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BUZZ wins National Travel Recruiter Award 2009

By Gareth Bissland on December 11th, 2009 in BUZZ, General, Travel | No Comments

Travel Digest AwardsHigh-fives and ringing of the BUZZ Gong around the office this week with the exciting news we had been named “Leading Travel Recruitment Company” in the 2009 Travel Digest Awards. Travel Digest is New Zealand’s leading monthly travel industry magazine.

Congratulations to my fellow Owner & Director Ben Crossen who single handedly manages our Travel & Hospitality Divisions.
In the three short years since BUZZ has been in operation we have had a huge amount of repeat business and a lot of new clients, both stand alone, and part of the national chains and franchises. This is all testament to Ben’s natural ability to find and then perfectly match the candidates into the different operations and complete understanding of all the business models in the market, not to mention all the BUZZ bars he has on him each time he visits a client :)

We’d like to congratulate all the other winners in the awards, some of which are our clients, and thanks everyone you had an input on the results. We look forward to the market picking up in 2010 and now with an office in the North Island look forward to providing more of our BUZZ service throughout NZ.

Gareth Bissland

Excerpt from Dec 2009 Travel Trade

Excerpt from Dec 2009 Travel Digest

We’ve moved North … Our New Wellington Branch opens.

By Gareth Bissland on September 29th, 2009 in BUZZ | No Comments

In what we think will be a welcomed addition to the Wellington Hospitality & Hotel industries, we are excited to announce have added a Lower North Island arm to our successful recruiting and talent management business.

After feedback from our increasing amount of North Island clients and candidates, we know recruitment is a face to face business and we wanted to make sure we could deliver personally.

David Thompson is fresh from Australia, but don’t let the slight Aussie accent fool you, he has worked all around NZ, with his family firmly embedded in Wellington. David has held Management positions with some of the largest and boutique hotel chains on both sides of the Tasman and has run his own successful restaurant. He has a wide array of upto date industry knowledge as well as an entire career lifetime of experience in the hospitality industry.

BUZZ has already built up what must be one of the largest database of high calibre hospitality workers in New Zealand over the last 3 years so David has hit the ground running to assist hospitality outlets prepare for the onslaught of volume that summer brings by introducing motivated hospitality professionals to their new roles.

Working daily within his area of expertise, David certainly has his finger on the pulse, and he is able to consult with you, assist with putting your HR timelines in place and working with you to forecast when stellar staff will end in a profitable outcome, ongoing business and your venue a top choice for job seekers.

It’s a time to prepare and invest well rather than reacting to the market and a recruitment professional can help you make the best hiring decision for your business.

David can be contacted at david@buzzrecruitment.co.nz or 0273 444 409