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HR / HCM / PAYROLL SOLUTIONS OVERVIEW
The internet has revolutionised the recruitment process, allowing companies to bypass traditional situations vacant advertising and agency commissions by integrating careers sub-sections into their websites or utilising ‘self-serve’ online advertising options. Prospective employees can either apply directly to available jobs, or simply register their interest in working for a brand. Companies have effectively become their own agencies, inviting ‘passive’ job seekers into a database for future consideration when roles become available. Companies with high-turnover divisions such as call centres have been first to recognise the cost benefits of having a pool of available, pre-screened talent at their disposal.
Company career sites usually provide a facility for job seekers to create a personal account with an email address and password, which they can revisit and update. Job seekers provide information about themselves via an online application form, and are able to view a list of job openings. Targeted questions related to job roles are replacing standard ‘Attach CV’ functionality, to capture exactly the required information, and allow for quicker and unbiased comparisons by employers.
Big job board players such as Seek and search4jobs now provide links from their job adverts to external career sites, allowing for direct entry of candidate information into a company’s talent pool database, and application screening. This represents a huge step forward for employers, who can now avoid being bombarded with masses of emails from candidates with differently formatted CVs and irrelevant information.
NEWS | ANALYSIS | RESEARCH
The skills employers are willing to pay a premium for
New year, new job as demand remains strong across A/NZ…
Why Karen’s job in the call centre is safe from GPT
But knowledge workers, creatives face disruption…
There’s money and satisfaction in those digital skills
The individual, organisational and macroeconomic benefits…
Microsoft: Remote work is bad for innovation
Back to the office you go…
Time for a career change? AI can help with that
The virtual careers advisor is in…
Tech salaries a tale of two halves
Warning: Salary expectation gap ahead…
Transparency and anonymity out the door
Significant workforce privacy gap flagged…
Tech talent shortage: The training equation
Taking a longer-term view on talent…
The talent shortage: Scarcity, stinginess, or confusion?
Is New Zealand’s closed border a scapegoat for deeper issues…
VR lifting jobless Kiwis into workforce
Going VR to solve frontline staffing shortages…
Xero’s workforce management play
New acquisition reflects changing nature of work…
Top tech jobs of 2021
What does a year of both creation and destruction for business mean for the job market?…
Remote workers under the microscope
New employee experience platforms dish the data on workers…
High-tech recruitment in the age of Covid
Throw those one-dimensional resumes in the bin; Covid’s changed hiring forever…
RtR Series: NZ’s digital tech sector ITP ‘vision’ unveiled
Plan for road ahead outlined…
Coming to a business near you: Workforce contact tracing
Can private contact tracing solutions help ease lockdowns?…
The most in demand IT skills
Spoiler alert: It’s not AI or blockchain…
NZ/AU tech workers much unhappier than the global average
A happy workplace is a productive workplace. So why is everyone in tech so miserable?…
Watson crunches 170m job postings to predict tomorrow’s work
Conclusion: All jobs will change…
Gig economy study: People hate being managed by algorithms
A study of Uber drivers in New York and London finds worker resentment and frustration with the company’s management-by-app approach to HR…
How to predict who’s going to quit
It’s the next step in digital HR management – AI-powered employee flight-risk prediction. And yes, it’s available to regular schmoes too…
The future of work: Dynamic, adaptive and home to personal data twins
It’s the future Jim, but not as we know it…
Global skills rating leaves room to improve
NZ and Australia get a pass mark for business, so-so for tech and data science…
Gig economy flourishes, but for who?
New research reveals employers aggressively enthusiastic about gig economy…
How AI is helping businesses hire smarter
Does AI have a role to play helping recruiters’ hardest job?…
Are these the most lucrative jobs in IT?
Wait, I have to do what?!?…
LookSee 2.0 targets tech skills shortages – junket excluded
Bye-bye free trip, hello NZ-wide…
DARQ days ahead as business enters ‘post-digital’ world
New rules apply as privacy and individualism take centre stage…
LinkedIn goes to the dogs
Can doggie pics save us from hiring bias?…
Future of Work = massive skills upgrade
New reports demand major re-think on education…
NZ tech sector gets unionised
Aotearoa Tech Union launches, and yes, it really is a union…
Open office findings counter-intuitive
The science is out: why open offices don’t foster collaboration…
Robots, automation…and longer holidays
Forget robots stealing our jobs – can they help make the four-day work week a reality instead?..
Deloitte says CIOs need to adapt or perish
In the age of change, just what does the role of the CIO entail?..
Reskilling the older generation to finish their careers in tech
Having no prior tech experience shouldn’t stop us reskilling older, non-tech workers…
Measuring people performance with ML
Eek! A machine is going to tell me I’m not good enough?…
AI and ML transforming supply chain management
Changes are driving further demand for human workers with a digital engineer’s skill set…
The changing face of HR
Forget robots stealing jobs, technology is changing the face of HR…
Help wanted: National digital leaders apply within
The government has its fair share of challenges when it comes to digital and data – and finding competent leaders is one of them…
A/NZ tech laggards losing staff
We don’t like working with old tech – and we’re not afraid to leave…
Fusion5 think outside the box with Jemini
The power of nine helps bring three years of HCM software development to market…
ServiceNow takes on next least popular department
IT service management provider has HR in its sights to extend footprint…
Fonterra debuts new VR training tech
The dairy co-op has developed possibly the hippest risk reduction training in the country: virtual reality H&S…
World’s top IT companies tackle Industry 4.0 – with free education
Tech giants come together to train world’s workers to survive Fourth Industrial Revolution…
Economic downturn? Keep on collaborating
New research indicates that recessionary thinking has all the hallmarks of a self-fulfilling prophecy…
Introducing your new workplace headache: Gen Z
The new (est) breed takes a different approach to tech than their Millennial predecessors…
The new best job in the world: Data Scientist?
