Locating & Researching potential Employers

Careers, Internships & Employment recommends that you use one or more of these directories to assist you identify, locate and research potential employers:

New Zealand

• AccessNZ is a searchable directory of websites maintained by New Zealand companies and organisations.
• Creative New Zealand contains a database of New Zealand arts and cultural organisations. You can search by name, organisation type, e.g. theatre companies, Community Arts Councils, etc.
• Family Services Directory (part of the Ministry of Social Development) has a national directory which lists a range of non-government organisations (NGO's) and other social service agencies.
• The Global Register section of MoneyOnline provides information about New Zealand public companies.
• New Zealand Yellow Pages provides contact details for a range of employers, recruitment agencies and much more.
• Search NZ is a New Zealand based search engine, and is thus an easy way to search for New Zealand companies.
• The Universal Business Directory is updated daily and provides accurate infomation on New Zealand businesses.
• The University of Canterbury Library provides information on Government and official information, as well as newspapers and news services information. There is also a Financial Reports collection. Also you can access the Kompass New Zealand database which provides product, contact and other information for New Zealand companies.
• Working in New Zealand contains employer profiles of a number of New Zealand companies.
• Yellow New Zealand contains a popular searches section which lists company and organisation websites from a broad range of industries.
  

International

• BizDirect is a comprehensive directory of Australian businesses.

Careers, Internships & Employment also has some of these directories available in hardcopy in the Resource Area at Okeover.