Web-based tests have become a key gateway to landing a job, a potent screening tool that can effectively bump a CV to the top of a manager's pile.

A survey off the North Island's East Coast has uncovered a huge hidden network of frozen methane and methane gas.

This is a Budget that needs to be familiar and reassuring, writes Liam Dann. National will be banking on English reminding middle NZ that we've survived the GFC in good shape.

Think of your manager as your number one customer, says psychologist Keith McGregor. It's a concept most people haven't thought of when they complain "my boss never listens to me" or "my boss takes no interest in what I'm doing".

The strength of the surge in net immigration will influence both the outlook for interest rates and how long loan-to-value ratio curbs remain in place, says Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Grant Spencer.

Sorry, but the careers literature starts to define you as an older worker around the age of 45 years - but in some ways it's a bonus because it's a strong message that it's time to rethink and revision your career.

There's so much cheap iron ore flooding into China that rates for the ships that carry it are forecast to jump almost 70 per cent by June.

Inspired by Sheryl Sandberg's best-seller, Lean In, I decided to form a group of like-minded professional women who were interested in talking about career advancement.

First home buyer numbers had picked up nationally in March according to new figures from QV out today. So what happened where you live? Check our infographic.

The contrary view to Labour's plan for monetary policy and savings goes broadly like this: It is a cute idea but it won't work, writes Brian Fallow.

Employment grew strongly in the first three months of the year but so did the supply of workers, leaving unemployment unchanged and wage pressures subdued.

Some economists are interpreting talk by Governor Graeme Wheeler that the Reserve Bank may intervene in the foreign exchange market.

A third tranche of "Special Housing Areas" will create 18,000 new residences across Auckland. Click here for details and maps of the new areas, announced today.

Auckland mayor Len Brown has just announced a 'significant' number of new approvals of special housing areas will be revealed today.

SkyCity CFO James Burrell, who had been seen as a potential leader, has resigned for family reasons and will return to the UK.

Prime Minister John Key laid out the welcome mat for foreigners yesterday and said it was a point of contrast between National and other parties.

There's a lot of debate about a silver bullet solution for New Zealand's high dollar, writes Liam Dann. The good news is there is one. The bad news is that we have no control over it.

The 2013 Census contains a huge amount of fascinating information that highlights the difficulties facing businesses, particularly in the Auckland area, writes Brian Gaynor.

TransTasman Resources has been granted a mining permit to extract titano-magnetite sands some 22 to 36 km off the coast of Patea, in the Exclusive Economic Zone.

Westland Milk, the Hokitika-based dairy coop, has received accreditation to export products into China, joining the five manufacturers named yesterday.

Chief executive Mark Powell has dared say what many others must surely think, but few are prepared to publicly utter: that executive pay is well into the realm of the ridiculous, writes Dita De Boni.

Businesses are still brimming with confidence, ANZ's monthly survey has found.

What we got from Labour's finance spokesman David Parker on Tuesday was a much broader economic policy than that would imply, writes Brian Fallow.

Business confidence extended its slide from a 20-year high amid expectations the central bank will continue to hike interest rates.