T H E J O B S L E T T E R 1 5 8
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published in New Zealand 12 December 2001
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SKILL SHORTAGES
TALENT VISAS
JOB ADS SLUMP
ARTISTS AND INNOVATION
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE
SLAVERY ALIVE AND WELL
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E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y
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* Our Diary of key events over the last few weeks. Maori long-
term unemployed, shortfall of junior doctors, Winz bussing
workers, balancing work and family life, poaching health
professionals, job snobs, less jobs in IT, suited employment, a
warning from Nobel laureates ... and much more.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15801.htm
* Reports of skill shortages are emerging in many regions and
sectors of the economy. The government is introducing a
package of skills forecasting initiatives.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#skills
* The pipfruit industry in Nelson is concerned there will not be
enough seasonal workers this summer and autumn.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#nelson
* Skilled workers who are headhunted from overseas to come
to NZ will now get a fast-track through immigration.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#fast
* Numbers of job advertisements have had their biggest
monthly fall in more than three years.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#ads
* The US economy entered a recession eight months ago. In
so doing, it marks the end of a ten-year boom in the USA, the
longest economic boom in 150 years.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#boom
* Petris Simons thinks that unemployed artists should also give
their time to help create innovative answers to community
problems.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#boom
* Geoff Chapple is leading the vision to create a long pathway
from Cape Reinga to the Bluff. He is also the recipient of
CEG�s first grant to a social entrepreneur.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#chapple
* Our native mountain parrot has been adopted as a symbol
of social entrepreneurship.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#kea
* Internal Affairs is redesigning its Community Project Worker
Scheme to now support workers who will be catalysts for
enduring community change.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#cpws
* Enterprise Hamilton is leading a scheme to back small
business clients when they go to the bank with a loan
application.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#ham
* Gordon McVie says that young people no longer expect to
have security of employment. But they can achieve security
of employability.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#mcvie
* Scotland now has an enterprise development campaign
which reaches from primary school to university, and from
unemployed young people to small business executives.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#scots
* Slavery is not a dying institution, but is actually growing
bigger every year.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl15800.htm#slavery
C R E D I T S
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ISSN No. 1172-6695
edited by Vivian Hutchinson for the Jobs Research Trust
P.O.Box 428, New Plymouth, New Zealand
phone 06-753-4434 fax 06-753-4430
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Associates � Rodger Smith, Dave Owens and Jo Howard
Secretary � Shirley Vickery
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and related economic and education issues.
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