The Migrant Expo is going to hold its annual event which focuses on providing jobs to Asians in New Zealand has changed its focus to self employment and money management this year. This event provides a great opportunity for foreigners to find a suitable job for themselves in New Zealand. But this focus has been shifted to self help employment because of high level of unemployment amongst local people in New Zealand.

New Zealand has always managed to recruit many skilled migrants but they are the last priority for Kiwi employers to employee them, as the preference is given to local New Zealander only. The changing scenario of economic condition and rising unemployment rate in country makes it very difficult for foreigners to find jobs for themselves. Through recent survey, it has been reveled that nearly 510,000 people are unemployed in Auckland and the rate of unemployment has reached from 5.1 percent last year to 7.3 percent this year. And figures are worse in case of Asians, as the unemployment rate is higher than 9.8 percent making more than 22,000 Asians jobless.

Mainly, it has been manufacturing, retail and construction and financial and insurance service industry industries whose graph of unemployment has shown maximum decline in jobs. Employed citizens always have an upper hand for settling in New Zealand in comparison to unemployed and this is the reason that so many Asians look for job in New Zealand.

The Migrant Expo is going to hold its event this year which is an only annual event in which students, refugees and migrants can gather information about various issues related to settlement in New Zealand. Visitors can be a part of seminars, career planning, money management and worker’s rights. But this time they are really wondering that what fruitful results this event will going to yield as the focus is more on self employment due to lack of job opportunities in New Zealand.