Exhibitors

New Zealand’s critical skills shortage

The skills shortage currently affecting New Zealand businesses isn’t a passing problem. In fact, it’s getting worse. With our expanding economy, the lowest unemployment levels for more than 20 years, opportunities overseas enticing our smartest young people, and an ageing population… it’s time to think of recruitment on a global scale.

New Zealand cannot build the growing labour force it needs from within. We are now in direct competition with Australia, Canada, Western Europe and other powerful nations, which also lack talented people. No company can afford to sit back and say, “she’ll be right”.

Strengthen your international recruitment strategy with the Opportunities New Zealand Expo

The expo is the biggest event on the NZ-UK recruitment calendar and draws together New Zealand's most proactive and astute employers with thousands of skilled Brits who want to make New Zealand home.

Over 20,000 talented and experienced people visit the expo each year to find the job that will give them a new life in New Zealand. These people are committed to moving to New Zealand, in fact, 43% of visitors expect to move within 6 months of attending the expo.

87% of visitors identified 'employment' as their primary reason for attending the expo
Contact us to exhibit at the expo.

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The New Zealand Government fully supports and endorses the expo. They have a large stand to assist both visitors and exhibitors with their migration queries.

‘People coming to the expo clearly understood NZ as their destination and had undertaken research about working and living in NZ. They were ready to commit to employment and actively looking at what they needed to do to migrate and get employment’
Andrew Lockhart, Regional Manager, Europe, America and Africa, New Zealand Immigration Service