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School leaver to award-winning chef
Read moreAt just 22, Ashley is already a qualified chef with a big plan to open his own restaurant. He got started when he discovered the only thing he loved at school – the hospitality class. He was also great at it. He graduated with NCEA cooking credits, landed a job in a kitchen and started an apprenticeship.
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Dreary office job to aircraft engineer
Read moreNicole Brian’s career took off by leaving an office job to work in an aircraft hangar. The 24 year-old is on the way to becoming an aircraft engineer by training on-job with Air New Zealand in Christchurch.
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Back to the future
Read moreIn 1977, Lynley Martin got her first taste of the hospitality industry when she took on a casual weekend waitress job clearing plates after the hangi at Rotorua’s THC Hotel. She was just wanting a bit of extra cash to supplement the salary from her full time role at the Department of Forestry, but as things turned out, it was hospitality where Lynley ended up building her exciting career.
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All aboard the Tamaki waka…
Read moreThe bus drivers who take tourists from their Rotorua hotel to the Tamaki Māori Village aren’t bus drivers. They are story tellers who take tourists on an enthralling cultural journey.
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18 years-old and cleared for take-off
Read moreIt’s one thing to dream of piloting a passenger jet from New Zealand to Paris. It’s another thing to commit to a plan and start to make it happen. You can do it, as 18 year-old Ellie McIlraith is proving.
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Jet Park Hotel is flying high
Read moreJet Park Hotel, the highly successful 17-year-old family business near Auckland Airport, welcomes thousands of travellers en route to the rest of the world, or at the end of a long flight to the southern seas.
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New Zealand’s Indiana Jones of Repatriation
Read moreTe Herekiekie Herewini grew up in the 1960s at Rātana Pā, where, he says: “If a family member passed, the whole world would stop”. Today, that reverence and respect is at the heart of his extraordinary job that involves helping to redeem the memory of those who died and were taken far away from New Zealand.
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Award-winning coffee drives fresh retail opportunities
Read moreBP Connect gives motorists a great excuse to visit more often and it’s not just to fill up with fuel! Their ground-breaking Wild Bean Cafe serves delicious, top quality barista-made coffee that brings joy to even the most discerning palate. BP New Zealand’s General Manager of Retail, Frank van Hattum, spills the beans on the company’s unique retail offer.
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Sure to rise: culinary star in her greatest job yet
Read moreLanding her new role as Chef de Partie at Josh Emett’s acclaimed Madame Woo restaurant in Auckland is the latest step up in an exciting tour of work that has taken Tamara Johnson, ServiceIQ Apprentice Chef of the Year 2013, all the way from St Heliers Bay Café & Bistro, to Florida’s Hyatt Regency Hotel, and Food Co-ordinator on popular TV shows ‘My Kitchen Rules’ and ‘Masterchef’.
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Feel Good Food
Read moreFor hospital patients, the prospect of something delicious and nutritious to eat helps dissolve the boredom, which is why a great day for Julia Hawkins, Food Services Manager at North Shore Hospital, is when she knows that the patients enjoyed the dishes they ordered from the menu.