Opportunity Missed by Employers / Managers?

The Top 10 of the "Who is NZ's IT Rockstar" have been chosen - check out www.itrockstar.co.nz for more information.

While we had a great response to the competition and many nominations I was dissapointed that not as many managers or employers got involved and made nominations for some of their staff. Here was a perfect chance for a manager to do so, it would of cost them nothing (apart from 4 or 5 minutes of their time) and it would of shown their employee "hey my manager thinks I am a bit special".

I can hear the arguement brewing around 'our team make us a great operation not just one person' which is true but I would hope people are not that petty about not being nominated. Managers or employers didn't need to single out their highest paid or most technical person - all we wanted was a good story.

Britian's Got Talent - Connie

I thought this was a bit special:

Recruiters Consolidating??

Recently we have seen a couple of local IT Recruitment businesses get sold / merge. Recently Duncan & Ryan were acquired by Talent2 (an Aussie based, ASX listed recruitment firm) and the word on the street is that some smaller recruiters are looking to merge.

Why is this?

- Is it because people simply find it to hard and want a little more protection by being part of a bigger player?

- Is it that they were simply offered some great money for their business?

- Is it that some people are concerned about the upcoming election and the impact that could have on their business?

- Is there no room for small players (those who have two or three staff) in the marketplace?

Anyway nice work Bruce (from Duncan & Ryan), hopefully you got a good price:)