Asset Recruitment Blog

Retrain to retain: the importance of professional development for staff retention

Posted by : Cara Armstrong November 2, 2022 11:17 am

In an ever-tightening labour market, professional development has never been more important for staff retention. Judy Davison, Asset Recruitment’s Permanent and Executive Recruitment Specialist, explains why now’s the time to retrain to retain. From professional certification

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Hiring en masse: the importance of recruitment and induction processes

Posted by : Cara Armstrong July 18, 2022 2:04 pm

Record numbers of job vacancies and a tough recruitment market have dominated headlines in the first half of 2022, with many businesses experiencing such growth that a single hire is just the tip of the iceberg. Organisations aren’t just recruiting for the odd replacement or si

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Managing recruitment needs in the hybrid workplace

Posted by : Cara Armstrong March 25, 2022 10:24 am

There’s a new look to many workplaces – half the desks are inhabited, half the staff carparks are full, and half the number of coffee cups are used on any given day. It’s not to say businesses aren’t running at capacity. Far from it. It’s just the other half of the team is working from hom

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Changes and challenges facing Waikato’s recruitment market

Posted by : Cara Armstrong February 11, 2022 2:04 pm

COVID-19 may have brought most things to a standstill; most that is but for the recruitment industry. Today, Waikato’s recruitment market has more positions open than ever before. Asset Recruitment’s Executive Recruitment and Business Development Manager, Judy Davison, looks at the chang

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Opportunities in Waikato’s industrial sector

Posted by : Cara Armstrong November 30, 2021 11:18 am

A positive experience is how industrial recruitment candidate, Paul Dormizzi, describes his first encounter with Asset Recruitment. “Can you start tomorrow?” was the final question Paul Dormizzi was asked when interviewing for a role at Soudal in Hamilton. Put forward by Asse

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Contract roles: do the benefits outweigh the risks?

Posted by : Cara Armstrong November 17, 2021 6:27 pm

Contract roles tend to come with an end date. But does that really mean you should overlook them? In our latest blog, we discuss the opportunities these temporary roles provide candidates and why they shouldn’t be ignored. There’s a great job advertised. It’s with a reputab

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Work in the Waikato: what’s on offer for job seekers in Hamilton

Posted by : Cara Armstrong September 30, 2021 3:03 pm

It has long been said that Hamilton, or more affectionately ‘the Tron’, is the city of the future. And, while it may once (or more than once) have been said in jest, today there’s no denying that the opportunities Hamilton and the greater Waikato offer are worth considering. From schools to

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How to secure top talent in a tight labour market

Posted by : Cara Armstrong August 23, 2021 3:30 pm

Today’s labour market is akin to that of the property market – employers are needing to put their best offer on the table to secure candidates who are receiving multiple offers for employment. So, when vacancies are high and candidate numbers are low, how can your company secure top talent wi

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Has the job market changed since you last were looking?

Posted by : Judy Davison August 2, 2021 8:11 am

There are no ifs, ands, or buts, about it, ‘Pivot’ was the verb of 2020. Used to describe the act of adapting to doing business during COVID-19, pivoting – or being responsive to shifts in the external environment – has become the new normal, no matter what industry you're in. Here at Ass

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Recruitment requires a different approach. A look at the Waikato recruitment market one year on from COVID-19

Posted by : Carmel Strange June 30, 2021 1:15 pm

As recruiters we have a number of tools at our disposal – a database of job seekers; a library of ques

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