New Zealand's recruitment marketplace
Plain writing about hiring in New Zealand.
From Generalist to Go-To. How to Pick and Own Your Own Niche on Recruitful On a platform like Recruitful, you’re not the only recruiter who sees a new role. Multiple agencies can bid for the same opportunity. In that environment, being a generalist—“we recruit for anything, anywhere”—is a fast way to blend into the background. […]
The New Economics of Recruitment: How More Roles at Smarter Fees Beat the Old Model and Why the Traditional 20% Fee Model is Broken If you’re a recruiter in New Zealand, you know the reality: you’re working harder than ever, yet your placement rate probably sits somewhere between 20-27%[1]. That means for every four roles you […]
The Days of Bidding for Work Are Over: Why Recruiters Now Need Candidates Before Clients For years, agency recruitment has revolved around one core game: win the right to work the role, then go and find the candidates. “Send me the job description, give me a week, and I’ll see who I can find.” In […]
How to Build a Thriving Desk in a World of Easy Apply and High Unemployment The job market has changed faster than most recruiters’ playbooks. High unemployment, AI‑generated CVs and “Easy Apply” buttons have created a fire hose of applications for almost every advertised role. Employers are overwhelmed. Recruiters are overwhelmed. And the traditional contingent […]
How to Win on Recruitful: From Smart Bids to Better Candidate Experience Marketplaces like Recruitful change how recruiters find work and win clients. Instead of long BD cycles and speculative contingent searches, roles are brought to you and you decide which ones to go after. But in a world where multiple recruiters can see the […]