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Want Motivated Loyal Ambitious staff??

The Northland Chamber of Commerce has often bemoaned the lack of suitable staff available to Northland Business over the last few years. As the Economy has boomed the availability of staff has decreased accordingly.

We were absolutely thrilled to be involved in the employers evening as part of the ‘our stories’ exhibition at Rathbone house.

Employers were able to testify about hiring people with disabilities. The overwhelming message we heard was that these people are Hard Working, Ambitious, Loyal and quite often outshine some of the more able bodied people.

Kyle Donavon from Donavon’s talked about employees that were hard working, flexible and willing to carry out the most basic of tasks with a sense of value and importance which reflected the employee’s personal pride in work. Sick leave was a rarity and punctuality couldn’t be faulted.

We feel that as the Economy starts to restrict and more and more Compliance around employing people is pushed onto employers that there is an even more compelling reason to call Karen at IDEA or Johnny at the Tiaho trust to enquire about hiring people who live with disabilities. You will find that these employees are also very flexible and often relish the opportunity to work say part time or carrying out some of the duties that others may not find so appealing. There is also a lot of assistance to help you as an employer make the decision to hire disabled people including financial assistance.

On another note the Westpac Northland Business Excellence awards is well under way. Check out the website at www.northlandbusinessawards.co.nz and send through your recommendations of busienses that you thionk may be an excellent business and well deserving of an entry in this years awards.

The Northland Chamber of Commerce is the networking, education, advocacy and marketing group for Northland business, and is part of a nationwide network of 30 and a world-wide movement of 21,000 chambers. Subscription to the free fortnightly chamber e-news can be arranged on info@northchamber.co.nz. Enquiries to 09-4384771 or www.northchamber.co.nz, www.kaiparachamber.co.nz and www.farnorthchamber.co.nz

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