Find the Right Talent with...

Why Psychometric Testing Matters in NZ Hiring In today’s competitive job market, identifying the right...

Assessing Someone’s...

Since the Covid pandemic changed our attitudes towards working from home and accelerated an already...

Your feelings of Imposter...

This isn’t a comment and division-seeking piece claiming Imposter Syndrome doesn’t exist. That workplace institutions...

Unimpressive Results Using...

Unsurprisingly, one of the most frequently asked questions from clients and prospects over the past...

The Most In-Demand Skills...

The world of work and the skills required are constantly changing – this year more...

How to Disable Adobe Flash

You have two options for disabling Adobe Flash in most browsers. If you need or...

Testing in Lockdown

If you’re using psychometrics (personality profiling and/or ability testing) as part of your recruitment and...

Keeping Selection Standards...

I was talking to the owner of a small Chartered Accounting business last week who...

Act Fast. How to Make a...

Good candidates are hard to find, and when you do find them they typically have...

Assessing Candidate Commitment

With candidates being so hard to find, and employers making generous counter-offers to stop those...

Time to Revisit Transparent...

During my HR Manager days, I used to think Transparent Interviews were ‘cheating’; not taken...

Learning to Make Peace with...

A recent UK survey of senior HR people revealed that whilst 53% of them ranked...

Businesses Regret Half of New...

International recruitment consultancy Robert Half reported that 46% of the businesses surveyed to develop a...

Staff Shortages Causing...

The knock-on effects of unfilled vacancies on existing staff were largely expected by employers, but...

Skills gap is HR’s biggest...

More research coming out of the UK, but equally applicable in New Zealand from the...

Personality profile reports. ...

This isn’t a scientific study, but rather observations from over 80 personality profile reports fed...

Addressing the Risks of...

At People Central, we like to share emerging innovative practices with our clients and the...

Black Lives Matter,...

As most of you know, our Testing & Assessment Consultant, Mel, works remotely from her...

Can you ask that? Illegal...

Remember the lead-up to the 2017 election, when broadcaster Mark Richardson caused an uproar when...

Onboarding a new employee...

There’s plenty to consider when you’re bringing a new employee onboard – from meeting the...

What Matters to Candidates...

With the working lives of so many Kiwis impacted by COVID-19, it’s understandable that candidates’...

Assessing Candidate...

At People Central, we’ve recently been hearing more and more about the topic of “candidate...

The Most-Wanted Work Perks in...

When it comes to choosing whether to stay in a role or apply for a...

Should Your Pay Policy Be...

Many candidates say they want employers to be more open about salaries. But does transparency...

Poor Team Dynamics?

We all know that positive team dynamics are critical for organisational success. Without this, your...

50k in debt with student...

Every year, thousands of students complete their secondary school studies and are ready to embark...

Avoid lying with these clever...

If you’ve ever been asked in an interview what your current salary is, you may...

Don’t Give Up On the...

Have you ever been annoyed at your team member for being too loud or rambunctious?...

Creating a Culture That...

Many companies take the position that their culture is what it is — and expect...

New Zealand’s Most In...

People keen for a career change might want to keep reading – the most in-demand...

Introducing Podium Testing...

We are delighted to officially announce a new testing suite that we will be transitioning...

Grief in the Workplace: When...

Charles Read used to think that employees should leave their personal problems at home. For...

Sharpening up your phone...

Traditionally, phone and video interviews have been used to turn candidate long-lists into shortlists on...

Time to cash-in on your...

By now, the reality has set in that many, if not all of your staff...

NZ Herald Article on People...

Steve Evans was recently interviewed by the NZ Herald’s Paul Little to discuss the use...

Why Recruiting in December...

It’s December, work is winding down and the work Christmas parties are in full swing. Conventional wisdom...

New Year, New Opportunities

A New Year means one sure thing – a peak job market. This presents an...

A Manager’s Role in...

Having to tell an employee that their performance hasn’t been meeting expectations is always a...

Dealing with Stress as a...

From developing your team to making your own tough decisions, being a manager naturally comes...

How to Work with a Square...

As Managers of people, most of us have had this type of experience. There’s an...

Office Etiquette For New Grads

If you’ve spent much time working with recent graduates – people who have just finished...

Want to Close the Pay Gap?...

Here’s what we know about salary transparency: Workers are more motivated when salaries are transparent....

Data Collection, Storage and...

If you were following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent day on Capitol Hill answering questions...

Leaders From LinkedIn,...

Michael Schneider, Human Capital Specialist at Welltower recently published an article that flips conventional learning &...

5 tips on finding candidates...

