Develop highly skilled teams within your business
Looking to build your team’s skills? Let us customise a training plan that meets your business’ needs and supports your teams to get nationally recognised qualifications.
- Grow your business with qualified workforce-provide training that’s tailored to the needs and requirements of your business
- Develop talent that matches your needs
- The value in return is greater than the cost
- Lower your recruitment cost and maximise your profit
- Training can take place in your workplace, minimising disruption and maximising impact
We can help you find a suitable apprentice.
Contact a Competenz account manager or our customer support team
If you have an account manager, talk to them about finding someone to suit your business. Or talk to one of our national or regional managers here.
Contact the Competenz customer support centre.
Contact ATNZ (engineering apprentices only)
Our training partner, the Apprentice Training Trust New Zealand, is New Zealand’s largest employer of engineering apprentices. ATNZ employs apprentices and places them with companies willing to train an apprentice in their workplace. www.atnz.org.nz
Contact our Competenz careers team
Our careers team works with schools in your area to identify and place suitable students. You can contact them on 0800 526 1800 or info@competenz.org.nz.
Sign up an existing employee
You know their work ethic, they know your ways of working, and an apprenticeship is a great way to build their loyalty!
Our training programmes help your employees gain the skills they need to work productively and safely. They may result in a completed apprenticeship after three or four years of on-the-job study, or a New Zealand or National Certificate (a qualification recognised on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework).
Our account managers work with you to explain our training programmes and develop a training plan, based on these programmes, to meet the specific skills of your business.
Building a training plan to support your business
Our account managers work with you to understand your business and the skills you need. Then they agree a tailored training plan with you to help your employees gain those skills. Most of this learning takes place on-the-job.
Supporting your employees’ learning
We provide training materials and eLearning, visit your workplace to check on progress, and arrange for your employees to complete any off-job training they need.
Confirming your employees’ skills
We arrange assessments to confirm your employees have built their skills, and register their success with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.
The benefits of national qualifications
Training on-the-job to nationally recognised qualifications, like the New Zealand Certificates and National Certificates Competenz offers, benefits everyone involved:
- As an employer you can be confident that the skills your employees are gaining meet industry standards.
- Your employees can be confident that they’re gaining skills that are recognised across their industry.
Why are there two sets of national qualifications?
New Zealand Certificates are replacing National Certificates over the next two years. We’ve worked closely with experts in our industries to review and update the National Certificates to ensure they meet changing needs. The New Zealand Certificates, which we are rolling out through 2015 and 2016, are the result.
The government and our industries will continue to recognise the National Certificates as valid, relevant qualifications.
How are the qualifications nationally recognised?
New Zealand Certificates and National Certificates are listed on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework. A government agency, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA), manages these qualifications on behalf of New Zealand industries.