“New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree to a Job Interview” and The LookSee Wellington Privacy Fail

This is a copy of a post that was back-linked from the Hacker News site recently, regarding paid trips to NZ to attend job interviews. The interviews are for IT/Tech jobs in Wellington (Ed. apparently, New Zealand is short of low-paid, but skilled, tech workers right now so they thought they’d trawl abroad for people).…

Beware the New Points System for “Migrants for Regions”

As most people will tell you, the reason why a quarter of New Zealand’s population live in Auckland is because that’s where most of the jobs are. The remainder are chiefly in Wellington and (rebuild work) in Christchurch. Why then is the NZ government about to award migrants extra application points if they apply to live…

DayZ DayZ, Give Me Your Answer Do

If you’re a budding software developer planning to move to New Zealand you may want to reconsider after learning how low the salaries are. Dean Hall, “creator of DayZ a successful survival game” (in reality an Arma 2 zombie-survival mod) that has since “sold over 3 million copies” may be forced to locate his business…