Hi Carol, hi all, while talking to IT recruiters, I got impression that they estimate about 10% of IT jobs are never advertised in Auckland, about 30% in Wellington, and about 80% in Christchurch.
Part of the problem is that there is no weekly publication to advertise jobs in (AKL has Computerworld, WEL InfoTech) Fact is, IT job market in CHC does not exist. In this kind of environments, it matter far less what you know, then who you know. This is unhealthy situation for the industry to be in. "We" are letting people like this get away on daily basis - usually without media attention. One of the saddest cases personally was my friend from Canada, one of the core team that designed US GPS satellite systems, who was unable to get a __INTERVIEW__ in one internationally known CHC company that is heavy user of GPS technology... So what can we do? In the spirit of "Ask not that your industry can do for you"... I am proposing to create a "CHC-IT" weekly email newsletter - it would contain information about IT events and non-events in CHC in past 7 days, (yes, including statistics from Friday's BBQ :-) and at the same time serve as the place where job seekers would be able to present there skills. Basically, I would just put together all the info sent to me (events, job adds, articles, job seeker summaries, etc...) maybe add a little, and compose an email that will be sent to all subscribers. Obviously, this will be possible only if there are people out there interested in CONTRIBUTING information, as well as RECEIVING it. If I get at least 20 subscriptions, this is what I'll do. Needless to say, all suggestions are more then welcome. Cheers, Yours, Andrej Falout, http://falout.org/disclaimer.html Project manager, Aubit project: http://aubit4gl.sf.net Software architect, http://maketxt.com/ PLEASE NOTE: All HTML email sent to me WILL BE DELETED AUTOMATICALLY WITHOUT READING. > -----Original Message----- > From: Carol Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:03 > To: Canterbury Software Email Forum > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [csforum] Are we going to let this one get away? > > > Did anyone not see the story in Tuesday's Press about the extremely well > qualified and experienced American website developer who has been looking > for work here for eight months and is now packing his bags to return home > with his skills? > > Homeward bound > 25 March 2003 > Where are all the IT jobs in Christchurch? Will Harvie talks to an American > web developer who is preparing to back his bags and head home after having > no luck jobhunting. > See the full story here: > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2355956a28,00.html > > and if you have an opening, or know of someone who does, please email him > asap. > > He's Aaron Parkening mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks in anticipation > > Carol Webb > WebbWords > 32 Lindsay St > St Albans > Christchurch > Tel: 03 377-6402 > E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.globe.net.nz/~carol > > > > > > --> via Canterbury Software email forum: Success through Connections > Email your messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Searchable list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Leave or rejoin the list: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm > --> via Canterbury Software email forum: Success through Connections Email your messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave or rejoin the list: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm
