How Global Remote Hiring Addresses New Zealand Tech Talent Woes

New Zealand, like Australia, is experiencing near record-low unemployment rates of 3.3 percent, providing further evidence of a tight labor market. In the country’s burgeoning tech sector, talent availability has also been hard hit. In response, software engineers, ICT security specialists, multimedia specialists, and several other ICT management roles have recently been included on New Zealand’s green…

Reinventing the interview – a masterclass from the creator of ABC’s “You Can’t Ask That”

In my recent blog on the 2022 RCSA SHAPE Conference I outlined how I saw the need for the mindset of recruiters to evolve due to ‘conformist’ candidates now being outnumbered by ‘individualists’. To use a powerful metaphor offered by Nuriah Jadai on the first morning of last week’s RCSA SHAPE Conference – we need to come…

This Week in Talent (6th October)

Oh my god, HIIIIIII! I’m back for the month of October to deliver the TWIT to you. Lordy what fun little talent things have I been up to recently? WELL … We successfully launched our first ever summer internship program (woo hoo) Completed Talent Acquisition user experience journey mapping, process mapping, pin pointed all the…

Digi Roundtable- Tackling The Digital Skills Shortage

Following the National Jobs Summit in September, (in case you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know about the summit, check out our blog post about the event), on Thursday 8th September, the Digital Skills Organisation (DSO) ran a Digi Roundtable in Canberra connecting key representatives from State, Territory and Commonwealth Governments and leading…