Hiring
The Number One Reason New Employees Fail
There are a bunch of reasons why your new employee might fail. They don’t know what to do. They’re unclear of what’s expected of them. They haven’t been integrated into the culture of the business. Provided you’ve got the hiring part right, all these reasons can be chalked up...
Market Update: The War For Talent Begins
We launched our online salary survey What’s My Worth this month. As it turns out, our timing couldn’t have been better: remuneration for accounting roles in New Zealand is very fluid right now, and there’s a real void of up-to-date, real-time market information. The accounting market...
Good Recruiters Are (Very) Hard To Find
I’m recruiting. It’s tough. Good recruitment consultants are incredibly hard to find. Many people find it amusing that recruitment agencies struggle to find good recruitment consultants, but the reality is that sourcing exceptional consultants is the key business issue for practically every agency out there. So why...
The Best People For Contract Jobs Are….Contractors!
The great recession blurred the lines between contract and permanent recruitment. In an attempt to contain costs and mitigate risk, many businesses started hiring ‘permanent’ candidates for a mash-up of a true contract role (that is, an assignment with a specific, short-term remit), and a permanent...
Why You Should Learn To Love Writing Job Descriptions (Yes, Really!)
Next time you’re hiring, it’s worth spending the time it takes to write a great job description. Job descriptions are so much more than an HR box to be ticked. They’ll help you hire the right person, and they’re also an incredibly important tool for getting...
It’s Time We Started Using ‘That’ Word In Business
Talent. We don’t like using that word. Sir Ed would never have called himself talent. Yet talent is without a doubt the single most critical factor in business success. I spend a lot of time in California at Booktrack’s San Francisco Office (just ask my very considerate wife!), where we work with the biggest tech...
Good Things Happen When You Ditch The Shopping List
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware that hiring managers nowadays have a heck of a lot more choice when it comes to candidates than they did five years ago. If you’ve been hiring staff for long enough to remember the days when...
The Candidate Experience – 10 Things You Can Do To Make It Great
‘The Candidate Experience’ refers to the experience a candidate has from the moment they first read your vacancy ad, to the time they receive a rejection or a job offer. In the current era of hundreds, if not thousands, of applications for single jobs, many candidates...