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👻 Ghosted. Again.
🦗 Two coaching clients this week. Both had interviews. Both felt they went well and the interviewers were saying the right things. And...
Bob Walker
6 days ago1 min read


🧠 Not miserable. Just... blah.
📰 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...
Bob Walker
6 days ago1 min read


❓I have never claimed to be the best writer of a recruitment ad but...
there are some classics out there at present. ⚠️ How about - Join a dynamic, fast-paced team. Must be flexible, passionate, a...
Bob Walker
6 days ago1 min read


⚠️ Job Hunters Scam Alert – Part 2
⁉️ The response to Monday’s post about scammers targeting job hunters has been large - thanks to everyone who shared their stories,...
Bob Walker
6 days ago1 min read


💡 Job hunting? No end in sight? Don't give up!
📉 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...
Bob Walker
6 days ago1 min read


🗞️ Job market update. Spoiler alert: it’s actually good news for once.
🔢 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. 💡...
Bob Walker
6 days ago1 min read


💡 You don't need a perfect plan to realise it's time to move on.
🏖️ 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...
Bob Walker
6 days ago1 min read


⚠️ Scam alert for job hunters in New Zealand and Australia - if you're job hunting right now, please read this.
🎯 For months I’ve seen stories about scammers posing as recruiters on LinkedIn . Now it’s hitting home locally. Two of my career...
Bob Walker
Jun 111 min read


Ghosting
👻 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...
Bob Walker
Jun 111 min read


The expert's view
🏜️ 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....
Bob Walker
Mar 301 min read


Same old, same old
🥱 Market Update: New year, same old job market... 🛑 At first glance, not much has changed in 2025. Online vacancy numbers (clearly...
Bob Walker
Mar 301 min read


Don't call us and we won't call you
📞 "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...
Bob Walker
Mar 301 min read


New year new career?
🏖️ 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...
Bob Walker
Mar 301 min read


2025 - here we go again
📅 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...
Bob Walker
Mar 301 min read


2025 - the year of the job hunter?
❓ 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...
Bob Walker
Mar 301 min read


Look after your customers...
📈 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...
Bob Walker
Nov 16, 20231 min read


5 weeks 'til Christmas....
🎅 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...
Bob Walker
Nov 16, 20231 min read


Recruiter turned career coach
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...
Bob Walker
Nov 16, 20231 min read


Ghosting....
➡ 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...
Bob Walker
Nov 16, 20231 min read


Market update
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,...
Bob Walker
Apr 7, 20231 min read
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