ALTR the way you hire.
Talent Strategy & Recruitment Consultancy
Let's get real about hiring.
Hiring has collected more process, more tech, more noise and more opinions. Most hiring models were built for a market that looks very different to the one we are in now, and adding AI to the mix can make hiring noisier instead of easier.
More applications, more technology, more process, more interviews and more requirements.
Sometimes more is not the answer. The strategy might need more clarity, the process might have grown heavier than it needs to be, or the technology might not be solving the problem you thought it would.
Altr. gets underneath what is keeping hiring stuck and works out what needs to change to help you find, assess and attract the people you actually need.
Why Altr.
Rethinking how you hire.
Altr. was formed because of the world we are living in. The way we work has changed, but the way we hire has not.
Hiring is still mostly transactional: cast the net wide and see what we catch. That is usually the first place the process breaks.
With AI, roles evolving, and demands and expectations shifting, the way you hire from here will either stall you or set you apart.
Most businesses have added AI to their hiring, yet only one in five say it has delivered real value. AI will only speed up what is already broken.
So, let's be real.
- Are you clear on what you are looking for?
- Do you know what someone needs to bring to be successful in the role, beyond what their CV says they have done?
- How did you decide on your shortlisting approach?
- Have you automated the parts that actually matter?
- Are candidates still being ghosted while you chase managers for feedback?
Altr. is built from inside hiring.
Altr. is built on ten years of working across talent acquisition, recruitment and hiring environments, from hands-on delivery through to talent leadership, transformation and advisory.
That experience shaped a simple belief: better hiring starts before the job ad. It starts with better questions, better decisions, and a better understanding of the work, the skills and the people you actually need.
We are not here to make hiring more complicated. Quite the opposite.
The founder
Meet Jas.
I have sat on both sides of the hiring table, and recently.
I have spent ten years in recruitment, and four years before that coaching people into employment. More recently, I have been on the other side of it myself.
Over the past three years, including time working in the UK, I have been the candidate. Applications disappeared into systems, CVs got lost, and I was overlooked for roles I knew I could do. It showed me first-hand how much good talent today's hiring misses.
My experience covers leading thousands of hires, in-house and agency, across New Zealand and the UK, in a range of corporate sectors. Delivering results is what I have been known for, across both volume hiring and niche roles.
Now I am back in New Zealand, and Altr. is not about getting back into hiring. It is about using both perspectives, the recruiter's and the candidate's, to build hiring that works better for everyone: better systems, stronger capability, and people and technology working together properly.
What the market is saying
of recruiters say it has become harder to find qualified talent.
LinkedIn Research: Talent 2026 · 6,554 HR professionals incl. Australia, UK, USof hiring managers say the surge in applications, many written with AI, has made it harder to verify candidates' skills.
Robert Half, Mar 2026 · 2,000+ US hiring managersof organisations have implemented AI in some capacity. Only one in five has seen significant or transformational value.
Gartner survey of 110 heads of HR · Jul 2026rise in New Zealand job ads asking for AI skills in the past year.
SEEK NZ Employment Report, Aug 2026Updated September 2026 Refreshed every two weeks from TalentBrew.
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The market moved and hiring got messy.
Altr. cuts through the noise. We help you work out what is slowing hiring down, what is no longer serving you, and what to do differently.
That might mean sharpening your workforce and talent strategy, simplifying the way hiring works, building stronger manager capability, improving how you assess people, rethinking your tech and AI, or changing how you attract and engage talent.
Focus on the part that actually needs to change. Less noise. Better decisions. Hiring that works for you.
How Altr. can help.
We look at your current hiring process and get to know your main challenges, what is involved and what matters most.
Then we strip back the noise and find a flow that works for you and your business. Something robust that can be repeated time and time again, whatever the role.