21 October 2015
Former apprentice has high hopes for engineering maintenance business
For 36-year-old Taupo man David Gibson, an apprenticeship has helped shape the career he has today.
16 October 2015
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, sets clear standards of...
15 October 2015
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 plastic companies: Convex Plastics,...
15 October 2015
Competenz Sector Advisory Groups: connecting us with our industries
When you’re in the business of supporting the training needs of 37 industries across New Zealand, opportunities to talk directly, frankly and openly with senior members of our industries three...
15 October 2015
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 Pasifika Trades Training Initiative.
13 October 2015
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 in engineering.
12 October 2015
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 drill.
12 October 2015
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.
09 October 2015
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.
07 October 2015
Women in trades rebuilding Canterbury
“It’s like that slogan, if you’ve got a trade, you’ve got it made.
