Posts Tagged ‘New Zealand’
Interview with 2016 SARA (NZ) Recruitment Leader of the Year: Brien Keegan of Randstad
In mid-November last year, one week after the equivalent Australian awards, Seek announced the winners of the New Zealand SARAs. The winner of the Recruitment Leader of the Year was Randstad’s Brien Keegan. After completing his undergraduate degree at Massey University in 2001, Brien worked at Telecom New Zealand for just over 18 months before…
Read MoreHays: Still a force but Japanese invaders pose new threat
Last week I wrote about the recognition Hays Australia recently received as a top performing business (using the measure of return on shareholders’ funds). This week I have a closer look at the trends of the local Hays business over the past five years. The information I have listed below is for the combined Australia…
Read MoreNZ update: Construction recruiters in Auckland driving flash new cars
One of the best indicators of a country’s economic performance is the level of recruitment agency activity. Whether it’s strong organic growth or hot levels of M&A activity, you can be sure that recruitment agency profit levels make new markets attractive for aggressive agency owners with deep pockets or strong credit ratings. I am…
Read MoreNZ employment update: First fall in three years
Yesterday the most recent quarterly update for employment in New Zealand was released (Statistics New Zealand publishes labour market data quarterly, whereas the Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes the equivalent data monthly). The result was the first backward step in the New Zealand labour market in three years. Category Sept 2015 (000s) …
Read MoreQueenstown’s #2 rated place to eat: A lesson in focus
I have just returned from a family holiday in Queenstown. I enjoyed my five days in Queenstown at the 2014 RCSA Conference so much that I committed to return as soon as I could, with the family in tow. Amongst the many adventure pursuits of the trip (I still have a bruised backside from my…
Read MoreThe F Word: To use or not to use? The sequel
Well, didn’t last week’s blog The F Word: To use or not to use? cause a stir. Within hours of the blog going live, I had a lively social media exchange with Vend’s Talent & Innovation Manager, Troy Hammond and various other interested parties, all with something to say on this (clearly) polarising topic. Troy wrote a blog in…
Read MoreNew Zealand’s economy leaves Australia in its wake
While Australia bemoans a massive Budget deficit and deep cuts to many areas of science, welfare and education, our cousins across the Tasman are finding things are much rosier. Courtesy of information from Statistics New Zealand and Deloitte Access Economics, here’s a summary of the current New Zealand economy: Economic growth prospects are suddenly looking…
Read MoreGood news all round for New Zealand employment
Statistics New Zealand only releases labour market information every quarter unlike in Australia where the ABS releases labour market data every month. The most recent release for the March 2013 quarter highlighted some excellent news for the New Zealand economy. Statistics New Zealand reported that, nationally, in the March 2013 quarter, compared with…
Read MoreNew Zealand migration: Across the Tasman they still come
Is Australia in danger of being overrun by a tidal wave of New Zealanders? Recent data from both Statistics New Zealand and the ABS would indicate that Australia appears to be the pot of gold shining brightly at the end of the rainbow that hovers over the Tasman Sea. Consider: The net…
Read MoreNZ Government Recruitment: It’s game on
Just prior to Easter, my New Zealand source, Tweet Throat, provided me with a spot of significant NZ recruitment news. The AoG (All of Government) recruitment tender was formally launched on Tuesday 3 April 2012 at the Ministry of Economic Development. Lead mandarin, Daniel Craig look-alike, Mark Ansell told the assembled eighty recruiters…
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