Career
Where is the top talent hiding right now?
Currently, the Consult team is the busiest it has ever been in our 11+ years of operations. In fact, we’ve currently got 54 jobs we still have to advertise on our website - such is the recruitment activity from our clients. Luckily (for us, and our...
The Best Law Firms Develop their Senior Talent
Law firms are finally catching onto the fact that to retain their best senior lawyers - they must continue to develop their non-technical skills. The best lawyers are (or should be…) curious and hungry to learn and develop non-technical skills. Law is not all about precedents, snails in...
Why a Returnity Policy is a big part of your talent plan
Without a doubt - the best decision a company can make is to ensure it doesn’t lose it’s best talent. Recruiting new people has loads of costs - money, time, staff morale and opportunity cost, so it makes sense to look after people so they...
Why great NZ companies are failing to hire great talent.
We are sitting at 4.2% unemployment. It doesn’t get any lower. This is creating issues for any employer looking for their next great hire. We have seen some great companies have job offers turned down in the past 6 months. Worse even - often these (would be)...
10 Life Skills Learnt from Recruiting for the best brands
We call Anna “Straight Bat Brooksie” in the office - because she says it how it is. Which is a great thing because sometimes in recruitment - you are told one thing but its not necessarily the way it really is. So we thought we would get...
Stop Arriving Early If You Want That Job!
With Auckland’s traffic (and the current CBD roadworks shambles), we are accustomed to people tending to run a bit late. “Sorry I am late, the traffic is terrible” must be uttered hundreds of times a day across this (otherwise epic) city. We totally get that...
How To Implement A Flexible Working Plan
It’s currently a candidate’s market. In specific areas, there is a huge demand for talent and multiple job offer situations are becoming the norm. As a result - organisations are having to pull out all the bells and whistles to try to attract the best...
Satisfaction Through Mastery
I have recently taken up an advisory board role for the Tech Futures Lab, and came across a great blog from the lab on What’s your why? 'Purpose' is the new black. It discusses the great Japanese concept of Ikiagai - which is a Japanese term for "a...