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The adult minimum wage will rise to $23.50 an hour from 1 April 2025. The Workplace Relations and Safety Minister has announced that the adult minimum wage will be rising to $23.50 per hour from 1 April 2025. This is an increase of 35 cents per hour from the current hourly rate of $23.15. Th… Read more

Want to answer the 5 trickiest INTERVIEW questions? The worst mistake you can make in an interview is to try to “fake” an answer or tell them what you think they want to hear. Don’t do it! You have amazing skills, experience and qualifications so showcase them and be AUTHENTIC. Employers are loo… Read more

Everbody knows how tough 2024 was, both for employers and their staff. The good news is that 2025 has started out with some new enthusiasm for clients to hire both short term (temp) staff and permanent ongoing roles. If you are looking for short or long term staff, Superior Personnel can help. Plea… Read more

2022 marks 25 years since Superior Personnel opened for business. Back in 1997 Lorraine Hopwood started Superior Personnel but the business has changed significantly in the following quarter of a century.   Our long serving staff are still with Superior Personnel including Mandi, Derek, Daph… Read more

  Finding a job can sometimes be very hard and challenging, especially trying to find something in your field. Make sure you read the advert properly and that you do not miss out the smallest details. Some job adverts specifically ask for experience, for example some of the jobs we advertise… Read more

You need to speak in public, but your knees buckle even before you reach the podium. You want to expand your network, but you’d rather swallow nails than make small talk with strangers. Speaking up in meetings would further your reputation at work, but you’re afraid of saying the wrong thing. Situat… Read more

This week's blog is about building relationships in the recruitment process and then maintaining them post-placement takes skill and experience. Discovered on Seek, Written by Clive Hopkins. 'Best practice For Tim Venn, General Manager - Projects and Operations (Victoria) at Davidson, keeping in t… Read more

  Recruitment Consultants and hiring managers see a lot of CVs every day, so make sure yours stands out for all the right reasons! there are countless online resources and tools at our disposal to help us create high quality CVs and job applications, but it still requires a bit of dedicated time be… Read more

The silly season is quickly approaching with only 5 weeks (or 33 days!) left until we depart for the year to spend time with our whanau, friends, eat good food and hang at the beach. Do you have a work Christmas party coming up? While for some workers, the work Christmas party (or non-denominatio… Read more

Want to answer the 5 trickiest INTERVIEW questions? The worst mistake you can make in an interview is to try to “fake” an answer or tell them what you think they want to hear. Don’t do it! You have amazing skills, experience and qualifications so showcase them and be AUTHENTIC. Employers are loo… Read more