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?
A recent UK survey of senior HR people revealed that whilst 53% of them ranked talent shortages as the biggest threat to their businesses continuity, only 19% felt they were ready to face the challenges of acute staff turnover and candidate scarcity. Piers Hudson, senior director at Gartner HR makes practical suggestions of how businesses… Continue reading Learning to Make Peace with High Staff Turnover
International recruitment consultancy Robert Half reported that 46% of the businesses surveyed to develop a recently released report had made a bad hire in the past 12 months, with small businesses feeling the greatest impact. At 61%, the biggest factor leading to a hire considered ‘bad’ was new staff not having the technical skills required… Continue reading Businesses Regret Half of New Hires
The knock-on effects of unfilled vacancies on existing staff were largely expected by employers, but this survey puts those effects in stark and alarming actual experiences. While the survey was conducted in the UK, we could confidently expect the findings to be mirrored in New Zealand. More than a third of staff surveyed reported unmanageable… Continue reading Staff Shortages Causing Unmanageable Workloads for Third of Workers, Survey Finds
More research coming out of the UK, but equally applicable in New Zealand from the daily conversations we have with HR/People managers and business owners. When ECI Partners polled 202 HR Managers in the UK summer of 2022, almost a fifth cited their biggest hiring obstacle as a lack of technical skills and knowledge among… Continue reading Skills gap is HR’s biggest hiring challenge, research suggests
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
At People Central, we’ve recently been hearing more and more about the topic of “candidate commitment” from clients who are dealing with candidates pulling out of final-stage selection processes. You know who I mean; the candidates that seem really interested in a role, say all of the right things and then at the last moment,… Continue reading Assessing Candidate Committment
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