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Case Study: How COVID-19 Changed the Way We Rec...

​The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for businesses across all sectors and it can be easy to focus on the negative aspects. But there have also been some really positive things to come out o...

Struggling to Recruit the Best Talent? Here's W...

​The current recruitment market is particularly challenging for employers, making traditional recruitment approaches less effective without some additional innovation. To stay competitive in New Ze...

Is the Salary I’m Offering Competitive Enough?

​With the job market on a strong rebound after the latest COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccination drive, the basic consideration in job hunting – the salary or hourly rate of a role – has re-emerged aga...

Living In and Beyond the Pandemic: Insights fro...

​​The past two years has been rife with uncertainty, and although rising vaccination rates and loosening restrictions provide a light at the end of the tunnel, it’s clear that COVID-19 will continu...

The Great Resignation: What’s the Fuss?

​I have been chatting to a lot of HR leaders and reading a lot of articles from Australia and the US over the past few months through lockdown, and the topic that came up again and again was the “G...

Are Senior Citizens an Untapped Candidate Pool?

​October is the month I turn 55. If 60 is the new 40, does that mean that 55 equates to the new 35? ​With many people reflecting on what they want to do with their career in the years leading up ...

From I-Shaped to T-Shaped: Changes in Professio...

​The IT industry has displayed an increased vigour since the turn of the century. The world has seen radical changes, with technology touching just about everything in everyday life. For the last t...

Talent Shortages In and Beyond the Pandemic: In...

​The past 12 months have largely been a period of economic recovery, with New Zealand on the whole faring better amid the pandemic than many of its global peers. However, businesses are now facing ...

Recruiters are the Canaries of the Job Market C...

​I write this in the first few working hours of the latest (August) lockdown. This one will be different. Not only will it (hopefully) be shorter than the initial Alert Level 4 lockdown in 2020, bu...

HR Market Update: Short Skilled or Short-Sighted?

We have now closed out the first half of 2021 and it’s hard to believe we are a year on from the original lockdowns. It is fair to say that this has been a busy period for many people across the co...

How to Attract High Performers

In the current candidate short market, many organisations are settling for the best they can find of those that apply for the role – often the person that meets the greatest portion of the criteria...

Diversity and Inclusion in a Candidate-Short Ma...

Let’s face it – it is difficult enough to ensure you follow diversity and inclusion (D&I) processes when you are recruiting in a candidate-rich market, but it is even more so in a candidate-sho...

When Inclusion Comes First, Diversity Thrives: ...

To create a workplace where people can thrive, leaders must first focus on getting the soil right. Diverse plants in unhealthy soil will eventually wither and die. Your company culture is like soil...

Inclusion: The Key to Unleashing the Real Power...

In our globalised business landscape, diversity is everywhere, and creating a diverse workforce is now vital for an organisation's success. While the multifaceted nature of New Zealand’s talent poo...

Will the Professional Talent Supply Join Housin...

If you are a corporate hiring manager, recruiter or skilled job seeker, you will have noticed that the demand for professional talent feels like it is reaching a frenzy point out there in job-land....

Winning the War for Talent

The New Zealand employment market has flipped on its head in recent months, with widespread candidate shortages and a huge demand for skilled people making recruiting in 2021 a major challenge. Bot...

Enhancing the Customer Experience for Better Bu...

The business world has changed a lot over the past few decades, and never more so than in the last year. Customers are more scrupulous than ever and won’t hesitate to switch brands in the blink of ...

How to Capture the Most Value from Your Hybrid ...

With post-pandemic challenges driving significant shifts in the way companies operate, the hybrid work model has been recognised as the next big disruption in the business landscape as organisation...

Competency-Based Hiring: The Secret to Stronger...

At a time when the future of an organisation often depends on having the right people at the forefront, competency-based hiring is the solution to appointing leaders who will guide a business to su...

Culture, Cohesion and Resilience: What Your Bus...

We recently held our final webinar for the year to launch our annual Beyond Recruitment Economic & Labour Report, and it was incredibly insightful. The event solidified for me how lucky I am to...