New Zealand's recruitment marketplace
Plain writing about hiring in New Zealand.
Hire Before You Need To You’ve got a big job coming up in a few months. Maybe it’s already signed, maybe it’s close. Either way, you know you’re going to need another person on the tools — or someone to run a second crew, or a foreperson who can hold things together while you’re across […]
Why Day 14 Is the Most Important Day of Your Hire You posted the job ad two weeks ago. You’ve been sorting through applications in the evenings because there’s no way to deal with it during the day — not when you’re on-site, not when you’re the one running the job. You’ve done some phone […]
The Seek Ad Feels Like the Cheap Option. It Isn’t You need to hire someone. Your instinct is to post a job ad on Seek or TradeMe. It’s a few hundred dollars, you know how it works, and it feels like the responsible move — you’re not throwing money at a recruiter when you could […]
Hiring Without an HR Team: The Three Problems Every Small NZ Business Runs Into When you run a small business, hiring is nobody’s full-time job. It falls on you—the owner, the manager, the person already doing four other things—at exactly the moment when you’re already stretched. There’s no recruiter down the hall to hand it […]