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On behalf of everyone here at Superior Personnel, we would like to welcome Eva Novak to the Auckland team. Eva is our Office Administrator and comes to us from Slovenia, where she worked in a recruitment agency before travelling to New Zealand. Welcome Eva! Read more

Here at Superior Personnel, we are looking for our newest team member........full time Office Administrator & Receptionist. Since 1997, we have delivered temporary, permanent and contract staffing solutions to the manufacturing, industrial and commercial sectors. We take pride in being able to t… Read more

For those of you following us on Facebook (Superior Personnel) and Twitter (GreatPeopleNZ), you will have noticed that we have been running a weekly post called Friday Features. This is about highlighting some Great People in New Zealand, from environmentalists, sportsmen and women to business leade… Read more

Superior Personnel are thrilled to announce that we will be opening a new branch in Waikato, at 919 Victoria Street Hamilton on 2nd February 2015. We look forward to having locally based recruiters dealing with our Waikato staff and clients.  Read more

The EMA reports that the new Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Michael Woodhouse has signaled that the Health and Safety Reform Bill is now likely to be enacted around September or October next year, rather than April as was previously planned. EMA’s manager of industrial relations and sa… Read more

Jobs Online measures changes in job vacancies advertised by businesses on the two main internet job boards – SEEK and Trade Me Jobs. The trend series is used as the lead indicator as it reduces the month-to-month volatility. Highlights Online job vacancies were steady in October. Online vacancie… Read more

The New Zealand Institute of Directors has just released their Spring 2014 Director Sentiment Survey. Critically it identifies skilled labour shortages as a key risk to business. Thanks to the IoD, here is a summary of their latest findings. Background The inaugural IoD-NZIER Director Sentiment sur… Read more

Every day is the same thing: Get to the office, check email, return messages, lunch, more email — and so on. If you're feeling stagnant in your career, it might be time to change things up. And one of the easiest ways to do so is by becoming a trainer. Thanks to Tim Cannon at Mashable for this great… Read more

An innovative way of helping sole parents enter and stay in the workforce, through a new model of childcare, is being developed by the Sustainable Business Council (SBC) in partnership with Barnardos KidStart Childcare, says SBC Executive Director, Penny Nelson. SBC is a division of BusinessNZ, of w… Read more

The latest Trade Me figures show that the number of job listings (vacancies) was up 16.4% compared to October last year. Every region in NZ has seen an increase except for Gisborne and Taranaki. Auckland was up 18%, Wellington 13% and Canterbury up 15%. As Trade Me quite correctly note - while this… Read more