When candidates are hard to find, employers need to think creatively to find hidden talent....

It’s All In The...

How should an employer go about assessing a candidate’s likelihood of succeeding in a clerical/administration...

Why Do Some Job Adverts Put...

Words matter. And the way we use them in job adverts can dictate whether or...

Why Talented People Don’t...

Experts have long encouraged people to “play to their strengths.” And why wouldn’t we want to...

5 Key Benefits of Real-Time...

Most employees look forward to the annual performance review the way they look forward to...

Should You Hire An...

A changing workforce has left many highly qualified professionals out of the job market. But...

5 Ways to Start the Mental...

Greg Boyed’s recent death raises issues of mental health in the workplace.  For many of...

Why The Open-Plan Office is a...

Open-plan offices have taken off because of a desire to increase interaction and collaboration among workers....

Health & Safety Starts...

Good health and safety practices don’t just protect employees; they also create an environment which...

Ready To Up Your Hiring Game?

When recruiting new employees into their organisations, most of our clients use our flagship product...

Bolster your recruitment...

New Zealand business leaders have been relatively quick to recognise the benefits diversity can bring...

Are you 100% certain that...

A hiring manager’s and candidate’s idea of “proficiency” in any given software system can be...

The Good, The Bad & The...

“Candidate Experience” is a hot topic in my HR network at the moment. For those...

Cultivating Grit: The Secret...

For those of you who don’t know me, I consider myself to be a Kiwi/American. I’m...

Should I Quit My Job?

For anyone considering making a move to pastures new, BBC Capital have a flowchart to...

Why team building doesn’t...

Hilary Briggs shines a timely light into the perplexing subject of whether to invest in...

Using Psychometric Testing in...

The 5th July edition of New Zealand’s Dominion Post ran a major story on public...

The downside of being nice at...

BBC Capital Maybe nice guys really do finish last. Is it possible that being too...

Accounting Skills Tests...

Accounting Skills Tests Request After many months of R&D we are nearing the end of...

Interview and Candidate Abuse

I first read the terms ‘Candidate Abuse’ and ‘Interview Abuse’, last month on BBC Capital...

Positive Changes to 15FQ+

Most readers will already be users of our flagship personality questionnaire, 15FQ+, arguably the most...

Drop the ‘Busy...

Are you crazy busy? Flat out? Overworked? Are you sure? It’s a common refrain from...

New Zealand Leads the World...

Accountests is Launched in...

After twelve months of intensive design, construction and peer review involving accounting, web and software...

What is your Moral DNA?

MoralDNA™ is a personality profile which was co-designed by Professor Roger Steare, The Corporate Philosopher,...

Contact Centre Impact on...

Kiwi Bank’s creation of c.150 permanent jobs in a region that is going backwards on...

Working in Partnership to...

The past few months have been particularly rewarding for us in taking our long standing...

Assessing Contact Centre...

How should an employer go about assessing a contact centre candidate’s likelihood of succeeding in...

Workplace Trends for 2015

Just to get 2015 into perspective, if you’re HR people are still flapping about on...

Online Ability Testing...

Accessing Supervised Ability Tests Online When it comes to predicting whether a candidate has the...

New Zealand & Australia...

A study released this month by screening analytics company First Advantage places New Zealand and...

Take Part in Building New...

We have been working with Angela & Fraser Atkins at Elephant HR to develop a...

Valuing Abstract Reasoning...

I was prompted to write this after several recent experiences of clients and enquirers asking...

Online Candidate Testing...

Busy schedules and expectations from clients, candidates and society in general that interactions and processes...

Sales Managers &...

Let’s be blunt for a moment.  Exceptional sales candidate’s are few and far between and...

Making the Most of...

Perhaps one of the reasons some people complain about the perceived high cost of personality...

Managing Counter Offers

Whether you’re a recruitment consultant, in-house recruiter or business owner, the counter-offer scenario will be...

Unemployable Graduates. A...

“In the UK, more than half of graduates are working in non-graduate roles, while in...

The case against hiring...

Belinda Parkes, Freelance Journalist, April 2017 Do you trust your gut instinct when it comes...

Hiring the Perfect...

In June 2016, Helen Brand, the CEO of ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) launched...

Where are successful...

This year, we have seen a dramatic increase in new clients, especially among businesses that...

Using Personality Profiling...

What do most organisations use personality profiling for? In our experience, ninety percent of the...

Smart Time Hacks for High...

Whether it’s hiring for the upcoming holiday season or even tax time, the pressure to...

Recruiting Sales Superstars

Recruiting good sales people presents unique obstacles.  Many sales candidates are great at interviews but...

