In June 2016, Helen Brand, the CEO of ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) launched a report from an international study which identified seven attributes essential to success for accountants and finance professionals. Since then, we have presented a guide to accountants across New Zealand on how to assess whether accounting & finance candidates are… Continue reading Hiring the Perfect Professional. What should you be looking for?
After twelve months of intensive design, construction and peer review involving accounting, web and software expertise from Europe and New Zealand, it was with great pleasure that we launched the website and online testing platform for our new sister company Accountests Ltd on 15th July. Accountests has been created to fill a widely felt void… Continue reading Accountests is Launched in New Zealand
This year, we have seen a dramatic increase in new clients, especially among businesses that last year might have described themselves as ‘start-ups’ & are now best described as rapidly growing successful outfits. As well as using testing & assessment when recruiting new senior staff, the savvy operators of these businesses have also extended the… Continue reading Where are successful businesses using Psychometric Testing reports in 2018?
MoralDNA™ is a personality profile which was co-designed by Professor Roger Steare, The Corporate Philosopher, and Pavlos Stamboulides, Director of Psycholate. It is free of charge for personal use, and the profile it creates is designed to help you understand your moral values, how you prefer to make good decisions and ‘do the right thing’.… Continue reading What is your Moral DNA?
What do most organisations use personality profiling for? In our experience, ninety percent of the profiling we do is in the recruitment and selection space. At the basic end, employers look for reasons to, or not to, hire a candidate by exploring the potential risks uncovered by personality questionnaires. Our more sophisticated clients take the… Continue reading Using Personality Profiling to get Joint Ventures & Equity Partnerships off the Launch Pad
Kiwi Bank’s creation of c.150 permanent jobs in a region that is going backwards on most economic indicators is perhaps the best news we have had the pleasure of reporting for several years. People Central has handled in excess of 200 permanent job losses through redundancy support in the last 2 years and we know… Continue reading Contact Centre Impact on Regional Economies
The past few months have been particularly rewarding for us in taking our long standing partnership with the regional Ministry of Social Development (MSD) office into new grounds of preparing this regions potential workforce for employment in contact centre environments. Drawing on the experiences of introducing contact centres to economically depressed regions in South Wales… Continue reading Working in Partnership to Prepare a Contact Centre Workforce
How should an employer go about assessing a contact centre candidate’s likelihood of succeeding in that environment, or in smaller scale customer services roles where the bulk of communications with customers take place over the phone or internet? Candidate assessment suites designed specifically for these environments tend to focus on a blend of abilities essential… Continue reading Assessing Contact Centre & Customer Service Candidates
Just to get 2015 into perspective, if you’re HR people are still flapping about on how to communicate and engage with Gen-Y, here’s a few shocks for you: Gen-Y will form the largest part of the global workforce in 2015 27% of this group are already in management positions 3% are in senior management positions… Continue reading Workplace Trends for 2015
Accessing Supervised Ability Tests Online When it comes to predicting whether a candidate has the capability to perform the cognitive tasks essential to success in any job, ability testing has one of the strongest correlations of effectiveness. With ability testing suites available for almost every function and level, from Industrial and Process Staff to Senior… Continue reading Online Ability Testing – Big Step Forward in Availability & Efficiency
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