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We are delighted to officially announce a new testing suite that we will be transitioning to this year. Designed in New Zealand, Podium is built on a foundation of solid academic research, with assessments based on the best scientifically validated psychometric models and a platform that was designed specifically with test takers in mind and can be accessed… Continue reading Introducing Podium Testing Suite

If you’ve ever been asked in an interview what your current salary is, you may have felt uncomfortable answering. And that’s fair enough. Some questions are tough and we naturally want to avoid giving an answer if we think it won’t help our chances of getting the new job. In fact, SEEK recently conducted research… Continue reading Avoid lying with these clever answers to curly interview questions

Charles Read used to think that employees should leave their personal problems at home. For years, the president and CEO of a payroll company with 17 employees—offered employees three days of paid bereavement leave and believed that gave them enough time to regroup and return ready to work. But when Read’s 29-year-old daughter, Shelley, died… Continue reading Grief in the Workplace: When It’s Not Business as Usual

Many companies take the position that their culture is what it is — and expect workers to adapt to it. Unfortunately, that approach doesn’t engage employees, help them be productive or make them feel like they never want to leave. Instead, taking steps to build and continually evolve your organisational culture can help your business… Continue reading Creating a Culture That Attracts (and Keeps) Top Performers

People keen for a career change might want to keep reading – the most in-demand jobs and skills in New Zealand have been revealed by new data. The Hays Job Report for January-June 2020 has been released, with data on the most highly-valued skills, as well as the sectors that have the greatest number of positions… Continue reading New Zealand’s Most In Demand Jobs & Skills for 2020

Have you ever been annoyed at your team member for being too loud or rambunctious? Or impatient with your employee for not getting to the point quick enough? We all have different styles of communicating and preferred methods for getting our work done. As a Manager, having a good understanding of how personalities work, will… Continue reading Don’t Give Up On the Golden Rule in the Workplace

Every year, thousands of students complete their secondary school studies and are ready to embark on a path to obtaining their university degree.  It’s at this junction they typically try to answer the age-old question: “what am I going to do with my life?”,”what should I study?”  Back in the day when a student debt… Continue reading 50k in debt with student loans, a useless degree and no job prospects…

By now, the reality has set in that many, if not all of your staff and colleagues are going to be working from home for at least the next month and quite possibly the next quarter. All those questions on how will you manage, motivate, communicate with, develop and just keep things afloat will have… Continue reading Time to cash-in on your psychometric investments

We all know that positive team dynamics are critical for organisational success. Without this, your business will struggle to fully leverage the potential of employees and tap into their skills and experience. At People Central, we define team dynamics as being the unconscious, psychological factors that influence the direction of a teams behaviour & performance.… Continue reading Poor Team Dynamics?