Redundancies in the Bay of Plenty – A Wake-Up Call for Workers
Over the past year, we’ve seen more restructuring and redundancies across different industries in the Bay of Plenty. From tourism and forestry to professional services, change is creating uncertainty for many workers. What happens next often looks different for everyone.
A Growing Reality in Our Region
Redundancies are no longer rare headlines – they’re a reality for more households across the Bay of Plenty. Over the past year, we’ve seen restructuring ripple through tourism, forestry, and professional services, leaving many workers facing an uncertain future.
What Candidates Can Do
What happens next often looks different for everyone. Some people take it as a chance to retrain or finally make the career change they’ve been putting off. Others need something stable quickly to keep the bills paid. Neither path is wrong. What matters is giving yourself a moment to breathe, then putting small steps in place to stay prepared.
CV Updating and Online Profiles:
Update your LinkedIn and other professional profiles you may have, look into the ways that you can boost your visibility online. There are some great tips on the internet showing how you can get noticed more by recruiters and hiring managers using simple profile tweaks. If your CV is sitting in an old folder from years ago, it might also be time to give it a refresh.
Start Reconnecting:
Get back in touch with past colleagues, mentors, and recruiters like us at Personnel Resources. Our teams in Rotorua, Tauranga, and Whakatāne are always ready to connect with job seekers. It’s always easier to have your network ready before you actually need it. Signing up with our recruitment agency ahead of time is a great backup plan, it puts you on our radar and gives you options if things change quite quickly.
Be Financially Ready:
If you start to feel uncertain about your position at work, it is a good idea to build up a small emergency fund if you can and find out what you’d be entitled to if a redundancy were to happen. Find out more information about redundancies — including redundancy compensation, final pay, and unused leave – on the Employment NZ website.
It’s Not You!
Redundancy is something that can happen to anyone, it’s often about a business change and not your personal performance. Don’t let it shake your confidence, you’re still valuable, capable and full of potential!
We offer CV Writing Services – if you require a CV makeover, including a 1-hour session with an experienced consultant, who will help bring your skills and experience to life. Check out our jobs or get in contact with one of our team members by calling us on 0800 832 677.
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