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Waikato and the Bay of Plenty: The New Lands of Opportunity
Many dream of leaving the madness of Auckland behind, but don’t want to sacrifice career opportunities. OCG’s Mate Glamuzina tells us how the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions can provide the escape you’re looking for.
Jobs of the Future
With half of today’s jobs in danger of disappearing tomorrow and half of tomorrow’s jobs yet to exist today, OCG Consultant Mate Glamuzina discusses how employers need to be better prepared for the future.
The Changing Landscape of the Recruitment Sector
As a former GM of HR at one of New Zealand’s biggest banks, and now currently the GM for one of the country’s largest recruiters, I’ve been on both sides of the fence as both in-house and agency recruitment teams have adapted to market changes.
Addressing Engineering’s Leadership Vacuum
Managers with strong leadership skills and a keen commercial mind are already hard enough to find, but when you add in the technical skills related to the engineering sector as another criteria, the candidate pool narrows even further.
Talent Management and Supply Chain: Are they one and the same?
When you consider how organised those in the supply chain field have to be on a daily basis, it’s surprising how many accept a recruitment process that is far from efficient
Is Black the new Green and Gold?
New Zealand has broken its own net migration record four months in a row. In October we saw 6,200 migrants coming into the country. That extra 200 is very significant, as it represents last month’s net gain in migrants from Australia. This has resulted in the first annual net gain of Australian migrants coming to New Zealand in 20 years. To put this in perspective, just three years ago, this number was a 40,000 net loss.
Marriage of Convenience
Contractors should form healthy relationships with their recruitment agency to make life easier.
Employers don’t have generation specific talent strategies in place
Our research found that just over half (52%) of employers do not have any generation specific talent management strategies in place. Only 3% of organisations surveyed have strategies in place for all four generations.