12th
Jun
The Subtle Art Of Salary Negotiation
‘Adept at negotiating salary’ is one requirement you’ll never see on a job listing, but the art of negotiation is a sought-after quality among candidates. According to Robin Pinkley, co-author of Get Paid What You’re Worth, people who attempt to negotiate their salary in a constructive way’ are perceived more favourably than those who don’t,… read more
Categorised as: Career Development, Job Seeker Advice
1st
Jun
Preparing For A Career Discussion With Your Manager
The annual performance review is an apprehensive time for any employee, but it also represents an opportunity to take stock of your career thus far and set new goals for the future. To help you prepare for the next one, we’ve assembled a few key questions, and how to go about answering them. Keep your… read more
Categorised as: Career Development
22nd
May
How Valuable Are Soft Skills To Your Employment Prospects?
Good communication. Initiative. The ability to work in a team. So-called ‘soft skills’ such as these have long received short shrift from bottom-line worshiping monetarists who believe the only assets of any value comes with a price tag that can be quantified to the cent. Luckily, those attitudes are on the way out. Increasingly, employers… read more
Categorised as: Career Development, Talent Search & Management
11th
May
Mitigating Risk in a Talent Short Market
Identifying and securing the top talent in your industry is one of the biggest challenges you face in businesses today. Having the right people in place to lead your organisation through both economic downturns and sudden periods of growth is crucial to long-term success. Studies indicate a real shortage of leadership talent in both New… read more
Categorised as: Talent Search & Management
1st
May
Why Did Someone Less Qualified Than Me Get The Job?
Losing out on a job is always painful, but it’s especially hard when you know you were ideally suited to the position. Whoever got it couldn’t have been more qualified. So what’s going on? There are a few reasons why ability, experience and qualifications won’t necessarily get you hired: 1) Nepotism The old ‘it’s who… read more
Categorised as: Job Seeker Advice
17th
Apr
Why Bad Hiring Costs More Than Not Hiring
The recruiting process is time-consuming and costly. According to MBIE’s (somewhat optimistic) employee cost calculator the average cost per hire for IT workers in New Zealand is just under $7000. To ensure a recruitment drive is ultimately profitable for your business, mistakes have to be kept to a minimum. As expensive as a successful recruitment… read more
Categorised as: Talent Search & Management
16th
Feb
Death Of The Middle Manager
Remember managers? They were all the rage last century, when professional advancement equated to the pursuit of authoritative job titles and everyone knew their place in the hierarchy. If you had no discernible skills other than irritating or coddling those who did, you could go far. Not so anymore. A study by job-matching company TheLadders… read more
Categorised as: IT, Talent Search & Management
9th
Feb
Preparing for a Leadership Role
Taking on more responsibility at work is not always synonymous with career or financial advancement. The healthiest approach to securing a leadership opportunity is to assume there’ll be no monetary or status reward; take on the new challenge for it’s own sake, do it to the best of your abilities and the rewards will naturally follow…. read more
Categorised as: Career Development
3rd
Feb
Accepting That New Job Offer Might Make You Or Break You
Looking for a job is one of the most stressful things we do in life (it is infinitely less stressful if you engage The Talent Hive of course :0). First, there are the weeks and months spent procrastinating over whether you should even leave your current role. Next, you fret over the state of your… read more
Categorised as: Job Seeker Advice
20th
Jan
In Business, Only Bad Eggs Prevent Poaching
The long-running poaching dispute between four global tech giants and more than 64,000 of their employees may finally have reached it’s conclusion after Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe offered to settle the lawsuit for $415 million (USD). The lawsuit claims the companies had made formal agreements not to recruit each others employees. One email exchange… read more
Categorised as: Talent Search & Management