Assessments
In some cases, we may ask you to complete some assessments after the interview.
Assessments will vary depending on the role and may include psychometric testing, a presentation, or a task specific to the role requirements.
Reference checks
Reference checks are an important part of our recruitment process.
After the interview, if you are a preferred candidate, we will tell you that we want to contact your referees and ask for their contact details. You will be asked to provide at least two references..
Pre-employment checks
Some of our roles require us to do pre-employment checks. This is to make sure you can carry out the duties of the position, so as not to cause harm to yourself, members of your team, members of the public, or to the council.
If pre-employment checks are a requirement of the position, we'll let you know. Sometimes we need to complete the pre-employment checks before giving you a verbal offer. If we make you a verbal offer and checks are still needed, your offer will be conditional until after the pre-employment checks have been passed to a satisfactory standard. The hiring manager (and your offer paperwork) will let you know if the offer is conditional.
Offer of employment
Once interviews and reference checks are completed, the interview panel will decide which candidate will be offered the job.
If you are the preferred candidate we will contact you with a verbal offer, which may be subject to pre-employment checks and the right to work and live in New Zealand. When you accept the verbal offer, we will send you your written offer of employment. This offer contains all your terms and conditions of employment.
It is important that you look at all the documentation and return it to us so we can start your onboarding process. We use an online system for candidates to accept and sign their individual employment agreement. The system will ask for additional information such as KiwiSaver, tax details, and supporting documentation. This allows us to begin the process of setting up the new candidate in our corporate systems.
Unsuccessful candidates
We will let candidates know as soon as a decision has been made. Depending on the stage of the process, you will either receive an email or a phone call to inform you of the decision.
