A half-day seminar looking at why recruiters will need to be inventive to source candidates into the future - and equip them with the tools to do so - will be facilitated by RCSA with Laura Stoker, Executive Director of Global Training with AIRS in Sydney on December 5. Laura said the Tearing down the myth of complicated sourcing seminar has been designed to provide those attending with a different set of resources they can use “to augment their current recruiting strategies

Peter McLaren, Chair of McLaren Associates will this month receive a Kiwibank Local Hero Medal for his community service work in Wellington. Peter was nominated and won the Community Service Award for his work providing pro bono HR services to non-government organisations (NGOs). “The Kiwibank Local Hero award recognises those whose selflessness and determination has made a difference in the community,” Kiwibank said. “It provides a special opportunity to all New Zealanders,

The positive outcomes which can be realised when business and government work together to address unemployment has been demonstrated, yet again in a new program being rolled out across New Zealand. The program, was piloted in February when specialist healthcare recruitment firm Medcall connected with the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development (MSD) to deliver a pilot program where people receiving government benefits could be assessed, coached and trained for the role of