Your managers play a vital role in the organisation’s day to day operations—and in your long-term business success. It’s essential to hire well, but this critical group can often be overlooked.
Middle management and leadership positions don’t typically receive a targeted, custom-designed service during the average internal or agency recruitment and onboarding process; unlike, for example, executive level positions. Yet there is a higher volume of these types of roles, and arguably, they have just as much potential impact on business performance as your C-suite. The impact is particularly noteworthy in small to medium sized businesses, of which New Zealand has a great number.
Through our daily HR, training and recruitment work, The People Place has identified this gap, and working closely with our skilled, and highly experienced recruitment team, we’ve developed a service that provides an appropriate depth of service, specialisation and attention to achieve the best results when hiring mid management and leadership roles.
Choosing our Leadership Recruitment services means you are guaranteed to work with our leadership recruitment specialists. The end-to-end service is tailored to your needs, your organisation and the requirements of the vacant role. You get expert, confident advice from experienced consultants, who truly understand the market and will enhance your employment brand, while providing outstanding customer service, to you and your candidates.
You will enjoy The People Place’s highly regarded, comprehensive end to end recruitment service, however points of difference are in the additional steps that we include:
Using Leadership Recruitment for your middle management roles ensures you will be able to fill these key roles in your business with people who have the skills and experience you need, and who also have a great fit with your culture and organisation. The newly appointed manager will be able to hit-the-ground running. You’ll enjoyed enhanced retention, and all of this comes with highly competitive, fixed pricing. Get in touch to get started.


Reuben Bijl, Managing Director, Smudge
Daniel Stanners, General Manager, Auto Transform
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