Experience, wisdom, tenure
Our Team
Kevin Chappell’s 40+ years in the recruitment sector places him in a very small professional category.
Back in the 1980s he pioneered Professional Contracting (then known as Executive Leasing) in New Zealand and Australia for a high profile publicly listed international company.
Kevin then spent nearly fifteen years as Managing Director of Executive Taskforce, a high profile and respected group of recruitment companies, before he sold it in 2006.
​With a fresh vision, he set up TalentNow! Initially focusing on regional resourcing at executive and professional level, after several successful years he developed an innovative strategy New Zealand wide, utilising virtual technology as the primary service tool.
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When the 2020 pandemic hit, TalentNow! was able to operate business as usual and grew exponentially during this time to become a successful resourcing solution for organisations across New Zealand.
Kevin Chappell
Principal Director
029-5974739
Amanda Scott is an accomplished recruitment professional with a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years. With a proven track record of excellence, she has become a trusted partner for organisations seeking visionary leadership talent and independent professional contractors for projects and organisational roles.
Amanda consistently demonstrates a keen eye for identifying talent across diverse industries. Her comprehensive understanding of the ever-evolving job market and her ability to grasp the unique needs of each organisation, allows her to deliver exceptional resourcing outcomes, ensuring the right fit for both candidates and companies. A Certified Management Consultant, Amanda brings an added layer of expertise, offering invaluable insights, enabling holistic solutions.
Amanda's success is a testament to her dedication to professionalism, ethics, and transparency. She takes pride in forging lasting partnerships, with an unwavering passion for connecting people and businesses. In demand, Amanda continues to make an impact in executive permanent and contracting recruitment and is a driving force behind transformative career journeys and organisational growth in New Zealand.
Amanda Scott
Consulting Director
021-784483
With 30 years recruiting experience, Teresa Curd specialises in recruiting middle-to-senior level management roles including: contract, interim management and permanent roles across all functional areas in both the private and public sectors.
Taking a best practice and agile approach recruiting, she is service delivery focused, and relationship driven, with many long-standing connections.
Prior to moving into recruitment, Teresa worked in internal audit for private corporate organisations. Her focus was “partnering with the business" providing advice, support and making recommendations on operational improvement, long before business partnering became a buzz phrase. This gave her the ability to gain an understanding of their business and their needs, develop rapport, and become a trusted adviser.
Teresa is a generalist recruiter and uses her significant experience across all areas of permanent and professional contracting roles.
Teresa Curd
Consulting Associate
021-1501225
Matt Travell
Consulting Associate - Digital & IT
022-4754610
Originally from the UK, Matt moved to NZ in 2010. Specialising in finding IT, Digital and project professionals, Matt works with a select group of clients, and provides a recruitment-as-a-service model with other businesses nationwide.
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He is passionate about helping people grow their careers. He assists candidates to make career choices they can be pround of, and which will positively impact them professionally.
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Matt fosters the success of his clients by enabling them to compete for and secure highly sought skills in talent-short markets, in niche disciplines. He is adept at guiding clients on positive people experience, effective on-boarding, and systems and processes.
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He has knowledge of a range of industries and sectors, including Government, Financial Services, SaaS companies, MSPs, and Consulting.
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If you are up against any of the challenges common recruiting in tech businesses - attraction, retention and employment branding - please reach out to Matt.
Dee started her career in the agency recruitment industry over 15 years ago and has successfully completed hundreds of successful searches, helping professionals grow and advance in their careers. She has expereince recruiting and placing candidates in executive roles, office support environments, light industrial and trades positions from various industries.
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Dee extensively interviews both client orgaiisations and prospective candidates to find out who they are and what they are looking for, from both "sides of the desk". She offers both clients and candidates exceptional professional service, absolute confidentiality, and the most ethical values in all areas of recruitment and employment search, career management and talent acquisition.
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Reach out to Dee for a chat today!
Dee Chand
Consulting Associate
021-2363467
Yvonne Abicht
Consulting Associate
027-7707830
Yvonne is originally from the UK, coming to NZ to live in the 1980’s with her Kiwi mother. She had a background in PA/Administration work, but found her true passion 17 years ago when she joined the world of recruitment, and has never looked back.
With a genuine desire to build strong relationships with client and candidates, Yvonne brings a wealth of experience which makes her an excellent Consultant for any business looking for a someone they can trust to deliver top results. Having worked predominantly in the freight and logistics space, Yvonne nevertheless considers herself as a generalist recruiter, and her mantra is ‘never say never’ which means she will persist until she gets the match right for her clients and candidates.
Yvonne has had extensive experience in recruiting sales people for businesses, and she has worked across many other industries including ones such as finance, supply chain, retail, administration and manufacturing. Yvonne brings a high level of integrity to her work, plus an additional dimension in that she is also a qualified careers coach and is currently studying to add Life Coaching to her skill set.
Yvonne is more than happy to receive your call to either discuss your career progression or if you're after that star talent!