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Finding a new contractor who will perform can be a gamble for employers.  With so many unknowns to contend with, it’s hard to understand whether a person will actually perform and get a good job done.

When there are deadlines to meet, limited staffing budgets, and particularly when you have a limited amount of time to recruit – making the right decision the first time is paramount.

Companies do have measures to hire performers, such as maintaining contact with good contractors they’ve engaged in the past, along with using contractor suppliers, such as agencies.  Sound familiar?  But these options have their pitfalls; when existing contractors are engaged in other projects and if the budget won’t stretch to cover agencies bills, managers can be left scrambling to find a good contractor.

Our focus at Crackerjacks is to provide businesses direct access to a pool of vetted contractors, who are assured to perform. This is delivered through our proprietary performance checking system – which has been patented in New Zealand.

This proprietary performance system works in the following manner:

1. 1.    Contractors who register on Crackerjacks are required to add two referees, who have been their past managers, so we can contact them and undertake the performance check.
2. 2.    The performance check measures their key competencies, such as communication, technical abilities, project management and management skills.  It also looks at contractor specific performance indicators, such as; speed/accuracy, understanding of their past project, people integration skills and their value for money.
3. 3.    From this check each contractor is assigned a rating – which is comparative to all other contractors.  Top performers, who scored well in these, are assigned a 3 star rating – and will naturally appear higher in business searches, which makes finding a top performer easy for employers.

With performance being such a vital issue for employers, it is good to know there is an alternative that simplifies this guesswork, before the final hire decision is made.  Crackerjacks pool of performance rated contractors can be accessed by any Crackerjacks business user 24/7, and because our fees are only incurred once a contractor is hired, you can have peace-of-mind while searching and interviewing.  With this end-to-end recruitment system you are assisted every step of the way, so contractors can be quickly found and hired with ease.

For more information please contact us on business@crackerjacks.co.nz or call on (09) 914 8540 ext. 2