Leadership
The Questions Top Talent Will Ask You in an Interview Right Now
Now, I’m not saying that I was a ‘top grad’ by any stretch of the imagination. Graduating in a class of about 700 from the University of Otago, I headed to Auckland armed with my Marketing and Japanese degrees (20 years later I am FINALLY...
Why Internal Recruitment is Struggling Right Now
I am totally showing my age - because I have seen this before - it was the recruitment glory days of 2005 - low unemployment, huge demand for talent and a very, very busy recruitment market. And we are back here again - 2019 has been...
SARA Recruitment Leader of the Year – Angela Cameron
For the second time this year we are super proud of the achievements of our CEO, Angela Cameron! She has followed up her RCSA NZ Recruitment Leader of the Year award earlier in the year, by winning the NZ Recruitment Leader of the Year for...
What the Best HR Talent has in Spades
To do a HR role well is incredibly hard. Pulled in a multitude of directions, your typical HR expert will wear a bunch of different hats - employment relations, union negotiations, REM analysis, leadership & training, employment and people policies, culture, wellness, HRIS and the...
The Money or the Honey?
I’m a big believer in creating roles and a working environment that ticks all the boxes for our staff at Consult – not just dropping the money into their bank accounts once a month. Other employers are on board with this too… non-cash benefits and...
Introducing Richard Gray-Smith
Richard Gray-Smith has over 10 years’ experience in sales, marketing and category recruitment, specifically within the FMCG and consumer industries. He has joined Consult to lead our Sales & Marketing and Business Support Teams, and we are super excited to have him, and his expertise,...
How it Feels to be the New Person at Work
It was a busy week at Consult last week, with seven people starting all at the same time - it was a hive of excitement (and nerves!). It was a week with a lot of meetings and learnings and we are so excited to have...
Just Be Kind
It’s been a terrible week. Devastating. My family have been grappling with poor health news about someone dear to us - a kind and gentle, special person. Yet while for us time stands still in shock, for the rest of the world - life goes...