Some employers hiring non-smokers exclusively, recruiters sayWARWICK SMITH/STUFF If you want to smoke, put on a jacket, go down the road and when you come back brush your teeth and take off the jacket before you attend to the next customer. Not being willing to stub out can snuff out job opportunities for smokers, employers say. Recruitment agencies Employsure and Action Personnel have both reported clients asking to weed smokers from the hiring pool. And between nine and 15 organisations explicitly advertised for non-smokers only or said they were preferred candidates on Seek.co.nz each day this week. CHARLOTTE CURD/STUFF Some employers are clear they want to hire non-smokers only.

Source: Stuff March 23, 2018 05:37 UTC