4 February 2010
Wewould like to advise our customers of some changes regarding the Skills4Work Accelerator and Premier (Group) Apprentice Management Programmes. Skills4Work and Competenz have agreed that the Accelerator and Premier Apprentice Management Programmes will come under the management of Competenz and the re–established ATNZ (Apprentice Training 2010) Trust from 3 May 2010. Skills4Work will...
22 December 2009
This year’s 2010 Ivan Fisk Scholarship winners have been announced. The five winners come from a variety of mechanical engineering backgrounds and locations across the country. The scholarships drew a high level of interest with the applicants covering a wide variety of specialty engineering trades including general engineering, fabrication, and refrigeration and air conditioning. The...
1 December 2009
Skills4Workoffices will be closed from Wednesday 23 December 2009 to Sunday 10th January 2010. Normal hours of operation will resume on Monday 11th January 2010. The following people will be available to contact over the Christmas closure period: Urgent Payroll queries: Nolene Manning, Payroll Manager 027 488 0260. Urgent Operational queries: Steve Ball, National Assistant Apprentice Manager 027...
25 November 2009
Asthings and work start to fall into a normal type of flow, thought that you may like to see what’s going on. My work load as below will be varied, to say the least, with a chance for something different almost every day. The weather is very warm at the moment flips between say -12 and -3 degrees and an average wind speed of 20 knots, they say we may get an early ice breakup which...
30 July 2009
Article published in Sunday News 26 July 2009, by Vicki Holder Steve Ball, the Training and Recruitment Manager in charge of the apprenticeship programme at Skills4Work in Auckland says, compared to their counterparts in other countries, our engineers are very highly qualified and trained. It also helps that “the industry here is a lot more hands-on and less automated than in other...
30 July 2009
Article published in Waikato Business News, July 15 - August 15 2009, by Mike Blake Imagine waking up one morning and deciding you are going to change your life forever. This is exactly what happened in the case of Grant Gaskell. Grant has worked for Industrial Tube Manufacturing Company Limited over the past 16 years. “About three years ago I woke up one morning and thought, I want...
13 November 2008
TheSkills4Work Annual General Meeting is to be held on Thursday 4 December 2008 at 4.00pm at Skills4Work, 15a Vestey Drive, Mount Wellington, Auckland AGENDA APOLOGIES CHAIRMAN'S REPORT CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S REPORT ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER 2007 APPOINTMENT OF AUDITORS ADOPTION OF RULE CHANGES APPROVAL DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION GENERAL BUSINESS...
22 August 2008
The Skills4Work Board is pleased to announce that Rosalie Webster has been appointed as CEO of Skills4Work. Rosalie was General Manager, Strategic Opportunities leading up to this appointment and was a member of the Skills4Work Senior Management Team. In this role, she has established the process to be used for long term strategic planning for Skills4Work, working with the Senior Management Team...
23 July 2008
The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has recently changed its rules around the Workplace Literacy Fund. Employers are no longer required to make a 15% contribution to Literacy and Numeracy training. What does this mean for your business? It means that your business is no longer required to make a financial contribution to Literacy and Numeracy training - instead your ‘contribution’...
2 July 2008
Skills4Work Head Office has moved to new premises. You can find us at 15a Vestey Drive, Mt Wellington, Auckland – just 2 minutes from the Mt Wellington exit of the Southern Motorway. You can still contact us at our free phone number: 0800 2 SKILL Or, email: info@skills4work.org.nz Fax: 09 588 5101 Payroll Fax: 09 588 5116 The new site allows for Skills4Work growth potential, with a...
2 May 2008
As you may already know a number of roles and responsibilities in Skills4Work are transferring back to Competenz. We are pleased to confirm that we’re on track to complete the transfer of functions and staff by June 1, which is a reflection of the positive way that both parties are working together. The functions, and associated staff, that are transferring to Competenz are core parts of...
11 December 2007
Hey guys, Life down here is cruising along pretty good. It’s a pretty awesome place, when we first came down and did our compulsory Antarctic field training, (AFT its an over night camp that everyone has to do to learn a few skills about how to stay alive if caught outside), it was as cold as it has been here at winfly (September and early October). For quite some time we had minus thirty...
15 November 2007
Congratulations to the 2007 Recipients of the Ivan Fisk Scholarship. They are as follows: Nathan Wooderson - Tokoroa - studying Maintenance & Diagnostics Level 5 at Open Polytechnic Pritesh Patel - Hamilton - studying Maintenance & Diagnostics Level 5 at Open Polytechnic Douglas James - Dunedin - studying Maintenance & Diagnostics Level 5 at Open Polytechnic Nicholas Jenks - Auckland –...
17 September 2007
Top achievers in the engineering, manufacturing and food related sectors have been recognised in the third round of regional Skills in Action Awards evenings to take place around the country. The awards for the lower North Island region follow the earlier Auckland/North and Waikato/Bay of Plenty regional awards, recognising and rewarding those who go the extra mile in industry training including...
17 September 2007
New Lynn resident Nyle Buckley is a young man in a big hurry – he raced through his engineering apprenticeship before he was 21 and is now putting his skills to work building and racing his own drag car and others. Nyle’s Skills4Work sponsored Toyota Corona has come a long way from being the conservative shopping trolley New Zealanders know so well – in fact it could do the length of most...