Five New Scholarships for Tauranga Students

Five Tauranga local school leavers will head off to tertiary study with a welcome financial boost, thanks to a suite of scholarships from local company Ryan+Alexander.The Tauranga recruitment agency launched the scholarships today to mark five years in business. Co-director Bernadette Ryan-Hopkins says the Tauranga community has supported Ryan+Alexander to thrive, and it’s gratifying to…

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Time to pay employees their worth

This month, a survey came out which validated what many of us have known for some time: housing in Tauranga is crazy expensive. In fact, Tauranga is now the least affordable place to buy a home in New Zealand – and among the least affordable in the world. The latest instalment of the comprehensive Demographia…

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Executive success in regional NZ

You’re a Marketing Manager in Auckland, and you’re applying for a Marketing Manager’s job in Tauranga. It’ll be exactly the same kind of job, right? Similar support, similar focus, similar outputs. Um, no. One of the most significant differences that I have observed between the regions and the main centres for Senior Executives and middle…

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Fewer fish, smarter fishing

At the start of your career, you can afford to take a few wrong turns. You might join a company which, you later realise, you find too boozy, too patriarchal, too sporty, too serious. Maybe the work is not what you expected it to be, or it’s in the boondocks and the commute is a…

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If your employees are leaving for the lifestyle and relative affordability of the regions, maybe you should join them?

Moving your business to Tauranga is no small consideration. The upheaval, the cost, the hours spent establishing new relationships. And yet, more and more companies are doing just that. The Bay of Plenty’s innovative Priority One economic development agency has followed its determined business attraction strategy since its inception in 2001, and in a targeted…

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