How can you modernize your Recruitment Approach?
Are you still looking for job candidates the old way? Many organisations wait until there is a position that needs to be filled and asking candidates on your website or on an online job board to send in their applications or resumes by email? That might have been...
The Art of Listening in an Employment Interview
The art of listening or not listening can be the job qualification that sets you apart from your competition for better or worse. Listening will get the interviewer's attention because interviewers remember employment candidates who are memorable for the right...
Engaging Millennials Job Seekers
International consulting firm Deloitte published a study in 2016 that confirms and dispels many myths of Generation Y (born 1981-1996). While New Zealand’s Millenials might be different than their global counterparts, there are many similarities. With over 1 million...
Who is Your Ideal Employee?
Let’s begin by stating that “ideal” could mean different things to different people. An employee that is late for work every so often because he has to drive his child to daycare but is a high performer might not be ideal in absolute terms but the intangibles that he...
How to Succeed in a Job Interview
Did you wake up late and barely made it to the interview on time? Or did you rehearse all of the possible questions that would be asked – with your cat Prudence (its John Lennon’s fault) only to be caught off guard by the infamous “Where do you see yourself in 5...
Why the Recruitment Industry Needs to Change
While change in any industry is inevitable (have you visited a video store lately?) in most cases change is driven by market or social forces. Just think how the process of digitization accelerated the growing trend of commoditization, driving down costs for luxury...
Career Changing Guide for IT Professionals
So it’s time for a career change. Your old career just isn’t doing it for you anymore. You’re in a rut or you might be about to fall in one. You need to break free and start over again but….where do you start? There isn’t one way to start your search. Before you get...
Giving Back to the Neonatal Trust New Zealand
As startup that wants to create a business that challenges the status quo by constantly evolving and give back to the community, the Referral Network believes in leveraging its skills and experience to help those who are less fortunate. Others talk, we do. Neil...
Tomorrow’s Leaders Take on New Challenges and New Opportunities
There’s a revolution that’s happening in the world. We’re not talking about that kind of revolution, but a growing workforce (Statistics New Zealand). Trends show that working-age group demographic, 15 to 64 year olds, will grow steadily for the next 30 years, so that...