List of job recruitment sites
Free job boards backed by industry
Employment agreement templates
Industry backed job sites:
GoHort Job Board
A free job board to post permanent positions for a hort industry audience, from entry level to senior roles. The GoHort website promotes starting a career in horticulture, with the job board offering an insight to the variety of positions and internships available.
PickNZ
PickNZ is a free job board for employers to list seasonal roles such as harvest, packhouse or thinning work. PickNZ is the go-to site for listing seasonal horticultural roles, and is being backed by industry and government to help fill seasonal vacancies.
Kiwifruit Jobs New Zealand
www.facebook.com/KiwifruitJobsNZ
An NZKGI Facebook page to promote job listings for kiwifruit roles. Job details can be posted direct to the page, or promote listings that are posted on other sites. To post vacancies, fill out the vacancies template here and email it to employment@nzkgi.org.nz. For more information about seasonal work in the kiwifruit industry, visit NZKGI’s labour page here
Apprenticeships:
Let’s Grow
www.letsgrow.co.nz
An apprenticeship program run by Primary ITO. Employers and people looking to become an apprentice can register through the site, where Primary ITO will then organise and support the running of the apprenticeship.
Youth job sites:
Student Job Search
www.sjs.co.nz
For recruiting university students, Student Job Search provides a free service for advertising roles. They also include an over the phone background check on applicants.
Youth Employer
youthemployer.nz
A free service that enables workplaces to register interest in hiring 16-24-year-olds. The site also enables employers to have profiles which list opportunities (other than just jobs) for youths to develop job seeking skills, eg. business walk throughs, CV reviews, mentoring.
Paid services:
Job advertising services that are widely used nationwide, but aren’t specific to horticulture without filtering results. Mixed results from advertising due to lack of specificity.
The main two:
Seek
www.seek.co.nz
Trade Me Jobs
www.trademe.co.nz
Backpacker & migrant job sites:
Backpackerboard
www.backpackerboard.co.nz
An all-in-one backpacker site to find jobs and anything else needed to live and work as a backpacker. It is free for employers to list short term or temporary roles unless they are a recruitment agency.
Seasonal Jobs
www.seasonaljobs.co.nz
A very basic, but free, job site that primarily targets backpackers for seasonal work across all industries. The site also caters to kiwis wanting seasonal work.
New Kiwis
www.newkiwis.co.nz
New Kiwis is a free site by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce site for employers to find skilled staff with international experience and qualifications. The site has a database of CVs, and can offer to shortlist candidates at no cost.
Info for jobseekers & attraction campaigns:
Opportunities Grow Here
www.opportunitygrowshere.nz/horticulture/
This MPI website and promotion campaign was set up to promote opportunities in the primary industries in the wake of Covid-19.
Handpicked
www.summerfruitnz.co.nz/industry/looking-for-seasonal-work
The Summerfruit NZ campaign is promoting summer harvest jobs for summerfruit. The campaign is promoting the use of Work the Seasons for nationwide roles, and SSCO for the South Island.
Tools/Govt jobseeker info:
Connected.govt.nz
www.connected.govt.nz
Connected is an MSD site setup post Covid, and is a one-stop-shop for job-seekers to find work, employers to find support or staff, and info about post-Covid government initiatives. To find staff, the site links to ‘Jobs during Covid’ below.
Jobs during Covid / Keep New Zealand Working
www.jobs-during-covid.workandincome.govt.nz/hello
MSD site to help pair job seekers with employers in the wake of Covid-19.
Student campaign: Discover Possible, Dream Different
www.workandincome.govt.nz/work/job-search
MSD site for students targeted at tertiary students leaving study. The site links to various other job sites and various employment tools.
New Zealand NOW: Your guide to living & working in New Zealand
www.newzealandnow.govt.nz
A promotional govt website which details moving to live, work, study or invest in NZ.
Further job sites:
Careers.govt.nz
www.careers.govt.nz/job-hunting/finding-work/job-vacancy-and-recruitment-websites
For a list of any and all job sites including region specific sites, check this out.