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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 retention, and how they expected to perform in the next twelve… Continue reading Managing the Risk of Hiring Staff in Retail

With ACC levies being calculated against organisations compliance and focus on safe workplaces, an even greater number of organisations are aiming to reduce the incidence of health and safety incidents and workplace accidents.  Strange how the threat of financial reward or penalty adds impetus to doing the right thing for your staff! While the environment… Continue reading The Health & Safety Indicator (HSI) for assessing safe workplaces

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 feedback from candidates and clients alike, resulting in a deserved reputation as the… Continue reading Hawke’s Bay’s Top Recruitment Consultancy Re-Branded

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 significant incentives for employers to take them on. ‘Returning… Continue reading Up to $5k of Funding Available to Employers Recruiting Staff on Benefits

Nicholas Roi, managing director of SilkRoad explains the importance of joining the dots between an employee’s appraisal and their ongoing development plan. For some, the word appraisal is enough to induce a cold sweat. It may come but once a year, but it has a reputation as one of the most dreaded appointments in an… Continue reading Beyond the Appraisal – Nicholas Roi

High level recruitment decisions that fall apart as swiftly and spectacularly as the recently highly publicised departure of the newly appointed Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce CEO, are a sobering reminder to us all of the need to apply the same diligence to testing and assessing candidates at the top end of the organisation as… Continue reading CEO and Director Selection and Assessment

As most of our clients know, we run highly effective outplacement/redundancy support programs in the Hawke’s Bay region, with an 80% success rate of getting displaced staff into similar jobs within 2 months of them completing the program, which is an impressive track record in current economic conditions. Up until now, whilst almost every employer… Continue reading 100% Subsidised Support for Redundancies in Hawke’s Bay

As the volume of psychometric test 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 even off-shore. The same dilemma… Continue reading Managing Out-of-Region Candidate’s & Off-Site Staff

The beginning of 2011 saw the focus on people and capability leadership in Hawke’s Bay taking another big step forward with the formation of a dedicated Hawke’s Bay branch of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ). The Human Resources Institute of New Zealand is the professional organisation for people who are interested or… Continue reading HR leaders initiate the launch of the profession‘s first Hawke’s Bay HRINZ branch

Assuming 2011 is a year of gradual economic recovery, with a corresponding increase in job vacancies, what do you think is standing between you and your dream job? With so many careers treading water over the past couple years as job security grew in importance, the upturn is going to see considerable interest in jobs… Continue reading Securing the next step on your career ladder