Tui Needham

Experience

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  Kiwikiwi Consultants

  Mar 1999 - Jul 2003

  Employment Consultant

  Secured a contract for five consecutive years to run ‘Women Returning to Work’ programmes in liaison with Continuing Education, University of Waikato.Delivered quality career and job seeker services resulting in ongoing recommendations and referrals from past clients.Utilised a simple, low cost marketing strategy to secure referrals from reputable personnel agencies in the Waikato.

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  Careers New Zealand

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2006

  Career Consultant

  Used a wide range of career tools and computerised systems to help diverse client groups and individuals with career decision making.Developed and facilitated workshops on career development and job seeking.Consistently met and often exceeded targets for national projects for working with Maori and unemployed adults.Analysed regional labour market information from various sources, carried out interviews for research purposes and wrote labour market reports.

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  Waikato Institute of Technology

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Career Centre Manager

  Provided quality career services for students and staff.Identified and implemented improvement initiatives for the development of the career centreIntegrated IS systems and new processes to enhance client services.Mentored and provided peer support to career centre staff and managed performance.Ensured smooth operations through effective staffing and use of resources.

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  CareersWithTui

  Jan 2008 - now

  Career Development Consultant

  Deliver professional career and outplacement services for local Iwi, government, community health and tertiary institutes in the Waikato.Train Career Consultants in the use of an online Career Exploration System, known as Intelligent Career Card Sort (ICCS-R).Provide professional career, job search and interview coaching services for individual clients.

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  Workhub Services

  Feb 2023 - now

  General Manager

  Oversee and manage business operations and projectsLead, develop and coach staffAssess and improve systems and processes