TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY - NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA

Can you measure up?

This is not a ‘franchise’ offer.

Our South Island Associate (Roger - Christchurch) has gone to that big training room in the sky (we miss him heaps),

and Deborah (Auckland) needs to spend more time with her family of four. We also want to identify a Wellington Associate

  STA Associates are contractors who utilise STA’s name and generic products to build their own ‘business-within-a-business’, receiving the majority share of the revenue they generate. Assistance is given to provide business and/or networking skills to training professionals who may be academically qualified and fully experienced in the practical application of their profession, but lack the commercial awareness and skills required to survive and grow as a Consultant.

This is not an employed position – it is an independent contractor status under an exclusive contract,
where the ‘exclusivity’ relates only to the provision of training and training-related services.

This is not a Franchise offer. There is nothing for sale here.

An STA Associate position cannot be purchased.

 STA Training has been providing service to all sectors of the market since 1990 and has been NZQA Registered & Accredited since 1994. Its accreditation range, mostly at level 4 & 5, is wide but not currently well used by the market, making up less than 1% of total revenue. It has a stable and broad client base with a high proportion of repeat users. Its reputation is spotless and due to a continuous marketing strategy over many years is well known in NZ. The client base is National as are the services offered. Most of its work is performed as customised in-house training workshops, utilising a core of generic programmes as a base. It also offers a full range of generalist HR services. Our website has become our most used marketing tool, to the extent that we no longer print glossy brochures.

STA has survived in tough times where others have failed mainly because of its reputation but also because of a philosophy of low overhead – there are no salaried support staff or office premises. STA Associates work from home offices and all costs incurred in doing a job are recoverable from the client.

If you are an experienced adult trainer, ready to break from the ‘salary shackles’, we would like to hear from you.

The minimum expected educational qualification is either a Certificate in Adult Teaching (or the further CATE version of that), or a Diploma in Adult Teaching. A Degree would need to include paper(s) in Training & Education. Diploma-level HR qualifications including papers in Training & Development are also appropriate.

If you don’t have the formal qualifications, but can prove significant experience in Adult Training whether that is in the public or commercial sector, and if you are prepared to commit to gaining the minimum qualifications in the short term, then we would like to hear from you too.

What we’re looking for are people with excellent relationship skills who can work with clients holding a Customer Service philosophy above all, who can carry out a TNA, customise our core workshops to give best fit, present the workshop and then evaluate and report it.

A warm, friendly, humorous, tolerant personality is a key to success.

Business skills – those associated with running your own business, financial reporting and compliance can be supplied in the short term until you are ready to take control.

You will need some form of capital investment sitting in an account somewhere to pay your bills – it takes about 6 months to get yourself established.

By all means email us with your questions, at steve@sta.co.nz. Check us out on the web, too, at http://www.sta.co.nz

When you’re ready to apply, send your CV to the same email address, telling us you've seen this page. Background checking will only be carried out with your written permission, and not until the stage in the process when it is possible that an offer might be made.

One of the biggest blocks to becoming independent, is Self Doubt. Consider this:

You’ll still be just as professional, just as good at your job, when your salary stops…

What better way to find out how good you really are, than to let the market decide that.

 Carpe Diem

Steve Punter

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