Working in New Zealand

New Zealand has an equal opportunities system in place and they are proud of it! They are seen to be open minded, tolerant and fair.

All New Zealand work places are smoke free places but many workplaces do provide areas set aside for smokers.

The New Zealand economy has made a gradual shift from the production of goods to services, so manual skills are gradually declining with communication skills being more and more in demand.

Employers are asking for literacy and numeric skills more than the vocational skills from their prospective employees. They see the literacy, numeric and problem solving skills as being essential to the constantly changing workplace.

New Zealand has a comparably low unemployment rate of 4% coupled with first rate workplace conditions.