Topic: Job Market

Hawke’s Bay’s Top Recruitment Consultancy Re-Branded

Thursday, May 9th, 2013
We would like to warmly congratulate our colleagues at Pipeline Recruitment on a successful re-branding exercise.   Since launching as Riot Recruitment in 2007, they swiftly established themselves as far and away the most credible recruitment professionals in the region, with constant positive ... Read more

Up to $5k of Funding Available to Employers Recruiting Staff on Benefits

Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Employers looking to recruit staff into permanent and skilled roles would do well to take a closer look at recent shifts in the Ministry of Social Development’s (MSD) approach to people receiving benefits, which will see a section of society returning to the workforce, accompanied by ... Read more

People Central win MSD Contract for 2013 Redundancy Support

Friday, March 8th, 2013
We are delighted to announce that People Central Ltd have been awarded the Ministry of Social Development  (MSD) contract to continue to provide subsidised support in 2013 to Hawke’s Bay people at risk of losing their jobs through redundancy. Our track record in 2012 of getting 80% of ... Read more

Managing the Risk of Hiring Staff in Retail

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
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

New Zealand’s Most Popular Ability Test Battery Available Unsupervised & Online

Saturday, June 16th, 2012
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

What is holding New Zealand back in Identifying Talent in Staff & Candidates?

Monday, November 14th, 2011
Whilst this countries large, and often international, corporate organisations seem to have grasped the value of using multiple-exercise assessment or development centres in the selection of new staff and identifying talent for succession among their existing workforce, the take up rate of this ... Read more