Topic: Sales Staff Recruitment

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

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

PASAT is now available online!

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
After almost 2 years of lobbying and gentle persuassion, we can finally announce that the Poppleton Allen Sales Aptitude Test (PASAT) is now available online in New Zealand. PASAT is the most extensive sales-focused personality questionnaire available in this country, and having it ... Read more

Managing Out-of-Region Candidate’s & Off-Site Staff

Monday, March 28th, 2011
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

Making the most of Telephone Interviews

Thursday, August 19th, 2010
With current times bringing in high numbers of applicants from far and wide for most jobs, and most recruiting managers facing considerable pressure to manage time and costs, using phone-interviews to screen candidates is very appealing. When used effectively, phone-interviews bring ... Read more