This is an interesting article from a few months ago about NZ businesses "crying out" for IT skills. Certainly I can say that migrants I have met in the IT field generally seem to have work. I can't say if they have an exact match but it does seem to me that IT professionals are employable and that demand for their skills is more robust than other areas. This is good news for potential migrants, especially those who are planning to take the plunge and come over to visit with a view to finding work. Such leaps of faith are daunting, but a positive assessment by someone as influential as the head of Google NZ adds some comfort.
He also notes that there are 100 "digital IT" roles on the massively popular placement website www.seek.co.nz . I'm not au fait with IT speak so I can't clarify what the exact description of a digital role would be, but I can say that as at today seek is showing 869 IT roles advertised in the last 7 days. This really does show a healthy industry by NZ job standards.
It is my hope that New Zealand develops itself into a design and technical hub, maximising a great infrastructure, highly literate population, ethical business environment and out-of-the box attitudes that result in creative solutions that punch way above its weight. This will take forward thinking government policy in various areas such as R&D incentives and investment in training and telecommunications infrastructure, but it will also rely on importing readily available skills in the form of migrant capital.
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