Why the data guy just might be your company’s most valuable asset…
New Zealand tech sector passes $10 billion revenue
Regions shine, high value jobs created as TIN200 tech companies produce equivalent of 10 percent of New Zealand exports…
The participation trophy myth: The real secrets to managing millennials
Hiring staff between now and 2030? here’s what you need to know…
Silicon Valley’s sexual harassment epidemic
We chew over the recent wave of sexual harassment complaints coming out of the centre of the tech universe…
Cracking the onboarding nut
New software could have positive unintended consequence…
Make sure your systems don’t suffer the holiday blues
After a spate of glorious public holidays, Kiwis across the country are doing their best to get back into the swing of things…
Collab about more than apps (and potentially less about hot-desks)
It’s clear office workspaces are changing. The days of the private office are behind us, replaced by open-plan offices where people are placed in corrals that often make us feel more like farm animals than workers…
Access talent at home
Skills shortages are a problem in many fast-changing industries…
‘People analytics’ lifts the lid on HR performance
Nascent BI discipline provides insights on a range of employee metrics…
Good luck hanging on to IT staff
More than fifty percent those in tech jobs plan to move within a year…
When executives go bad: avoiding a Weldon
Ending up with the wrong hire can be a painful exercise all round…
Lifting the lid on HR transformation
From transactional processes to increased value-adding activities…
Why (and how) your company has to become a talent magnet
In advice which Lotharios everywhere have made a part of their DNA, Greg Savage says talent acquisition is the art of seduction…
Experts team up for healthy talent management
Two HCM technology and healthcare industry experts have combined forces to address the health sector’s specific talent management needs…
The new HR: accountable, measurable, analytical
The soft fluffy HR department is making way for an empirical results-based strategy to manage human capital says Aaron Green…
Diverse IT – a new look at skills needed for the tech sector
Jodi Mitchell, CEO of SimplHealth, says softer skills are changing a once tech-heavy profession…
2022: the future world of work
PwC partner and HR transformation specialist Debbie Francis looks at the possible outcomes that may evolve in the workplace of the future…
IT employment market: Is it all about the money?
As technology has become more embedded in business, the roles within the IT sector have rapidly multiplied and specialised. Hayden McCall took a look at the dynamics at play in the IT market…
NZ MBAs provide solid IT foundation
On a recent trip to the region the CEO of the Association of MBAs was impressed by New Zealand’s coverage of technology in MBA courses…
HR: How to transform paper shufflers into talent managers
Donovan Jackson explores developments in human resources (HR) management and discovers how technology is shaping this field…
ICT skills shortage: A clear and present danger
As businesses across the board are becoming increasingly digitised, technology and high-tech companies alike have been bemoaning the shortage of available ICT skills. Clare Coulson investigates whether there is a real possibility that this region is being left in the ICT dust…
‘Hidden’ HR problem causing efficiency downturn and staff losses
There needs to be some fresh thinking on understanding what frustrates staff says Greentree CEO Peter Dickinson…
Why the HR department is redundant at the hands of the millennials
The social era is making the workplace a jungle for digital natives to exercise their right to input, feedback and collaboration. Mark Wade contemplates the future of the HR department…
Old fashioned views of ICT endanger business
Emerging ICT Leader of the Year Amanda White says there is frustration amongst a large number of ICT managers who are being excluded from the C-suite…
Online tool takes guess work out of hiring accountants
An online tool that tests accountancy technical competency was launched last week at the HR Game Changer Conference, giving those hiring accountants a reliable way to measure technical ability for the first time…
CMOs and CIOs told to compromise for customers’ sake
Chief marketing officers and chief information officers need to come to a compromise about technology risk or lose the attention and interest of their customers…
Systems planning pays dividends for new businesses
The formative years of a new business can define future success or otherwise. Selecting the right processes and support systems, and resourcing them appropriately, are critical factors in building long term value…
Is HR just an administrivia?
Gartner’s “Maverick” research is designed to spark new, unconventional insights, in order to deliver disruptive ideas. Here Morgan Yeates offers some provocative thoughts on HR technology…
Signing on the digital line
Despite the fact that technology use has almost become an extension of the human condition, there is one area where we stubbornly stick to the old…
Fletcher Building lays foundations for success
Fletcher Building is a NZ$6.5 billion company operating with 19,000 staff in more than 40 countries, manufacturing and distributing building and construction products…
2013 iStart ICT Investment Intentions Survey
Mobilising management is the key objective of IT investment plans for 2013 says iStart’s annual investment survey. The mid-market is investing in mobile business intelligence while small business is doing more with less in the cloud.
What are eBusiness functions?
There are 6 key areas of e-business processes that organisations can look to e-enable in the coming months and years…
From ‘hire to fire’
Can you accurately account for every employee in your company? How about the management of every individual’s performance, training, objectives and payroll information?…
SEEK moves smartly on mobile market
Job seeking on-the-go just got easier for Smartphone users…
HR systems shift to the cloud
With people wanting access to information anytime and anywhere, web-based HR systems are proving to be the way to go. Ulrika Hedquist finds moving to the cloud affords a flexible and cost-effective solution…
Survey shows ‘workforce planning’ is on most companies’ to-do list
Despite tough economic times, almost half of businesses expect to spend more on WFP next year…
IMS Payroll launches online module
Major local payroll software provider adds web-based data entry and processing capabilities…
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