WORKFORCE

With access to a working age population of just under 110,000 people from across Hawke’s Bay, you’ve got choices when it comes to staff. Our diverse, skilled, and stable workforce positions your business to take advantage of a strong regional economy with the numbers and diversity to support larger scale employers. Over a third of the working age population is degree-qualified (or higher).

Still can’t find who you need? Attracting talented staff to Hastings, particularly those with families, is relatively easy with a broad range of career, study, and lifestyle options to suit all tastes. We also present opportunities to help you create your own workforce via tailored, work-ready programmes delivered through Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) generating a ready stream of employee candidates.

Attracting the right talent from other regions or other countries is part of our greater regional economic development strategy, Matariki. There’s a team getting things done now – they’re working on tactics to help bring the right people here which will include providing information to support repatriation and resettlement.