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- Unimpressive Results Using ChatGPT to Cheat Psychometrics
- Your feelings of Imposter Syndrome: Is it the system, or is it you?
- Assessing Someone’s Suitability for Remote/Home Working
- Skills gap is HR’s biggest hiring challenge, research suggests
- Staff Shortages Causing Unmanageable Workloads for Third of Workers, Survey Finds
- Businesses Regret Half of New Hires
- Learning to Make Peace with High Staff Turnover
- Time to Revisit Transparent Interviews?
- Assessing Candidate Commitment
- Act Fast. How to Make a Confident Job Offer After Just One Interview
- Keeping Selection Standards High in a Candidate-Scarce Labour Market
- Testing in Lockdown
- How to Disable Adobe Flash
- The Most In-Demand Skills & Roles for 2021
- Assessing Candidate Committment
- What Matters to Candidates Now? How to Secure Top Talent in a Cautious Market
- Recruiting Sales Superstars
- Onboarding a new employee remotely? Use this checklist…
- Assessing Contact Centre & Customer Service Candidates
- Can you ask that? Illegal interview questions revealed
- Black Lives Matter, Unconscious Bias & Recruitment – What Can Employers Do?
- Addressing the Risks of Unsupervised Candidate Testing – Zoom to the Rescue!
- Personality profile reports. Adjusting your interpretations in the current climate
- Time to cash-in on your psychometric investments
- Sharpening up your phone & video interview technique
- Managing Counter Offers
- Grief in the Workplace: When It’s Not Business as Usual
- Introducing Podium Testing Suite
- New Zealand’s Most In Demand Jobs & Skills for 2020
- Creating a Culture That Attracts (and Keeps) Top Performers
- Don’t Give Up On the Golden Rule in the Workplace
- Avoid lying with these clever answers to curly interview questions
- Smart Time Hacks for High Volume Recruiting
- 50k in debt with student loans, a useless degree and no job prospects…
- Poor Team Dynamics?
- Should Your Pay Policy Be More Transparent?
- The Most-Wanted Work Perks in New Zealand
- How to Pick Out the Sales-Superstars from the Rest when Recruiting sales staff
- Want to Close the Pay Gap? Pay Transparency Will Help
- Office Etiquette For New Grads
- Recruiting Candidates for Warehousing, Factory & Process Oriented Jobs?
- How to Work with a Square Peg, Round Hole Employee
- Dealing with Stress as a Manager – By Marie Miguel
- A Manager’s Role in Turning Around Underperforming Team Members
- Making the most of Telephone Interviews
- New Year, New Opportunities
- How to Consistently Hire Talented Salespeople
- Why Recruiting in December Can Give You A Competitive Edge
- NZ Herald Article on People Central – The Business of Personality Testing For Recruiting
- Health & Safety Starts At Recruitment
- Three Practical Steps to Sharpen Up Sales Staff Recruitment
- Why The Open-Plan Office is a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea
- 5 Ways to Start the Mental Health Conversation
- Should You Hire An Overqualified Candidate?
- 5 Key Benefits of Real-Time Performance Feedback
- Valuing Abstract Reasoning Tests
- Why Talented People Don’t Use Their Strengths
- Why Do Some Job Adverts Put Women Off Applying?
- It’s All In The Details: Testing Candidates Clerical Aptitude
- 5 tips on finding candidates for hard-to-fill roles
- Leaders From LinkedIn, Amazon, and Tesla Say These Are the 5 Trends Shaping Talent Development
- Data Collection, Storage and Privacy Policy for People Central
- Are you 100% certain that your candidates are proficient in MS Office?
- Bolster your recruitment talent pool by overcoming bias and embracing diversity
- Ready To Up Your Hiring Game?
- Cultivating Grit: The Secret Ingredient of Successful People and Organisations
- The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Candidate Experience
- Using Personality Profiling to get Joint Ventures & Equity Partnerships off the Launch Pad
- Where are successful businesses using Psychometric Testing reports in 2018?
- Hiring the Perfect Professional. What should you be looking for?
- The case against hiring like-minded people
- Unemployable Graduates. A global crisis and how we might fix it
- Making the Most of Personality Profile Reports
- Sales Managers & Recruiters: Why would that top sales candidate want to work for you?
- Online Candidate Testing & Assessment. Balancing benefits against risks
- Take Part in Building New Zealand’s First HR Skills Tests
- New Zealand & Australia Candidates top in Asia Pacific for CV Embellishment
- Online Ability Testing – Big Step Forward in Availability & Efficiency
- Workplace Trends for 2015
- Working in Partnership to Prepare a Contact Centre Workforce
- Contact Centre Impact on Regional Economies
- What is your Moral DNA?
