Key Skills welcomes Ati to the team

Key skills are proud to announce a new addition to their team – Ati Aaifou-Olive. Ati has worked in Industrial recruitment specialising in Manufacturing and Logistics sector for 7 years. Ati has just returned from a season of playing rugby in Ireland, prior to this he spent 2 years playing rugby in Scotland.

“Being in recruitment since 2002 has proven to me that it’s an industry that is always on the go, and you have to be on your game at all times, I love the challenges it brings. The differing needs and demands of both clients and candidates ensures your day is definitely varied! I’m really keyed up to be part of a great team and I am ready to add to the positive values Key skills offer to recruitment”

Outside of work Ati loves to be with his wife and 1year old daughter, playing rugby and other outdoor sports. He is also involved in developing sports projects for his local community.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all our hard working temps, here's a wee piccie of the temp with the biggest hours for the last 2 weeks....the lovely Joan, traffic controller for Hawkins on Willis Street, well done girlie!

Have a great break everyone, if you have any questions about public holiday pay/timesheet schedules etc don't hesitate to call.

Work place drug testing

Recently we completed our certificate in drug testing through ESR (ESR’s collecting agents are trained to follow strict procedures to comply with the requirements of the Australian/New Zealand Standard, AS/NZS 4308:2001 "Procedures for the collection, detection and quantitation of drugs of abuse in urine ). This means we are qualified to complete pre screening and post accident drug testing on our staff. The course was intensive, some of the things we learned were real eye openers such as:

- Eating Meal Mates prior to a drug test can produce a false positive!

- Drug use can attribute to 66% higher rate of absenteeism

ESR educated us on the different sampling options currently available. One option is onsite testing where results are given on the spot. Although this is possible the process is not as thorough and can lead to false positives where someone who has taken codeine based panadol or even had a bun with poppy seeds on it will return a false positive result! The most efficient method to drug test someone is to send samples taken by certified testers directly to ESR. Results are in within 24 hours, but will clear up if someone has taken drugs or has just eaten a tasty baked snack.

If you have questions around the process of drug testing please feel free to email us or give us a call.

Introducing Key Skills Newest Consultant!

Key skills are proud to announce a new addition to their team - Josh Galuszka. Josh worked in industrial recruitment specialising in the construction sector for 5 years before taking a 2 year break to work as a programme manager for an NGO.


"Having only worked in recruitment since I left uni I wanted to try something else to see what it was like. Working in the public sector was certainly a bit of an eye opener, but I missed the constant interaction with clients and candidates that comes with recruitment. Although things have certainly changed over the last two years I'm pumped to be back in recruitment."


When not at work you can find Josh walking the hills looking for deer in the Ruahines, Rimutaka and Tararua ranges, Diving the south and Wairarapa coast lines and/or playing a bit of footy for Hutt Old Boys Marist Rugby club.






Josh will be calling around many of his past clients over the next couple of weeks and would love to hear from anyone out there wanting to catch up.

You can call Josh on 04 920 1695 or email him on josh@keyskills.co.nz

It's CHRISTMAS!!!!

The first of the Christmas lunches took place today and hopefully put a few smiles on a few faces and some good tucker in some famished bellies! Thank you to all the fabulous gentleman and ladies that have worked their asses off this year in the name of Key Skills Recruitment, we salute you! .......Check out the pictures....

The Toy run

What an awesome day!! The Harley Owners Club sure can organise a good gig. The weather held out and apart from being a little blustery things went swimmingly. We must mention DJ in particular and we hope that now that it is all over he can go back to having 8 hours sleep per night!

It was so funny seeing the juxtaposition of big burly bikers with cuddly stuffed toys strapped to their bikes!

We hope that all the efforts made by this very generous people helps spread a little more Xmas joy across the Wellington region...well done guys! ......and thanks for all the Key Skills plugs! x

Toy Run countdown

2.5 days to go until the Toy Run, thanks to DJ from the Harley Owners Group for wearing our VERY bright T-shirt today on the "Good Morning" show, TV1. All bikes welcome $10 entry fee, all proceeds go to the Salvation Army, see you at Mana, 6th December at 9am!