Family plays a key role in my life, influencing who I am today. In this week’s episode, I share some insight into this, as well as my career pathway and some advice for the younger me. How I became a Recruitment Consultant: I started my career as a Customer Service Consultant in the Banking and…
With over forty years of Personal & Executive Assistant experience under her belt, Mignon White has seen it all. In this episode of the Real EAs of Wellington, Mignon takes us through her journey, from starting out on a typewriter to going through 2 company mergers. Tell us about your pathway to becoming an Executive…
Mallory, our internal recruiter and trainer reflects on her day at the recruitment conference RHUB Edge
According to Madison Recruitment’s inaugural NZ Employment Market 2016 Report, the one word that summed up last year was: changeable.
Madison COO Steve Jackson notes the provincial relocation theme in Madison’s Employment Market 2016 report
The year I turned seventeen, I received a scholarship from First Foundation, an educational trust aimed at helping financially disadvantaged youth pursue tertiary education. In addition to paying for my university fees and supplying me with a mentor, the scholarship offered me part-time work experience with Madison. Four years on, I’m twenty-one, graduating with two…
Entering into 2016 as a young leader in recruitment, I find it timely that I put on paper a few lessons that I have learnt in my current role. I think back to 2013 when my CEO, Simon Bennett, gave me the chance to step into a leadership position. I was excited, pretty naïve (if…
A minor avalanche of recent media reports has painted a bleak future for our employment landscape, casting robots and automation as villains destroying jobs by the million. A possible genesis was a September report from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Australia’s Future Workforce. The report found “a high probability that 40% of Australia’s…
This time of year is a funny one. If you are anything like me, it’s the time of year that makes you feel like you are holding out for something. It’s the final stretch before the finish line and you are tired. All you want to do is lay in the sun (umm, Summer, where…
With a career spanning over thirty years, Antoinette Wilcox is a true gem among Wellington’s Executive Assistant professionals. I sat down with Antoinette to hear more about her journey from an office junior role at the age of 17, to her current position as the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive at The New Zealand…