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
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
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… Continue reading People Central’s Clients Benefit from Major New Investment in Personality Profiling Services
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
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