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You spend a lot of time finding, interviewing, and training your employees. So it’s not ideal if they up and leave 6 months after starting the job. You have to go through the whole tedious process again from the beginning, and there’s no guarantee you’ll find someone as good. With that in mind, here’s how to look after your people (so they don't want to leave).

Interviews are a two way street. Here are seven questions to ask in an interview that'll make you stand out, and help you decide if you really want the job.

Giving and receiving feedback is as hard as it is necessary. And from our experience, the key to making it feel less difficult is to do it more – to make it part of your everyday.

It used to be job seekers who had to dust off their best outfits, and practice their firm, but friendly handshake. Now it’s your turn. If you’re a recruiter or hiring manager, you need to start that relationship off with a bang with an awesome candidate experience.

We’re hosting a small event - a Culture Bootcamp.You'll hear from three of NZ’s most experienced culture experts who’ll be sharing war stories and their hard-won tips and secrets. You’ll uncover out what great culture and values could look like in your unique business as well as learn practical tips for creating (and keeping!) a healthy one.

The first of our #globalweirdo series, profiling Tom Harding from Mish Guru. These guys help make it easy for companies to create, build and manage Snapchat campaigns online.

Building (and then describing) your company culture is hard. Scaling startup culture gets even harder. In this post, Kirsti Grant (Former VP of Talent at Vend), shares her thoughts on how it can be done.

Almost two weeks after #growthsprint, we’ve recovered enough to view the experience with some perspective. In the spirit of honestly sharing this whole techy startup adventure with the world, here are a few things we learned – and that we’d do differently next time.

Boring, tired, process-heavy — let’s face it. Traditional recruiting experiences just don’t make you attractive to the exciting talent. But admitting you have a problem is the first step to beating it. Here's why building a better recruitment process is vital to creating the culture you want.

2015 – the year we change the world. Or rather, the year our clients change the world.

Fletcher Building's new Graduate Recruitment Campaign is aiming to eliminate unconscious bias, as well as being crazy-fun for the applicants.

With our new text analysis feature (AKA donuts), you'll be able to get meaningful insights about your applicant's personality, based on the text answers they've submitted. That's flash, bro.

Sebastian leaves Weirdly at the end of this week to begin his undergraduate study at Princeton University, where he plans to study computer science and finance. One day, he hopes to found his own startup. You can follow his adventures on Twitter as @sebthedev.

A selection of our favourite 2015 Weirdly quiz questions - some slider and some free text. Have a read, be inspired and start imagining how fun you could make YOUR candidate process:

Betting on the perfect person being available when you finally decide you need to hire someone is super-risky. We reckon applying an "always be recruiting" strategy is the way to grow smarter and hire better.

Last week we intro'd you to the woopty line thing, now we're dropping the full noise analytics report on you. This thing is going to be a gold-mine of insights about how people are completing your quizzes, which ads or sourcing channels are sending you the best quality applicants, and when and where people are getting stuck.

We kept the #growthsprint energy high this week – with new people starting, lots of exciting media stuff, launches out the wazoo and Dale’s birthday to wrap it all up.

We’ve just released our latest feature and it's a doozy. Spoiler alert: Get your nerd glasses ready because this involves some jazzy analytics.

We kicked off our #growthsprint with a hiss and a roar last week. Energy is high, the team is motivated and client signups are going through the roof; Best week ever.