Training your staff

In a tight labour market recruitment and retention of staff is a major challenge for employers.  When employees are able to make considered choices about their career paths, smart employers add value to the positions they offer through training and improvement opportunities.

There are a number of benefits to employers through offering training programmes to their employees:

• Improving recruitment numbers.  Increasingly new recruits want to know where the job can take them, not just how much they'll get paid
• Improving retention.  Employees will believe that your business supports their career pathway and can assist them along it
• Upskilling of your people and recognition of those new skills, which in turn can improve quality of work and productivity
• Increased motivation and morale in your workplace.

Industry training is also very cost-effective.  It is subsidised through funding arrangements Seafood ITO has with New Zealand training and qualifications authorities.