- Accountests is Launched in New Zealand
- Drop the ‘Busy Excuse’!
- Positive Changes to 15FQ+
- Interview and Candidate Abuse
- Accounting Skills Tests Request
- The downside of being nice at work
- Using Psychometric Testing in Redundancy Selection
- Why team building doesn’t work in tough economic times
- Should I Quit My Job?
- Hawke’s Bay’s Top Recruitment Consultancy Re-Branded
- Up to $5k of Funding Available to Employers Recruiting Staff on Benefits
- Beyond the Appraisal – Nicholas Roi
- People Central win MSD Contract for 2013 Redundancy Support
- CEO and Director Selection and Assessment
- Managing the Risk of Hiring Staff in Retail
- The Health & Safety Indicator (HSI) for assessing safe workplaces
- HRINZ Leadership Pathways Event – 6th September, Hastings
- Microsoft Office 2010 Skills Tests Launched
- New Zealand’s Most Popular Ability Test Battery Available Unsupervised & Online
- Introduction to Adaptive Testing
- 100% Subsidised Support for Redundancies in Hawke’s Bay
- What is holding New Zealand back in Identifying Talent in Staff & Candidates?
- Managing Out-of-Region Candidate’s & Off-Site Staff
- HR leaders initiate the launch of the profession‘s first Hawke’s Bay HRINZ branch
- Securing the next step on your career ladder
- What is your career & business worth to you?
- People Central in the News – NZ Herald 17th November 2010
- Recruitment & Development Masterclass – Two Case Studies on Absolute Best Practice
- People Central in the News – Sustainable Employment
- People Central’s Clients Benefit from Major New Investment in Personality Profiling Services
- Hot Tip – Managing Absenteeism
- Sales Manager Guide to Choosing & Using Psychometrics in Recruitment
- What is Your Career Worth to You?
- Recommended Book – Tough Interview Questions and how to Answer Them
- Quick Buyers Guide to Using & Choosing Assessments in New Zealand
- A New Years Resolution for Sales People
- Is Your Career Worth $370?
- At Last – An MYOB Skills Test!
- Questions for Sales Staff Interviews
- More Candidates, More Choice & More Risk
- Ramp up your sales force
- ROI for Businesses using Outplacement & Career Transition Services
- Bridging the skills gap with Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga
- Four Tips for Using Telephone Screening Interviews Effectively
- Top Tips for Candidates when faced with Testing & Assessment in Recruitment
- Over 800 New Ability, Skills & Aptitude Tests Added to the People Central Portfolio
- Addressing Staff & Skills Shortages in Hawke’s Bay
We deliver staff recruitment, selection, assessment and development solutions that range from simply adding a psychometric test to an interview, to managing large scale team assessment projects and every step in between.
Because we’re not tied to one supplier or publisher, we can offer you the assurance that the advice we provide is based on the best solution for you rather than the closest fit from just one provider’s toolkit.
People Central delivers results for a diverse range of clients including large corporates within agribusiness, the finance, retail and primary industry sectors, law firms, real estate, tourism, recruitment agencies, management consultancies, not for profit organisations and public sector bodies.
Our Mission & Values
Adding Value
We only engage in work that will add tangible value to our clients business. This will enhance the effectiveness of their staff, enable them to make strong recruitment decisions and raise their reputations as employers of choice
Professional
Every customer will receive a service exceeding their expectations. We commit to our professional development to ensure clients have cutting edge people management tools at their finger tips.
Quality
All our services will be tailored to the customers’ individual needs, and delivered using only tried, tested, reliable and valid methods and tools. Psychometric assessments and tests, and other people assessment exercises must be recognised as having passed strict criteria by Occupational Psychology bodies before being used or recommended by us.
Transparent
Every person that comes into contact with us receives valuable transparent communications to aid their career development. We ensure that our clients receive clear and accurate information on our services, capabilities, price and service delivery.
Adding Value
We only engage in work that will add tangible value to our clients business. This will enhance the effectiveness of their staff, enable them to make strong recruitment decisions and raise their reputations as employers of choice
Professional
Every customer will receive a service exceeding their expectations. We commit to our professional development to ensure clients have cutting edge people management tools at their finger tips.
Quality
All our services will be tailored to the customers’ individual needs, and delivered using only tried, tested, reliable and valid methods and tools. Psychometric assessments and tests, and other people assessment exercises must be recognised as having passed strict criteria by Occupational Psychology bodies before being used or recommended by us.
Transparent
Every person that comes into contact with us receives valuable transparent communications to aid their career development. We ensure that our clients receive clear and accurate information on our services, capabilities, price and service delivery.