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Whether you’re a recruitment consultant, in-house recruiter or business owner, the counter-offer scenario will be a familiar exasperation.   After all the hours and effort of a selection process, you’re hard won final stage candidate is offered the job, only to turn it down when offered a pay rise by their current employer, or use… Continue reading Managing Counter Offers

Are you crazy busy? Flat out? Overworked? Are you sure? It’s a common refrain from friends — or our own mouths — that we’re too busy and have too much to do. For many, being loaded down with work and other commitments is a badge of honour, a sign of importance. But should we be… Continue reading Drop the ‘Busy Excuse’!

“In the UK, more than half of graduates are working in non-graduate roles, while in the US graduate unemployment  currently stands at 5.5%. After years of study and expense, what a shocking waste of talent and money and dreams. Year after year however I listen to concerned clients of Hays who are worried that each… Continue reading Unemployable Graduates. A global crisis and how we might fix it

INVITATION HRINZ Members and Guests Leadership Pathways Presented by Sandra Lyall Head of HR, ANZ HRINZ Hawke’s Bay is pleased to announce its next event on 6 September, with Sandra Lyall – Leadership Pathways. Senior HR Manager at ANZ National, Sandra is part of a strategy to engage and inspire their people to execute the… Continue reading HRINZ Leadership Pathways Event – 6th September, Hastings

With ACC levies being calculated against organisations compliance and focus on safe workplaces, an even greater number of organisations are aiming to reduce the incidence of health and safety incidents and workplace accidents.  Strange how the threat of financial reward or penalty adds impetus to doing the right thing for your staff! While the environment… Continue reading The Health & Safety Indicator (HSI) for assessing safe workplaces

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