Migrants’ skills list no longer ‘secret’

Press, 26 August 1980, Page 22

Migrants’ skills list no longer ‘secret’

PA Wellington The . Immigration Department will publish its list of occupational priorities for intending migrantS' in a bid to streamline- recruitment of skilled overseas workers, The Under-Secretary of Immigration (Mr Malcolm) has announced. , The list to date has been a well kept secret and would-be migrants have had difficulty establishing whether there was a shortage. of workers in their particular profession. Mr Malcolm said publication of the list, which included hundreds of occupational categories, would help New Zealand employers fill vacancies

which they had difficulty filling from within the country. It sets out occupations from which the Government has accepted that there is a continuing need, and will be used by the Labour Department, when assessing applications for the entry of migrants on the basis of their job skills. “The list will be available not only to employers’ organisations, as in the past, but also to individual employers who have a need to recruit from overseas, and to other interested persons as a guide to the skill areas in which entry can be considered,” Mr Malcolm said. -- ■ '- '■ -