Migrant attraction team returning to UK

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25th - August - 2006

Source: Positively Wellington Business - www.expo-newzealand.com/

Past successes ensures PWB presence for fourth year

To build on recent successes, PWB’s migrant attraction team is again travelling to the United Kingdom to target key skilled migrants interested in moving to the Wellington Region, Chief Executive Philip Lewin announced today.

It is the fourth consecutive year PWB personnel have made the trip and in that time they have helped 434 people settle in the region, while 130 more plan to visit this year with a view to migrating.

PWB’s Cath Randall will participate in the Opportunities New Zealand Expo in London (October 13-15) and Manchester (October 21-22), as well as evening seminars in Bristol, Birmingham and Nottingham in the days between.

Cath will be joined in the United Kingdom by a several representatives of businesses and recruiters from the wider Wellington region.

“There are well-identified skill shortages in the Wellington labour market, and we can help employers fill these gaps,” says Ms Randall.

“The Expo alone will give us the chance to court around 10,000 skilled British and expatriate workers who are looking at moving to New Zealand, on behalf of employers who have contacted us.

“We’ll also offer background information on things like the lifestyle we have here in Wellington – education, housing, the health system – and the wider immigration process.”

Last year PWB helped Porirua City Council find a suitable building compliance manager.

“We advertised extensively in New Zealand, but there is a national shortage of the skills we were after, so we advertised in England and said to contact the PWB stand at last year’s Expo,” says PCC’s general manager David Rolfe.

“Cath’s team filtered out the applicants and recommended a shortlist, then we worked through the shortlist and offered the job to a man who is working through immigration processes as we speak.”

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