Zeeta
12th November 2008, 02:46 PM
After musing over this questions for some weeks, I think I'd better post it here and let us muse together :) 'Cause this is something I can't understand by myself.
I am in NZ on a work visa. I have been trying to find a new job - for several reasons - instead of my existing one, and applied to hundreds of job ads, had interviews with dozens of recruitment agencies...
The answer I often get for being rejected is: "sorry, we prefer someone who has permanent residency."
At other times they don't explicitly say it, they just ask when my work permit expires (February 2009, but it's extendable for chrissake), and then they politely turn me down.
Now the latest example I see is the job ads of the Department of Labour at TradeMe. Their ads say: "Applicants must hold NZ citizenship or permanent residency." And then the next sentence is: "The Department of Labour is an EEO employer and invites applications from all sectors of the community."
EEO means Equal Employment Opportunities...
And it's an administration vacancy, not the Head of National Defence Forces...
What is it that makes PR applicants more preferable than work visa holders? - apart from saving the employer the trouble of signing a document for extending the work visa.
Is this even fair or lawful to explicitly state in their ad that skills and talent don't count if you only have a WV?
And kiwis are leaving the country by the thousands, and more and more of the skilled workforce is immigrants on a WV, so I just don't get the point of this.
I am in NZ on a work visa. I have been trying to find a new job - for several reasons - instead of my existing one, and applied to hundreds of job ads, had interviews with dozens of recruitment agencies...
The answer I often get for being rejected is: "sorry, we prefer someone who has permanent residency."
At other times they don't explicitly say it, they just ask when my work permit expires (February 2009, but it's extendable for chrissake), and then they politely turn me down.
Now the latest example I see is the job ads of the Department of Labour at TradeMe. Their ads say: "Applicants must hold NZ citizenship or permanent residency." And then the next sentence is: "The Department of Labour is an EEO employer and invites applications from all sectors of the community."
EEO means Equal Employment Opportunities...
And it's an administration vacancy, not the Head of National Defence Forces...
What is it that makes PR applicants more preferable than work visa holders? - apart from saving the employer the trouble of signing a document for extending the work visa.
Is this even fair or lawful to explicitly state in their ad that skills and talent don't count if you only have a WV?
And kiwis are leaving the country by the thousands, and more and more of the skilled workforce is immigrants on a WV, so I just don't get the point of this.