Let’s be blunt for a moment. Exceptional sales candidate’s are few and far between and when they enter the job market, they can choose their next employer to a greater extent than most. In spite of this, many managers and recruiters still approach the selection process as if they somehow hold all the cards and fail to present themselves as …
Online Candidate Testing & Assessment. Balancing benefits against risks
Busy schedules and expectations from clients, candidates and society in general that interactions and processes are conducted online have had a much debated effect on how psychometric and other assessments are conducted. In just the past two years, we have seen and led that change to the point where we have conducted traditional in-person supervised testing sessions about twice a …
Take Part in Building New Zealand’s First HR Skills Tests
We have been working with Angela & Fraser Atkins at Elephant HR to develop a suite of New Zealand specific HR Knowledge Tests aimed at three levels of HR roles, with the intention of providing employers of HR professionals with an objective tool to support their recruitment and development decision making. The tests are written & almost ready to go, …
New Zealand & Australia Candidates top in Asia Pacific for CV Embellishment
A study released this month by screening analytics company First Advantage places New Zealand and Australian candidates as those most likely to stretch the truth in their CV’s, with 26.9% of CV’s found to be significantly embellished, compared to the next two highest scorers being Singapore (18.8%) and Hong Kong (16.4%). Of all CV discrepancies in Asia Pacific, 54% related …
Online Ability Testing – Big Step Forward in Availability & Efficiency
Accessing Supervised Ability Tests Online When it comes to predicting whether a candidate has the capability to perform the cognitive tasks essential to success in any job, ability testing has one of the strongest correlations of effectiveness. With ability testing suites available for almost every function and level, from Industrial and Process Staff to Senior Managers and Technical Experts, there …
Workplace Trends for 2015
Just to get 2015 into perspective, if you’re HR people are still flapping about on how to communicate and engage with Gen-Y, here’s a few shocks for you: Gen-Y will form the largest part of the global workforce in 2015 27% of this group are already in management positions 3% are in senior management positions and 2% in executive roles …
Working in Partnership to Prepare a Contact Centre Workforce
The past few months have been particularly rewarding for us in taking our long standing partnership with the regional Ministry of Social Development (MSD) office into new grounds of preparing this regions potential workforce for employment in contact centre environments. Drawing on the experiences of introducing contact centres to economically depressed regions in South Wales and the interventions to prepare …
Contact Centre Impact on Regional Economies
Kiwi Bank’s creation of c.150 permanent jobs in a region that is going backwards on most economic indicators is perhaps the best news we have had the pleasure of reporting for several years. People Central has handled in excess of 200 permanent job losses through redundancy support in the last 2 years and we know that is just a small …
What is your Moral DNA?
MoralDNA™ is a personality profile which was co-designed by Professor Roger Steare, The Corporate Philosopher, and Pavlos Stamboulides, Director of Psycholate. It is free of charge for personal use, and the profile it creates is designed to help you understand your moral values, how you prefer to make good decisions and ‘do the right thing’. If want to assess your …
Accountests is Launched in New Zealand
After twelve months of intensive design, construction and peer review involving accounting, web and software expertise from Europe and New Zealand, it was with great pleasure that we launched the website and online testing platform for our new sister company Accountests Ltd on 15th July. Accountests has been created to fill a widely felt void felt by recruiting managers, business …