What is holding New Zealand...

Whilst this countries large, and often international, corporate organisations seem to have grasped the value...

100% Subsidised Support for...

As most of our clients know, we run highly effective outplacement/redundancy support programs in the...

Introduction to Adaptive...

Adaptive testing has been around for a few years now, but many HR professionals and...

New Zealand’s Most...

The General Reasoning Test (GRT2) battery of Numerical, Verbal and Abstract reasoning is one of...

Microsoft Office 2010 Skills...

Our extensive range of almost 2,000 IT and Software Skills Test Titles has just taken...

HRINZ Leadership Pathways...

INVITATION HRINZ Members and Guests Leadership Pathways Presented by Sandra Lyall Head of HR, ANZ...

The Health & Safety...

With ACC levies being calculated against organisations compliance and focus on safe workplaces, an even...

Managing the Risk of Hiring...

A few months ago I was asked to join the team of judges for this...

CEO and Director Selection...

High level recruitment decisions that fall apart as swiftly and spectacularly as the recently highly...

People Central win MSD...

We are delighted to announce that People Central Ltd have been awarded the Ministry of...

Beyond the Appraisal –...

Nicholas Roi, managing director of SilkRoad explains the importance of joining the dots between an...

Up to $5k of Funding...

Employers looking to recruit staff into permanent and skilled roles would do well to take...

Hawke’s Bay’s Top...

We would like to warmly congratulate our colleagues at Pipeline Recruitment on a successful re-branding...

What is Your Career Worth to...

Whether you own a business or work for one, 2010 looks to be shaping up...

Assessing Honesty &...

Sales Manager Guide to...

From New Zealand Sales Manager Magazine. April 2010 If you ever want to polarise opinion...

Hot Tip – Managing...

Managing sickness and other absenteeism is an enduring headache for most employers and line managers,...

People Central’s...

We have recently invested heavily in new additions to our cutting edge personality profiling services...

People Central in the News...

Smart businesses work to be nice to the planet By ROMY UDANGA – Dominion Post...

Making the most of Telephone...

With current times bringing in high numbers of applicants from far and wide for most...

Recruitment &...

How do the world’s most respected organisations with cutting-edge HR expertise select new staff and...

People Central in the News...

New Zealand Herald – 17th November 2010 Act to Reward the Faithful By Steve Hart...

What is your career &...

Whether you own a business or work for one, 2011 looks to be shaping up...

Securing the next step on...

Assuming 2011 is a year of gradual economic recovery, with a corresponding increase in job...

HR leaders initiate the...

The beginning of 2011 saw the focus on people and capability leadership in Hawke’s Bay...

Managing Out-of-Region...

As the volume of psychometric test and assessment we deliver for clients across the country...

How to Consistently Hire...

To achieve success, businesses need a competent sales team that will be able to overcome...

Over 800 New Ability, Skills...

When we tell clients that we have the widest selection of tried and tested staff...

Top Tips for Candidates when...

A Guide for Candidates An ever growing number of organisations use testing and assessment as...

Ramp up your sales force

Reseller Magazine February 2009 Skilled reps continue to be a scarce resource, Brian J. Dooley...

More Candidates, More Choice...

These enduring economic conditions have had the expected effect of bringing lots of job candidates...

Recruiting Candidates for...

If you’re in the midst of recruiting for process-oriented jobs and are looking to assess...

Questions for Sales Staff...

Based on the work of Professor Steve Poppleton, author of the highly effective Poppleton Allen...

Addressing Staff &...

Recruiting and retaining skilled staff looks set to continue to sit at the top of...

Four Tips for Using Telephone...

Using the phone to conduct initial screening interviews in staff selection has grown from being...

How to Pick Out the...

Selecting the most talented applicants for sales roles presents obstacles for employers and recruiting managers....

Bridging the skills gap with...

In 2008, People Central began a long term project of filling the skills gap in...

ROI for Businesses using...

Too often, the focus for using Outplacement and Career Transition Services is placed on the...

Three Practical Steps to...

Before we get into the prickly subject of teasing out the sales superstars from the...

At Last – An MYOB...

One enduring request from smaller businesses over the past two or three years has been...

Is Your Career Worth $370?

So, you have spent most of the year doing everything for your clients, colleagues, staff,...

A New Years Resolution for...

With the end of the year coming up fast, many of your clients and your...

Quick Buyers Guide to Using...

October 2012 In our experience, many managers and business owners are keen to either introduce...

Recommended Book –...

There is a mountain of books with similar titles and claims to this one, but...