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Invercargill Licensing Trust The Invercargill Licensing Trust (ILT) is an organisation with over 670 staff spread over multiple sites.  This includes hospitality businesses such as hotels, taverns and alcohol retail businesses in Invercargill and motels in...

As technology continues to advance across both consumer and commercial markets, new and exciting opportunities for advancement are arising every day.For the most part, this is a positive change. However, buyers are facing an increasingly more complex decision-making...

Did your recruiting, onboarding, and hiring processes grind to a halt during this latest lockdown? If they did, keep in mind that ‘lockdowns’ are actually the perfect time to gain the attention of people who don’t normally job search.TradeMe published a press release...

'Employment Engagement’ and ‘Learning and Development’ are by no means new concepts and they are likely to be well established within your organisation.But they are quickly growing in importance as talent shortages increase and work-visa requirements become stricter....

Human Resources and hiring processes have undoubtedly changed forever.Some changes are well overdue for traditional companies who still rely on spreadsheets and legacy systems, whereas other organizations have been catapulted forward by utilizing advanced technology...

Outsource your time consuming and tricky HR and Recruitment requirements to QJumpers’ very experienced HR Assist team! Tight budget restraints? HR Assist is much cheaper than other HR Outsourcers and Recruitment Agencies. Is your time more valuable concentrating on...

OPINION: Google Hire departing the market somewhat abruptly has left a lot of customers looking for a replacement ATS service.“We’ve made the difficult decision to sunset Hire by Google on September 1, 2020.” Google Announcement. There’s a lot of competition in the US...

3 Keys to Recruiting: Collaboration, Friction-free Processes and Rapid Results As published in HR Technologist. In today’s hyper-competitive war for talent, a quick hiring process benefits all parties. Find out how by focusing on collaboration, putting friction-free...

As HR technology continues to evolve and transform the way we work, many organizations are turning to AI-enhanced video screening to make it easier to recruit and assess candidates.Not only are organizations using video to screen candidates, but they are also...

The number of available jobs in the U.S. exceeded job seekers by 659,000 in July according to the Department of Labor Job Report.The number of available jobs in the U.S. exceeded job seekers by 659,000 in July according to the Department of Labor Job Report. With...

Hiring the right people is essential, and it’s not always easy. That’s why recruiters must partner with hiring managers and interview teams to make sure that the right candidates get in front of the right people.“It’s always a tricky balance in hiring,” writes Adam...

Let AI-Assisted Recruiting Automate Hiring Recruiting talent is an integral and interactive part of every business, and savvy HR leaders understand that recruiting efforts that produce bad hires are costly. Recruiting and onboarding the wrong employee can cost as much...

Job applicants are in a unique position in today’s employment market.With so many job openings available, applicants are weighing the opportunity cost versus the time spent chasing a job opening. If an application experience is too cumbersome or time-consuming,...

The importance of candidate experience has been recognized in recruitment only comparatively recently – and even in that time, its effects have changed markedly. Certainly, the days in which talent was seen as a commodity and cherry-picked from known education systems...

In 2019 we’re seeing even more use of artificial intelligence (AI) around the world, a trend that is predicted to continue to expand as companies look to improve decision-making, reinvent operational processes, and change the way of doing business.As part of this...

Simon Oldham, President of QJumpers, talks through key trends for 2019 in recruiting HR technologies.Three key things in 2019 will be Artificial Intelligence, the continuation of technology that's already started but the evolution will carry on and will become more...

As recently published in Staffing Stream.There is often a barrier between recruiting departments and hiring managers when it comes to working together to staff an organization. This problem frequently originates due to miscommunication between the two groups regarding...

How the Right ATS Can Help You Find Top Talent FirstUnemployment rates are some of the lowest the United States has seen since 1969; while this is a sign of economic confidence, it’s not always good news for employers. The US Department of Labor reported there are...

If the future of technology is truly mobile, then the future of recruitment has to follow suit.Having a mobile recruitment strategy ought to be a done deal for companies considering the number of mobile devices on the planet now outnumber people – so it’s surprising...

The Twittersphere, Facebook’s global network and the countless other ways in which people share their lives across cyberspace provide a wealth of opportunity for companies to zero in on potential perfect candidates for roles in a competitive marketplace. But because...

One of the key obstacles to an ATS playing a winning role in a successful recruitment strategy is frustration.And it comes in many shapes and sizes: frustration from HR managers who feel their ATS isn’t giving them the dexterity they require to find and handle...

Writing recently in New Zealand’s HR magazine, QJumpers President Simon Oldham focused on some of the less well used aspects of technology aimed at simplifying the process.Because when it comes to talent acquisition and HR strategy, it’s all very well investing in the...

Technology has led talent acquisition trends over the past decade – but only now are businesses getting a handle on how it can revolutionize their recruitment processes.Because QJumpers was born out of two specific snapshots (firstly 12 years ago in New Zealand, and...