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Tech talent crunch hits home amid border closures
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Technology companies are having to take extreme, and increasingly expensive measures to find talent, as they are forced to grapple with a worsening talent shortage after more than a year of border closures.
Prior to COVID-19, more than 100,000 migrants came to Australia each year under the skilled migration program, but this was put on hold last year when the pandemic triggered mass border closures.
Arq Group CEO Tristan Sternson went to New Zealand to look for tech talent.
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The lockdowns have resulted in next to no skilled migration into the country, as well as some people on visas returning home to be with their families during the pandemic.