{"id":628897,"date":"2026-10-13T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628897\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:46:10","slug":"west-auckland-butcher-gets-1000-applications-for-meat-packer-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628897\/","title":{"rendered":"West Auckland butcher gets 1000 applications for meat packer job"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI thought, \u2018Oh my God, that\u2019s so many.\u2019 But then our admin said, \u2018No, you\u2019ve got another 870-odd on SEEK\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re still coming through now, so over 1000 … for a meat packer\u2019s role. So pretty overwhelming actually.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like, \u2018Oh, how do I deal with this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The interest was crazy he said, as was the expertise among the applicants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the biggest difference was I could have started up lots of businesses. I had someone that had 20 years of aviation security experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those vying for the job included several rest home workers and a computer engineer.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Could] probably build something and go to Mars … with all the people that actually applied.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was daunting to see people looking for work whose skill sets were \u201c10, 20 times\u201d what was required, Sharples said.<\/p>\n

After trawling through the applications, he ended up hiring three people, including an apprentice.<\/p>\n

His advice to young people looking for work was to avoid showing up with parents and also to tap into friends and family networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd just keep on doing it because you\u2019ve got to come across positive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI thought, \u2018Oh my God, that\u2019s so many.\u2019 But then our admin said, \u2018No, you\u2019ve got another 870-odd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20299,14105,51,138,74026,2082,6276,3112,3822,1304,111,139,69,100840,1560,3807],"class_list":["post-628897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-20299","tag-applications","tag-auckland","tag-business","tag-butcher","tag-for","tag-gets","tag-job","tag-meat","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-packer","tag-report","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}