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Onboarding Tips for Your New Hire’s First Week
Once your new hire accepts their employment contract and signs on the dotted line, a whole new phase begins – onboarding. An employee’s first week in the job is a crucial time in which he or she wi...
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3 Steps to Getting the Most Out of Reference Ch...
The reference check is an indispensable opportunity to find out more about a candidate from someone who has worked with them in the past and discover whether they’re really as great as they seemed ...
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What I’ve Learned One Year After a Career Change
It’s been about a year since I made a complete change in my career and joined the team at Beyond Recruitment. The experience, which I talked about in detail in my last blog, has really changed the ...
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Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
Workplace diversity has been a hotly debated topic for a long time, so there’s certainly no shortage of articles focused on it online! Add in New Zealand’s ageing workforce and our much-publicised ...
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Approaching Flexibility in the Workplace
Workplace flexibility. This is a conversation that’s been on the agenda for employers over the last decade and more, but only recently have we seen more organisations ‘walking the walk’ when it com...
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Changing Mindsets on Virtual Contracting
Recently, there has been a huge amount of transformation in the HR landscape, and the increasing number of projects means there is a growing demand for HR contractors to meet these requirements. Ho...
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A Closer Look at Tauranga’s Burgeoning Tech Sector
No longer can Tauranga be referred to as the geriatric capital of New Zealand. Today, the city is full of professionals and young families, and has a median age of 38 – the same as the rest of New ...
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Team Culture: Respect, not Harmony
Over the last few years I have been lucky to have had an awesome external trainer and mentor who has a strong background in the recruitment industry. One of the biggest learnings for me over this t...
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Reference Checking: A Referee's Perspective
Recently, I spent 30 minutes on the phone with a referee, and although it was obvious that they were trying to be helpful, what eventuated was the perfect example of what not to do when providing a...
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Overcoming Talent Shortages: A Flexible Way of ...
In our recently released Economic & Labour report, the ongoing struggle for talent again emerged as a key issue for employers. While it's evident that this is a major barrier faced by New Zealand b...
