively engage

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WPIs (Weird Performance Indicators)

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As of yesterday, it’s official. After two successive quarters of negative GDP growth, Aotearoa is now in the grips of a recession. Well, when I say “grips”, it’s more the kind of “grip” displayed by that unplaceable candidate’s handshake. With unemployment currently sitting at around “nobody”, this feels very much a technical, engineered recession as the Reserve Bank tries to battle inflation which has turned asparagus into a precious metal.

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Do you have to be “competitive” to be a Recruiter?

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When I get bored of the sound of my own voice, I occasionally ask candidates interview questions. One that I occasionally ask is; “Do you consider yourself a competi ti ve person?” Why I ask this I don’t know, but I suppose it fills the void of awkward and uncomfortable silence, before I tell them about all of my achievements. Given that agency recruiters live and die by their billing figures, and your performance is solely judged on this number versus everyone else’s number, y

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Do something different today

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Auckland is a difficult place to live currently. No summer, followed by what feels like a lifetime of rain. The whole city turned into a massive building site. 2 hour commutes home into a damp house with a f*cked retaining wall with the warmer months seemingly a lifetime away. Although I typically dislike this shoulder season, this time round it seems especially bad.

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The Politics of Headhunting

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Although my casual appearance and demeanour may suggest otherwise, I actually started my career in what pompous London Recruiters call “Executive Search” Back then, there was no LinkedIn, and although Executive Search was positioned (and priced) as something quite classy, the role of a Researcher looked as follows; If we were looking for a Marketing Director for an Insurance Company, I would first use Google to make a list of every financial services company in the UK.

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