Recruitment Strategies & Tips
Helping New Zealand businesses with recruitment process strategies & tips.Phone Screen Interview Guide
The phone screen interview stage is an important part of the selection process. It typically checks candidate's work experience, work history, availability and communication skills. You can tell a lot from a phone screen interview, such as is the individual genuinely...
read moreInterview Guide for Hiring Managers
Whether you are new to recruiting or looking for a guide to help your hiring managers learn how to interview, you'll find some useful interview tips here. Contents: The Interview Question preparation Conducting the interview Evaluating the interview Benefits of second...
read more3 Tips To Find Talent
When looking to find talent for your job vacancy, it makes sense to consider someone who is successfully performing in a similar role. These individuals may be classified as 'Semi-Passive' candidates. (Learn more here > Target Audiences). Although not actively...
read moreJob Advert – How To Promote To Your Target Audience
If you’re having trouble attracting quality job applicants, it might be time to step back and rethink your advertising campaign. To attract quality applications you need to promote the job opportunity where your target audience hangs out. After all they can’t apply if...
read moreInfographic – Online Sourcing Channels
Define and reach out to your target audience via multiple online sourcing channels. The Mixed Online Sourcing Channels infographic below provides a checklist of sourcing options. Chilli Factor Recruitment Software provides the system and templates to create...
read moreRecruiting: Job Brief Tips
There is a difference between a role’s Position Description and a Job Brief. Which do you use when recruiting? While the position description is important in the hiring process especially at employment agreement stage, a detailed Job Brief is key to the success of...
read moreStart Building Your Talent Pools Today
In today's labour market skill shortage is a common recruitment problem across most industries. (See NZ skill shortage list.) How long is it taking you to fill some of your harder to fill job vacancies? If listed in the NZ immediate and long term skill shortage...
read moreA Simple Checklist To Set Up Your In-house Recruitment Process
When bringing your recruitment in-house, one of the first things to do is to define your recruitment process. What is a recruitment process? A recruitment process provides a clear road map for both recruiter and potential candidates to ensure the end result is hiring...
read more6 Tips How To Write Compelling Job Adverts
Are you struggling to write an online job advert? It does take some practise, however if you follow the six tips listed below you'll be on the fast track to writing compelling online job adverts. 1. Did you know you have less than 30 seconds to hook the candidate's...
read moreAre you selling your job opportunity?
Have you included the selling points of your job opportunity in your job advert? What are selling points? This is the information candidates want to know about. It's the "WIIFM" (what's in it for me). Why? By not including selling points in your job advert, you won’t...
read moreIntroducing Chilli Factor Recruitment Management Software
Whether you recruit yourself or use a recruitment agency, recruitment continues to be a time consuming and costly exercise for most companies. Short of time, talent, recruitment capability and budget are four common reasons why recruitment fails. The fifth is not...
read more12 Steps to Hot Recruitment Results
Recruitment Tips for SMEs The following guide outlines 12 key steps to achieving hot recruitment results: Step How 1 Identify Your Hiring Need Create a detailed job brief and clear expectations for your job vacancy by defining the purpose of the job and what you want...
read moreDo You Know Why Your Staff Are Leaving?
Having staff members leave can be tough on your business. And while it can be hard getting to the bottom of an employee’s reason for leaving, a proper exit interview can help you improve the experience of current and future employees, and ultimately reduce staff...
read moreNow is the time to bring recruitment in-house
Did you know... Major global skill shortages are widely anticipated by industry experts. Prior to the global recession, some predicted America would face a resource shortfall for around 10 million jobs by 2010. The time-frame may be altered but in the not too distant...
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