The Weekend Sun
Friday 20 September 2019
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They’re ‘upgrading’ to a trade TAURANGA Join the parkrun family RUN, JOG, WALK
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Left to Right: Students Jakob Lekner, RJ Deiondre and Brooke Burney at the ‘Upgrade The Trade’ event this Thursday.
Job-seeking secondary students linked with employers to explore careers in trades and services at Tauranga’s first Upgrade with a Trade at Atrium Café yesterday. Students participate in a ‘speed meet’ where they sit down with a range of local and national employers for five-minute mini-interviews. Work experience, on-the-job training, an apprenticeship or employment may be offered to successful candidates. This event follows the Katikati and Rotorua speed meets that were held on August 27 and September 18 respectively. The Katikati event resulted in more than 100 matches, meaning employers will
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be linked with these students to progress conversations on potential opportunities in their industry. Tauranga Girls College year 12 student Paris Robertson says the speed meet enables her to gain experience in being interviewed. “I’m going to learn about different jobs, hopefully one that I will like and an employer who wants to offer me a job. “If the right match is there for me or if there is someone there who inspires me then it could impact my career pathway plans,” says Paris. “A successful day for me would be the offer of a job that I’m excited for.” Eurofins is one of the employers that participated in the Katikati and Tauranga events. It provides scientific testing and support services across a broad range of
industries including food, pharmaceutical, environmental and agriscience sectors. Eurofins’ Donald Meikle-Cameron says, “positive engagement with our community is one our core values. “The speedmeet events involve our youth, the one thing our company is passionate about. We find it as an efficient way o meeting a number of candidates already interested in finding work quickly. This event has come about through community collaboration between CATE Tauranga & Priority, the Ministry of Education, Got a Trade? Got it Made!, employers and industry training organisations. For more information about Upgrade with a Trade, go to: www.gotatrade.co.nz/events.
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