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“What should you do if your business is constrained by a skilled labour shortage: - Fester? Or Fix It?”

The Northland Chamber of Commerce in Conjunction with Malcolm Pacific are holding a Short informative and interesting lunchtime Seminar on the 23rd may 2007 to assist businesses in recruiting skilled staff.

Aussie Malcolm will present a short presentation on how painless and cost effective it can be to recruit staff internationally. Aussie Malcolm says ‘there is a significant, low cost, pool of skilled labour available out of the migrant market to which employers deny themselves access because they don’t know how do go about tapping in to it. A new skill-set is required and if that is understood, the process can become easy, timely, and inexpensive.,

There are three ways in which we can increase the supply of skilled people to the Labour Market. We can MAKE – Educate and guide our younger citizens into the relevant skillsets, BUY – through importing skilled migrants or FIX - Upskilling the work force we have.

Chambers of Commerce all over New Zealand are telling us that a shortage of skilled labour has been identified nationally as a major restraint on business growth. Malcolm Pacifics Seminar is obviously an attempt to ‘BUY’ a solution which can provide Northland Business with some realistic solutions today

‘In a provincial centre the problems become compounded. Lack of skilled staff hampers growth; but recruiting in a skill-short market itself creates significant extra one-off direct costs; while the incentives that may be needed to attract staff can fundamentally and permanently change wage relativities and internal cost structures’.

Hon. Aussie Malcolm will be lead presenter, supported by a team from his Auckland office. Malcolm Pacific has worked out of Whangarei for a number of years and Aussie himself lives in Tutukaka where he is major shareholder in award winning Dive! Tutukaka, commuting weekly between, as he puts it, “the biggest and the best two cities in NZ”.

The format will be a workshop directed towards giving employers the skill sets that will enable them to solve skill shortages painlessly. The Seminar is to be held on 23rd May.
at 12 oclock. Lunch provided, workshop free. Venue: Northland Cricket Pavilion, Okara Drive.Whangarei.

All Northland Businesses are invited to attend this seminar, including Councils, Government Agencies and anyone that would benefit from skilled labour.

Contact Janette at the Northland Chamber of Commerce to register.

The Northland Chamber of Commerce is the networking, education, advocacy and marketing group for Northland business, and is part of a nationwide network of 30 and a world-wide movement of 21,000 chambers. Subscription to the free fortnightly chamber e-news can be arranged on info@northchamber.co.nz. Enquiries to 09-4384771 or www.northchamber.co.nz, www.kaiparachamber.co.nz and www.farnorthchamber.co.nz
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