The productivity of any business is often defined by the attitude and mental well-being of those leading it.

One recruitment company seeking engineers for the Christchurch rebuild is getting more phone calls from expats wanting to return home.

What impact will extending the 90 day employment trial period have on recruitment?

A medical recruitment company claims to have seen a 300 per cent rise in New Zealand doctors leaving to find better pay in Australia in the last year.

Togs, togs, togs ... undies - remember the advertising image of a beachgoer in swimming togs walking up the beach into a shopping centre?

Companies are looking to lift staff to meet growth plans.

The Govt has been criticised for saying the 90-day trial period would be voluntary, and then asking for it to be on all public sector contracts.

Add Christmas and the associated financial pressures into the mix, and I suspect this unfortunate trend of employee theft and fraud may continue into 2011.

Recruitment is the barometer of what is going on; if we are good then businesses are generally good.

I thought the "recruitment cowboys" had disappeared. Not the case.