I was talking to the owner of a small Chartered Accounting business last week who told me that they were so desperately short staffed that they would “literally take on anybody” who applied for their vacant accountant role. A few days before, a Practice Manager in a larger accounting firm asked for a refund on… Continue reading Keeping Selection Standards High in a Candidate-Scarce Labour Market
Good candidates are hard to find, and when you do find them they typically have other interviews lined up and even job offers on the table already. You need to act fast if you’re going to beat those competing job offers, yet still feel satisfied that you have made a thorough assessment of whether that… Continue reading Act Fast. How to Make a Confident Job Offer After Just One Interview
With candidates being so hard to find, and employers making generous counter-offers to stop those thinking of leaving from doing so, what can you do to determine whether someone showing interest in joining your business is a genuine contender, or just gaming the candidate-driven employment market of 2022? Build these questions into your initial phone… Continue reading Assessing Candidate Commitment
During my HR Manager days, I used to think Transparent Interviews were ‘cheating’; not taken seriously, used by public sector bodies to give internal applicants unfair advantage over external applicants. The list went on and I wasn’t a fan. In our continued world of candidate scarcity, I and most of my clients are regularly reviewing… Continue reading Time to Revisit Transparent Interviews?
This isn’t a scientific study, but rather observations from over 80 personality profile reports fed back to clients and candidates since mid-March when life changed dramatically for just about everybody. If you use personality profiles as part of your selection & development process, here’s some ideas on accounting for the effect of a global pandemic… Continue reading Personality profile reports. Adjusting your interpretations in the current climate
At People Central, we like to share emerging innovative practices with our clients and the wider community of people who like making thoroughly informed recruitment and selection decisions, so here’s a practical step you can take today to increase the effectiveness of your selection process: After shooting from relative obscurity to indispensable communications software during… Continue reading Addressing the Risks of Unsupervised Candidate Testing – Zoom to the Rescue!
As most of you know, our Testing & Assessment Consultant, Mel, works remotely from her home in Arizona, where she lives with her family – these past few months, she’s actively been a part of the Black Lives Matter movement in her community where she has protested for the end of police brutality towards African… Continue reading Black Lives Matter, Unconscious Bias & Recruitment – What Can Employers Do?
Remember the lead-up to the 2017 election, when broadcaster Mark Richardson caused an uproar when he asked the then Leader of the Opposition, Jacinda Ardern, if she had plans to have children? The commonly-held view was that this question was outrageous. While a broadcaster has the liberty to ask a range of questions, an employer… Continue reading Can you ask that? Illegal interview questions revealed
There’s plenty to consider when you’re bringing a new employee onboard – from meeting the team to being set up with the right tools. But what about when this whole process has to be done at a distance? Hiring and onboarding new employees remotely comes with its own set of challenges and considerations. There are the… Continue reading Onboarding a new employee remotely? Use this checklist…
With the working lives of so many Kiwis impacted by COVID-19, it’s understandable that candidates’ priorities are changing too. Notably, job security has emerged as a strong focus for candidates. In fact, 2 in 3 candidates feel that because of COVID-19, job security is more important than salary, research conducted on behalf of SEEK shows.… Continue reading What Matters to Candidates Now? How to Secure Top Talent in a Cautious Market
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