Category: Recruitment and Selection

The Best Questions for Recruiting New Employees

Best Questions

What are the best questions to ask to help predict future performance of employees? In my experience the best questions are either situational or behavioural based. Situational based Candidates are asked questions on how they would handle/react to a hypothetical job related situation in the future.  These are the best questions for candidates who don’t

How does the Employee Turnover Rate Effect the Bottom-line?

Turnover rate

If your employee turnover rate is high, then your bottom-line will be significantly affected. Unexpected resignations cost between 100% & 300% of the person’s salary to replace. The costs that feed in to these percentages include recruitment costs, lost knowledge and productivity, down time to hire and train new hires and so on. What is

How to write a job description

how to write a job description

To understand how to write a job description, first you need to understand why have a job description in the first place. The key reasons for having a job description are: The Employment Relations Act 2000 requires an employer to have ‘a description of the work to be performed by the employee’ in their employment