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New Zealand Herald – 17th November 2010 Act to Reward the Faithful By Steve Hart Retaining good staff will start to get tougher next year as the job market warms up and people reach bursting point to move on to fresh jobs. Many workers sat tight during the year, grateful to have a job, but… Continue reading People Central in the News – NZ Herald 17th November 2010

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 best practice into their own businesses, and we have been fortunate… Continue reading Recruitment & Development Masterclass – Two Case Studies on Absolute Best Practice

A Guide for Candidates An ever growing number of organisations use testing and assessment as part of their selection process in order to get the most objective view of candidate’s abilities, strengths and potential.  As interviews are notoriously poor at predicting whether a candidate is likely to perform at the level their CV suggests, employers… Continue reading Top Tips for Candidates when faced with Testing & Assessment in Recruitment

Based on the work of Professor Steve Poppleton, author of the highly effective Poppleton Allen Sales Aptitude Test (PASAT), the core competencies associated with success in a sales environment are listed below, together with a suggested questions for sales staff interviews. Motivation High performers are motivated by targets, set personal targets above those set by… Continue reading Questions for Sales Staff Interviews

In 2008, People Central began a long term project of filling the skills gap in Hawke’s Bay and simultaneoulsy raising the prospects for young people to forge meaningful careers and futures in the region. In conjunction with Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga and Youth Transition Services (YTS), we piloted a scheme aimed at giving young people… Continue reading Bridging the skills gap with Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga

Too often, the focus for using Outplacement and Career Transition Services is placed on the obvious benefits to employees affected by redundancy, restructure and reorganisation. However, the tangible benefits to the businesses that engage outplacement services need to be brought to the fore during turbulent economic times. In 2002 the US Centre for Organisational Research… Continue reading ROI for Businesses using Outplacement & Career Transition Services

One enduring request from smaller businesses over the past two or three years has been for an IT Skills Test for MYOB.  We have recently located a test that measures skills across the broad functions of MYOB-8, allowing recruiting managers the opportunity to measure precise skills on this ever popular software and determine whether a… Continue reading At Last – An MYOB Skills Test!

So, you have spent most of the year doing everything for your clients, colleagues, staff, suppliers, friends and family. How about taking a moment as the year draws to a close to think about yourself? Is your career, your business and everything outside of work going as well as you would like?  Even if the… Continue reading Is Your Career Worth $370?