Listening to our customers: breakfast meetings with our Competenz board
Our Competenz board members start every meeting with a breakfast at which local companies give their views on important issues involved in building and retaining a...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/listening-to-our-customers-breakfast-meetings-with-our-competenz-board/Women in trades rebuilding Canterbury
“It’s like that slogan, if you’ve got a trade, you’ve got it made.” For Joy Lalahi and many other women working in trades in the Canterbury...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/women-in-trades-rebuilding-canterbury/Because there’s nothing like being there: Cabinet ministers visit forestry workplace
New Zealand’s forests offer some of the country’s most scenic workplaces and a training ground which provides unique challenges. So it was good to be able...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/because-theres-nothing-like-being-there-cabinet-ministers-visit-forestry-workplace/How many people do you have in training?
“If you can’t train your own staff, you don’t have a sustainable business,” says Kerry Hill, Managing Director of Nelson-based Trinder Engineering.“When people say how difficult...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/how-many-people-do-you-have-in-training/Shakeout national earthquake drill: 9.15am Thursday 15 October
9.15am on Thursday 15 October was Shakeout time at Competenz, as our 180 employees around the country took part in the world’s biggest per capita earthquake...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/shakeout-national-earthquake-drill-9-15am-thursday-15-october/Trades academy providing a career pathway for Waitakere College students
Waitakere College’s trades academy has grown from strength to strength since it started last year and has no plans on slowing down.Twenty-two Year 12 and Year...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/trades-academy-providing-a-career-pathway-for-waitakere-college-students/Technology class well-equipped in CAD at Waimea College
The Computer Aided Design (CAD) course is teaching Waimea College students in Richmond the basics in design and technical drawings, and preparing them for a career...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/technology-class-well-equipped-in-cad-at-waimea-college/Welding firm opening doors to Māori and Pasifika students
Competenz recently hosted students from Unitec Institute of Technology (Unitec) on a tour around Auckland-based fabrication facility Jay Cee Welding as part of the Māori and...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/welding-firm-opening-doors-to-maori-and-pasifika-students/Getting ready for the new health and safety law
New Zealand’s new health and safety law, which comes in force on 4 April 2016, makes everyone involved in a workplace responsible for keeping others safe,...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/getting-ready-for-the-new-health-and-safety-law/Plastics industry offers opportunities for career pathways
Competenz careers advisors Brian Lane and Kimberley Ward recently spent a day in Hamilton with Competenz plastics account manager Phil Jones who organised tours around three...
http://troq.competenz.org.nz/news/plastics-industry-offers-opportunities-for-career-pathways/
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