Yes, the "refreshed" one !
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Most people leave Greenpeace membership off their CV as often a no no for many employers
It gets better..
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/9199...e-claim-untrue
"Can a new-look Labour take on National?
Yes, of course 31% (2453)
No, they look weak 59% (4671)
I don't know 5% (421)
I don't care 5% (391)"
http://nz.yahoo.com/
Great to see business owners expecting job growth and an overall good underlying growth and confidence in the economy. Steady as she goes !
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11130033
Yes Iceman, good to see, although in my area any extra employment might be more limited. A lot of it driven by the ChCh rebuild.
Brian Fallow has this to say about productivity in NZ, it's trailing in the first-world countries list. Has been for some years.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11130048
I've been doing some more research into the govt's business funding. Large scale grants to big businesses are there, out of the question for SMEs. Next down is project grants, and these are 40% of all costs, but it's preferred the firm doesn't do its own R&D, they'll need quotes from other firms or CRIs etc. Part of this is a $5000 grant for initial scoping, easy enough to get. Last is student stipends, and there are Masters and PHD stipends of up to $20,000 a year for slower long term work, and some 3month partial grants for undergrad holiday jobs. But there are only 200 of these undergraduate grants for the entire student population each year. Some universities have their own schemes to help subsidise student mentoring and overheads.
A new booklet out from MBIE on medium-high and high-tech businesses shows not much change to a low level of investment compared to outputs over the last few years.
We're stuck in the sidelines. Larry Ellison is showing us all that investing in NZ businesses and staff can make fast turnarounds in performance possible.
Agree productivity is a huge issue for NZ and has been for many many years. My industry is a good example where for example we employ lots of people hand filleting fish. In Norway, they stopped hand filleting 30 years ago and now utilise their people to make the filleting machines instead and sell them all around the World.
Unfortunately many industries in NZ are similar and we even have people, even on this thread, suggesting such and similarly outdated jobs should be protected !
Can you imagine NZ under a Labour/Green govt, with significant union power behind labour, and the return to the stone age philosophy of the Greens. I started my working life in the 60s when NZ was dominated by vicious unions, and just as bad was our old fashioned methods of anything mechanical with horrible import restrictions. I still shudder when I think of those days, and the sadly wasted opportunities.