Accounting Skills Tests Request After many months of R&D we are nearing the end of a process of developing NZ Specific Accounting Skills Tests to assist employers in determining current skills/knowledge and development priorities for recruitment and development purposes. We are now at the stage of pilot testing the draft tests with some qualified and… Continue reading Accounting Skills Tests Request
Let’s be blunt for a moment. Exceptional sales candidate’s are few and far between and when they enter the job market, they can choose their next employer to a greater extent than most. In spite of this, many managers and recruiters still approach the selection process as if they somehow hold all the cards and… Continue reading Sales Managers & Recruiters: Why would that top sales candidate want to work for you?
I first read the terms ‘Candidate Abuse’ and ‘Interview Abuse’, last month on BBC Capital and immediately had to know more. The article catalogued a series of experiences of US and UK job applicants being put through tortuous and protracted multi-stage selection process, only to come second place, or even be offered a job with… Continue reading Interview and Candidate Abuse
Perhaps one of the reasons some people complain about the perceived high cost of personality profiling is that they consistently fail to utilise the full value of the information they have gathered in the selection process. From the employers perspective, most of the time the profile report gains the full attention of the selection panel… Continue reading Making the Most of Personality Profile Reports
Most readers will already be users of our flagship personality questionnaire, 15FQ+, arguably the most comprehensive personality assessment adapted for New Zealand’s unique population and incorporating Belbin Team Roles, Leadership, Subordinate and Influencing Styles into one profile. This month heralds a significant step forward in the availability of the 15FQ+ to online users. Until now,… Continue reading Positive Changes to 15FQ+
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
Belinda Parkes, Freelance Journalist, April 2017 Do you trust your gut instinct when it comes to hiring? If you do, you could be giving the job to the person you like best, not necessarily the best person for the job. There is a difference. All of us carry unconscious biases that influence our perceptions and… Continue reading The case against hiring like-minded people
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