Some thoughts on the worlds of career coaching and recruitment

🦗 Two coaching clients this week. Both had interviews. Both felt they went well and the interviewers were saying the right things. And...

📰 You’re not in a toxic job. Your manager is solid and so are the team. You’re even getting paid reasonably well. 🥱 But here’s the...

there are some classics out there at present.  ⚠️ How about - Join a dynamic, fast-paced team. Must be flexible, passionate, a...

⁉️ The response to Monday’s post about scammers targeting job hunters has been large - thanks to everyone who shared their stories,...

📉 The New Zealand and Australia job markets have been dire for the last two years. I have huge sympathy for anyone who has had to look...

🔢 A couple of weeks ago I ran a poll asking where folks thought the job market was heading in NZ and Australia for the rest of 2025. 💡...

🏖️ A few years back I found myself sitting on a beach during the summer holidays, and the thought of going back to work wasn't filling...

🎯 For months I’ve seen stories about scammers posing as recruiters on  LinkedIn . Now it’s hitting home locally. Two of my career...

👻 This isn't my first post about the lovely practice of 'ghosting' in the job market and probably won't be the last. 👻 In the last...

🏜️ What's the job market doing I hear you cry. We're half way though March and still no signs of those elusive green shoots of recovery....

🥱 Market Update: New year, same old job market...   🛑 At first glance, not much has changed in 2025. Online vacancy numbers (clearly...

📞 "Don't call us and we won't call you" seems to be the default setting for too many organisations when it comes to recruiting at...

🏖️ 6 years ago this week I found myself sitting on a beach during the summer holidays thinking about going back to work. I wasn't...

📅 2025, here we go again. Many of us are back in to the work groove, some more reluctantly than others. Others are busy tackling the job...

❓ 2025. The year of the job hunter? It’s too early to tell and currently the stats show we are about 15% down year on job listings in...

📈 As a sole trader I am part of a group that makes up nearly 20% of the NZ working population. That's right, there are over 500,000 of...

🎅 With just over 5 weeks to Christmas the thought of a change in career naturally falls to back of mind for a lot of people. It's time...

I started life as a recruiter a very long time ago and still work in the industry as a freelance consultant, though admittedly in a...

➡ I've worked in the recruitment industry for a long time, this is my fourth decade (I really am very old). Like most industries if you...

There's a lot of talk about a recession in NZ at the moment, or at least a significant down-turn. Interest rates, cost of living,...