Value overseas experience
Migrants bring skills and experience from overseas that can add value to your workplace. Different ideas and approaches to problem solving can bring a fresh and innovative perspective to your team.
Interviewing candidates and making a job offer
It is important to accommodate differences in culture and background when interviewing migrant candidates. By making a few changes to how you interview migrants, you are more likely to get the answers you need to make well informed and more accurate decisions about their skills and experience.
Tips for finding and hiring workers overseas
- Getting ready to hire overseas workers
- Promoting your job vacancies overseas
- Interviewing candidates and making a job offer
- Value overseas experience
- Communicating across cultures
- Behavioural interviews
- How to help migrant candidates succeed
- Making a job offer to a migrant
- Hiring overseas workers from the Philippines
Communicating across cultures
How you communicate with a migrant audience can make a big difference to whether you find the right person for the job. Job advertisements and successful interviews rely on good, clear communication. Here are some tips to help you communicate clearly with migrant candidates.
Behavioural interviews
Migrant candidates may be unfamiliar with common questioning techniques used in New Zealand. While everyone needs to prepare well for a job interview, there are still things you can do to help get the best from migrant job candidates.
How to help migrant candidates succeed
To get the best out of your migrant job candidates in interviews, create a positive environment, show empathy, use effective questions and help them with their responses.
Making a job offer to a migrant
Once you find the right person for the role, you can make them a job offer. Your new employee will need this offer to support them with their immigration application.