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 have grown increasingly discontented with their lot, says Steve Evans, managing director of People Central, a Hawke’s Bay staff development and recruitment firm
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 enough to work with two such organisations this spring, whose approach we can share with you here.
Smart businesses work to be nice to the planet By ROMY UDANGA – Dominion Post & BusinessDay.co.nz – 19th July 2010 Firms that do not behave as good corporate citizens could lose most of their employees and end up spending thousands to replace them, says the 2010 Fairfax Media-Shape NZ survey. In the second of the annual sustainable business practice …
We have recently invested heavily in new additions to our cutting edge personality profiling services that bring huge additional benefits to our clients when recruiting new staff, making the most of existing teams and enhancing your businesses PR through positive experiences of coming into contact with your business as a job applicant. The three core changes are: 1. A new …
Using a simple calculation to ‘factorise’ sickness absence brings instant, objective and comparable measurements of staff absenteeism that puts an individuals responsibility to manage their absenteeism beyond debate, as well as identifying staff whose absenteeism has been flying beneath the radar to date.
From New Zealand Sales Manager Magazine. April 2010 If you ever want to polarise opinion in a meeting of sales managers, just start talking about psychometric testing. You’ll find that few hiring managers are indifferent to the subject, with some extolling the benefits of identifying high flyers who exceeded all targets, whilst others vehemently deliver bitter experience of using psycho-babble …
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 answer is an emphatic ‘yes’, …
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 candidate has the skills they …
Employers and Recruitment Consultants are handling volumes of potentially valuable people not seen for several years. Employers are taking a fresh look at their wish lists of staff groups that the ‘skills gap’ of the past few years couldn’t deliver as management accountants to engineers are suddenly back in the job market.
Having a choice of which candidate to select is great, so long as you understand that with choice comes risk
