Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 1:45 pm
While all sectors are experiencing skills shortages, a
survey underway is finding critical digital skills shortages
impacting all parts of the New Zealand
economy.
NZTech, the organisation tasked with
providing the voice for the technology ecosystem, has been
collecting input via a digital
skills survey which is revealing a desperate need to
find solutions. For the last five years between 4000 to 5000
tech professionals have immigrated to New Zealand. But Covid
has stopped this and it is choking the pace of New
Zealand’s recovery.
NZTech chief executive Graeme
Muller says the survey, which has been in the market a mere