Four candidates pulled out in one week. Teresa Jordan, Senior Consultant at Tribe Tech talks about the week that challenged her, self-doubt, resilience and the human side of agency recruitment that rarely gets talked about.

Businesses are hiring again, but the bar has moved. Our Sales, Marketing & Digital team shares what's changed for employers and candidates in 2026.

Tribe Executive has partnered with EY New Zealand on the appointment of Marc Schmid as NZ Director Government & Market Development, based in Wellington, strengthening the firm's presence and client relationships across the region.

Head Start proposals are in and Ministers are making in-principle decisions. The business cases behind those proposals lean on scale, efficiency and removing duplication. The workforce reality is more complicated. In this article, David Hammond looks at where reductions actually occur, why the savings arrive later and smaller than most business cases assume, and why leadership selection is the transition risk councils are least prepared for.

Tribe Group is growing, and we couldn't be more excited. Over the past few weeks we've welcomed four brilliant new team members across our Auckland and Wellington offices, each bringing their own mix of experience, energy and specialist expertise to the Tribe whānau.

When Sigma Healthcare set out to strengthen the supply chain and distribution capability across New Zealand for Chemist Warehouse, they needed more than a recruiter. They needed a partner who understood the complexity of standing up a leadership structure across transport, planning, quality, systems, and operations, all at once, and all in a market they were expanding into.

Last year David Hammond argued that commissioning would push NZ's for-purpose organisations towards consolidation, and that the conditions for mergers were already here. New data this year lets me test that. Most of it holds up, and the evidence behind it is now much better. One part of it was wrong, and David Hammond discusses that here.