Migrants’ Tales – IT Whiz Can’t Find A Job

Continuing in our series of Migrants’ Tales, first hand account of the migrant experience in New Zealand taken from locations around the net. Today’s tale was sent in by Charlie, who left it as a comment on this blog. Charlie is American, a high end IT and Corporate Governance Professional with many years of experience.…

Migrants Changing Names To Get Jobs

Lincoln Tan has written another excellent article about the problems that migrants are having finding work in New Zealand during the present tough economic climate. According to Mr Tan an academic says that businesses often eliminate Asian sounding applicants at a very early stage in the interview selection process. Surely that is racial discrimination?: “Desperate…