Topic: Interviewing

A few months ago I was asked to join the team of judges for this year’s Unison Fibre Hastings City Business Excellence Awards and interview sixteen large national chain Hastings retailers on their current and planned approaches to marketing, customer service, staff development and ... Read more

The General Reasoning Test (GRT2) battery of Numerical, Verbal and Abstract reasoning is one of the most widely used ability test batteries, with over 40,000 administered in New Zealand. This is the test chosen by New Zealand Police to sharpen up police recruitment practices after ... Read more

Employment Today – August 2011 A blend of economic conditions and the ease with which applicants can submit applications through online recruitment sites suggests that HR and recruiting line managers face the prospect of high volumes of applicants for many ... Read more

As the volume of psychometric testing and assessment we deliver for clients across the country continues to climb, it seems a timely moment to remind readers of the options they have available to them when their preferred job candidate is currently living at the opposite end of the country, or ... Read more

Whether you own a business or work for one, 2011 looks to be shaping up to be a much better year than 2010. The downturn did however remind people that one of their most valuable assets is their career. A recovering market brings opportunities to secure new business and reap the ... Read more

How do the world’s most respected organisations with cutting-edge HR expertise select new staff and determine who to invest in to meet clearly defined succession plans? People asking these types of questions quickly reach the logical next step of whether they can replicate absolute ... Read more