Jo McKenzie-McLean/Stuff Vineyard employers are trying to find creative ways to entice workers with a labour shortage caused by closed borders. (First published October 2020) A Queenstown company is calling on young North Islanders to cross the Cook Strait and spend their overseas experience (OE) in the south. Kiwi OE managing director Blair McNaughton said his recruitment businesses were seeing serious worker shortages in some regions. An October job fair advertised 8000 jobs across Otago and attracted just 274 people . Meanwhile, many people were missing out on the traditional Kiwi OE as international borders remained closed due to Covid-19 , he said. READ MORE: Thousands of jobs go begging because unemployed Kiwis won’t take them South Canterbury businesses seek hundreds of workers ‘This just cannot happen’: $9.5 billion at risk as horticulture sector struggles to fill $25-an-hour jobs His new business aimed to help young New Zealanders get the experience of travelling and socialising with new people, while helping ease labour shortages . The company hoped to entice work-ready people to places like Queenstown with the promise of a job, a place to live, a few weeks' rent and "some epic Queenstown activities". Queenstown Lakes mayor Jim Boult said… Read full this story
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