by Margot Keegan | Jul 1, 2018 | Salaries
I talk about salaries all day. How much candidates want, and how much clients are willing to pay. As such, I have very strong opinions (and many frustrations) about how we approach setting salaries in this market. Years of experience When meeting with clients and...
by Margot Keegan | Jan 16, 2018 | Communications, Industry news
Little Black Poem The who’s who and what’s what of 2017 Kate Daly left Fletchers and went to BNZ, My goodness what a career this woman has led. James Walker left Countdown for the Ministry of Environment, This lad is so young and far from retirement....
by Margot Keegan | Apr 9, 2017 | Communications
We all love to see confidence in people, particularly in recruitment, but too much of it can be off-putting. On the job hunt, I appreciate it’s a delicate balancing act. You want to come across as knowledgeable without being a know-all, proactive without being a pest,...
by Margot Keegan | Mar 15, 2017 | Communications, Uncategorised
Internal communications wasn’t even a ‘thing’ when I studied communications in 2001 (I know, I look so young for my age). By 2007, we’d started to talk about it, but it was definitely the poor cousin of the communications family. Internal comms people wrote and...
by Margot Keegan | Mar 6, 2017 | Recruitment
Recruitment is like any industry – it’s cyclical. Trends come and go as the market moves. Client and candidate behaviour evolves as a reflection of this. At the moment, there is a wave of candidate behaviour that is, quite frankly, driving us to drink (as...
