'New Zealand wants you': the problem with tech at the edge of the world

Re:'New Zealand wants you': the problem with tech at the edg... by madaxe_again on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @01:59AM (#17406066)

So, despite being an entrepreneur, and having founded several successful and sustainable businesses, I’m one of your “unskilled migrants”. Sure, I’ve been coding since I could walk, I have current and expert systems and web technology knowledge - but I have a bachelors. In physics. Not useful at all, and puts me on the same rung as a golf course management graduate - actually, below, as they have a shortage skill.

One of the hurdles I am repeatedly failing at with trying to emigrate is that I do not have a compsci degree.

It seems that having a bit of paper is much more important than having a track record.

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Re:'New Zealand wants you': the problem with tech at the edg... by yarg on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:19AM (#17406799)

So in fact you're in no way unskilled, and if you're being measured as such there's something fundamentally broken in the way that skills are being measured and something should be done about it.

Nothing ever will be done, and it's a loss for the country.

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