Hays

Hays is a specialist recruitment business operating in New Zealand, with offices across the North and South Islands. It says it has over 50 years' experience and a workforce of more than 11,100 people across 30 countries.

In New Zealand it fills permanent, temporary and contract roles, and also offers executive search, interim appointments, contractor management outsourcing, recruitment process outsourcing, managed service programmes and volume hiring. Its job areas include accountancy and finance, technology, engineering, construction, legal, banking, energy and office support, where roles range from receptionists and office managers to executive assistants. Advisory services cover salary benchmarking, assessment and development, career transition and technology advisory.

It recruits in Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Tauranga, Dunedin, Hamilton and Napier-Hastings. For the year ended 30 June 2021 Hays reports placing around 60,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 220,000 people into temporary roles.