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
Adaptive testing has been around for a few years now, but many HR professionals and business owners remain unaware of their existence or application, so here is a quick introduction to the concept and its application in your business: Adaptive tests are the next level in the evolution of testing people’s abilities and skills, and… Continue reading Introduction to Adaptive Testing
The General Reasoning Test (GRT2) battery of Numerical, Verbal and Abstract reasoning is one of the most widely used ability test batteries, with over 40,000 administered in New Zealand. This is the test chosen by New Zealand Police to sharpen up police recruitment practices after criticisms in 2006/7. The test is particularly useful for identifying… Continue reading New Zealand’s Most Popular Ability Test Battery Available Unsupervised & Online
Our extensive range of almost 2,000 IT and Software Skills Test Titles has just taken another step forward with the release of the Microsoft Office 2010 suite, providing simulated testing at basic, intermediate and advanced levels. Where jobs require a level of knowledge and competency in specific software, these tests take the guesswork out of… Continue reading Microsoft Office 2010 Skills Tests Launched
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
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… Continue reading People Central in the News – Sustainable Employment
With current times bringing in high numbers of applicants from far and wide for most jobs, and most recruiting managers facing considerable pressure to manage time and costs, using phone-interviews to screen candidates is very appealing. When used effectively, phone-interviews bring all the benefits of trimming down that pile of CV’s into the final few… Continue reading Making the most of Telephone Interviews
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… Continue reading Recruitment & Development Masterclass – Two Case Studies on Absolute Best Practice
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