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Create your Job Profile
Today we’ve made our new Jobs Profiles available to every Trade Me member.
Give yourself the best chance of finding the perfect job by creating a Job Profile. It's quick and easy, and will showcase your skills and experience to recruiters and employers.
Create a profile now to make the most of these benefits when they’re released over the next few months: More...
Scheduled maintenance
Trade Me will be unavailable on Saturday, 18 November between 2:00 am and 5:00 am for scheduled maintenance.
All auctions that are due to close between 2:00 am and 5:00 am will be extended by four hours.
We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
'Entry level' positions and Youth Hub
Trade Me Jobs has partnered with Youth Hub, which is an online platform which connects young people to educators, service providers, and businesses.
As part of our partnership with Youth Hub, when you list a job tagged as 'entry level' on Trade Me Jobs, it will also be promoted for free on Youth Hub.
Check out our help page
Changes to the Top Seller programme
From 4 December 2017, only sales made through the general Trade Me Marketplace will contribute to Top Seller qualification. Any sales from Property, Jobs or Motors will not be counted toward the programme eligibility.
If you are a Top Seller on 4 December, the benefits for your non-general item sales will continue until 15 January 2018 or the end of your qualification period, whichever occurs first.
Please check out this handy seller blog post for more information.
We’ve updated our ‘in trade’ policy
As we announced on 26 October, our new ‘in trade’ policy comes into effect today. Members who are ‘in trade’ can no longer turn their status off.
We’ve made the change so buyers can be confident about which purchases are protected under NZ consumer law.
Sellers that have previously sold both ‘in trade’ and personal items from the same account will no longer be able to differentiate the two via listing description, but will need to have two accounts – one for each purpose. More...