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It’s that time of year again and the Skilled Migrant Programme is back in full swing! As always, thank you for your support for Victoria University's Workplace Communication Programme, fondly known as the Skilled Migrant Programme.

For those of you who don’t know, the Skilled Migrant Programme is a combination of a workplace communication course (run by Victoria University) and an internship, which is aimed at highly-qualified migrants who are either underemployed or unemployed.

The following is an overview of Kirsty Bidwell's presentation at the IPANZ New Professionals conference, on marketing yourself and CV writing.

Marketing Yourself and CV Writing

So let’s start by setting the scene with you. The job market is an ever-changing, volatile beast that continues to move and respond to the local economy, technology, global markets, and politics of the day. What it does demonstrate is that largely unemployment is on the rise. Things have moved since Feb 2010 and the results show that the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.0%.

Pia Penaranda, our Business Manager and the internal co-ordinator of the Skilled Migrant Programme, gave a presentation last week to skilled migrant graduates. The presentation was aimed at new migrants to New Zealand and discussed ways to stand out and be positive about job seeking.

Congratulations to the Skilled Migrants, who attended their graduation ceremony last night! As The Johnson Group’s migrant co-ordinator, I felt extremely proud to attend. The hard work of the students has really paid off, and out of the eleven graduates, six have already received offers of either contract, fixed term or permanent employment.