Work In New Zealand

New Zealand has the work-life balance just right. It's why it consistently leads international quality-of-life surveys. New Zealanders believe life is for living. It’s about balancing a good day’s work with time for family and friends plus all the recreation and wide open spaces our country offers.

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Working hard and getting ahead is important to New Zealanders. They are a well-developed, well connected country with all sorts of opportunities to advance your career. There are many job openings for specialists in industries such as medicine, engineering and IT. But there are also opportunities to contribute more generalist skills.

Engineering

Construction and engineering professionals are wanted for positions like construction managers, project managers, site managers, civil engineers, structural engineers, mechanical engineers, surveyors, supervisors, construction foreman, building foreman, safety operators, environmental operators, skilled operators and trades personnel.

IT

The country now has more than 400 tech companies on board from across the country and has expanded its board. The requirements cannot be filled only with New Zealanders, and foreigners are more than welcome to work and live in the amazing country.

General Worker

New Zealanders are not enough to fill the need of general labour which exists, the government and the companies require to bring foreigners to fill the positions in this growing sector.

Agriculture

This is the largest sector of the tradable economy, contributing about two-thirds of exported goods. agricultural exports were valued at over $14.8 billion recently. The New Zealand agricultural sector is unique in being the only developed country to be totally exposed to the international markets since subsidies, tax concessions and price supports were removed in the 1980s.