Most people make it up when they ask a potential employee questions in their job interview — perhaps you google the best questions to use or you just wing it and make conversation and hope for the best… I asked recruitment expert — Mark Fisher from
Workplace engagement
Common recruitment mistakes
At the moment, you need to be on the top of your game when it comes to recruitment — competition has never been hotter and to win the best people you need to win the recruitment process. We asked Business Changing client and recruitment veteran Mark
The recruitment crisis and how to win in it
Our recent Business Changing State of the Nation survey showed one thing very clearly: the issue of recruitment is one of the main issues business owners and senior managers are battling with right now. Finding the right talent, getting them to sign
Zac talks to the NZ Herald about Kiwi work/life balance
Last week Xero released a survey that found that 32 per cent of business owners didn't think the current legal requirement of four weeks' annual leave, or six weeks including stat days, was enough. Aimee Shaw from the NZ Herald interviewed me to find
Zac talks to Mike Hosking
There's a lot of talk this week around cricket coach Gary Stead taking a holiday during the cricket season, alongside new research released around the amount of annual leave NZ employees want - 6 weeks, up from 4. I spoke to Mike Hosking on
A framework for challenging conversations
If you find challenging conversations, erm, challenging, this framework might help you - it's one a client of mine uses to keep him on track. For a more in-depth look at how to tackle a challenging conversation read this blog I wrote