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The knock-on effects of unfilled vacancies on existing staff were largely expected by employers, but this survey puts those effects in stark and alarming actual experiences.  While the survey was conducted in the UK, we could confidently expect the findings to be mirrored in New Zealand. More than a third of staff surveyed reported unmanageable… Continue reading Staff Shortages Causing Unmanageable Workloads for Third of Workers, Survey Finds

Good candidates are hard to find, and when you do find them they typically have other interviews lined up and even job offers on the table already. You need to act fast if you’re going to beat those competing job offers, yet still feel satisfied that you have made a thorough assessment of whether that… Continue reading Act Fast. How to Make a Confident Job Offer After Just One Interview

With candidates being so hard to find, and employers making generous counter-offers to stop those thinking of leaving from doing so, what can you do to determine whether someone showing interest in joining your business is a genuine contender, or just gaming the candidate-driven employment market of 2022? Build these questions into your initial phone… Continue reading Assessing Candidate Commitment

International recruitment consultancy Robert Half reported that 46% of the businesses surveyed to develop a recently released report had made a bad hire in the past 12 months, with small businesses feeling the greatest impact. At 61%, the biggest factor leading to a hire considered ‘bad’ was new staff not having the technical skills required… Continue reading Businesses Regret Half of New Hires

The world of work and the skills required are constantly changing – this year more than most. So, if you’re looking to add to your team, it pays to keep informed and understand the most in-demand skills for the year ahead. With many organisations returning to growth and looking to protect their future, it’s no surprise that… Continue reading The Most In-Demand Skills & Roles for 2021

A recent UK survey of senior HR people revealed that whilst 53% of them ranked talent shortages as the biggest threat to their businesses continuity, only 19% felt they were ready to face the challenges of acute staff turnover and candidate scarcity. Piers Hudson, senior director at Gartner HR makes practical suggestions of how businesses… Continue reading Learning to Make Peace with High Staff Turnover

More research coming out of the UK, but equally applicable in New Zealand from the daily conversations we have with HR/People managers and business owners. When ECI Partners polled 202 HR Managers in the UK summer of 2022, almost a fifth cited their biggest hiring obstacle as a lack of technical skills and knowledge among… Continue reading Skills gap is HR’s biggest hiring challenge, research suggests

There’s plenty to consider when you’re bringing a new employee onboard – from meeting the team to being set up with the right tools. But what about when this whole process has to be done at a distance? Hiring and onboarding new employees remotely comes with its own set of challenges and considerations. There are the… Continue reading Onboarding a new employee remotely? Use this checklist…

At People Central, we’ve recently been hearing more and more about the topic of “candidate commitment” from clients who are dealing with candidates pulling out of final-stage selection processes.  You know who I mean; the candidates that seem really interested in a role, say all of the right things and then at the last moment,… Continue reading Assessing Candidate Committment