A few months ago I was asked to join the team of judges for this year’s Unison Fibre Hastings City Business Excellence Awards and interview sixteen large national chain Hastings retailers on their current and planned approaches to marketing, customer service, staff development and retention, and how they expected to perform in the next twelve… Continue reading Managing the Risk of Hiring Staff in Retail
High level recruitment decisions that fall apart as swiftly and spectacularly as the recently highly publicised departure of the newly appointed Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce CEO, are a sobering reminder to us all of the need to apply the same diligence to testing and assessing candidates at the top end of the organisation as… Continue reading CEO and Director Selection and Assessment
We are delighted to announce that People Central Ltd have been awarded the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) contract to continue to provide subsidised support in 2013 to Hawke’s Bay people at risk of losing their jobs through redundancy. Our track record in 2012 of getting 80% of participants back into comparable jobs within two… Continue reading People Central win MSD Contract for 2013 Redundancy Support
Nicholas Roi, managing director of SilkRoad explains the importance of joining the dots between an employee’s appraisal and their ongoing development plan. For some, the word appraisal is enough to induce a cold sweat. It may come but once a year, but it has a reputation as one of the most dreaded appointments in an… Continue reading Beyond the Appraisal – Nicholas Roi
Employers looking to recruit staff into permanent and skilled roles would do well to take a closer look at recent shifts in the Ministry of Social Development’s (MSD) approach to people receiving benefits, which will see a section of society returning to the workforce, accompanied by significant incentives for employers to take them on. ‘Returning… Continue reading Up to $5k of Funding Available to Employers Recruiting Staff on Benefits
We would like to warmly congratulate our colleagues at Pipeline Recruitment on a successful re-branding exercise. Since launching as Riot Recruitment in 2007, they swiftly established themselves as far and away the most credible recruitment professionals in the region, with constant positive feedback from candidates and clients alike, resulting in a deserved reputation as the… Continue reading Hawke’s Bay’s Top Recruitment Consultancy Re-Branded
Whether it’s hiring for the upcoming holiday season or even tax time, the pressure to find a large number of qualified candidates in a short span of time never goes away. In fact, it’s gotten even more challenging in recent years, as unemployment rates hover around historic lows and the ease in applying is as… Continue reading Smart Time Hacks for High Volume Recruiting
Recruiting good sales people presents unique obstacles. Many sales candidates are great at interviews but not much else, and most arrive with glowing references, but for differing reasons. Reducing the risk of selecting poor performers and concentrating your efforts on applicants most likely to thrive in sales and customer relations roles must be among any… Continue reading Recruiting Sales Superstars
Whilst this countries large, and often international, corporate organisations seem to have grasped the value of using multiple-exercise assessment or development centres in the selection of new staff and identifying talent for succession among their existing workforce, the take up rate of this approach in the country as a whole remains painfully slow. The same… Continue reading What is holding New Zealand back in Identifying Talent in Staff & Candidates?
As most of our clients know, we run highly effective outplacement/redundancy support programs in the Hawke’s Bay region, with an 80% success rate of getting displaced staff into similar jobs within 2 months of them completing the program, which is an impressive track record in current economic conditions. Up until now, whilst almost every employer… Continue reading 100% Subsidised Support for Redundancies in Hawke’s Bay
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