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Closing the talent gap - where are the skilled staff?

From restaurants to rocket-builders — businesses of all sorts share a common problem: Finding enough skilled staff. Anthony Doesburg reports.

House prices picked to keep rising

Rising interest rates have yet to dent people's expectations that house prices will continue to rise over the year ahead, especially in Auckland and Canterbury.

Employment Court wait 'extraordinary'

Brian Fallow: Economic indicators that drive voters

As the general election approaches political opinion polls are coming thick and fast.

How to embrace new employees

Tips on getting new hires adjusted to the social and performance aspects of their new jobs quickly and smoothly.

Apple reveals its worker diversity figures

The world's most valuable firm is the latest to report diversity numbers amid a debate about whether women and minorities are underrepresented at tech firms.

Job seeking tip: get amped

It's the type of music that makes you want to sing out loud in the car or let loose on the dance floor - but listening to bass-heavy music like 50 Cent can also boost your confidence before an interview.

Shift gear to get job back on track

Most of us will experience career dissatisfaction some time in our working life, but working life doesn't have to be this way

House sales down across New Zealand

House sales fell 13 per cent in July as winter cooled the appetite of house hunters, but the national median price is still up $31,000 from a year earlier.

Labour market unlikely to boost wages

Employment growth slowed in the June quarter and outside Canterbury it stalled altogether.

NZ job prospects sunnier at last

For the first time since the global recession hit, it is now easier to find a job in New Zealand than in Australia.

Brian Fallow: Jobs data sign of economic slowdown

The jobs numbers out yesterday were less encouraging than the headline drop in the unemployment rate to 5.6 per cent suggests.

The dark side of those extra hours

When carpenter Samuel Parnell arrived in New Zealand in 1840, he was asked by a shipping agent to build a store on Lambton Quay.

What to know about Argentina's weird default

Argentina didn't default because it couldn't pay its bondholders. It defaulted because a New York judge wouldn't let it pay its bondholders.

Serco aims to give prisoners skills

Prisoners at Auckland's new $300 million private men's jail could be building or fixing metal skip bins.

Clock is ticking for cheap credits

Cheap imported carbon credits comprised 99.5 per cent of the units New Zealand emitters used to meet their obligations under the emissions trading scheme last year.

Fight over comma sinks WTO deal

A fight over a comma in a 65-page document helped spark the collapse of the biggest trade deal in the World Trade Organization's 19-year history.

Abused the boss? You're hired

ERA decisions in the past two years show workers frequently receive compensation after being unjustifiably fired for swearing at, or threatening, their bosses.