Industry News

Planit announces Partnership with Archer Growth

Planit Software Testing Group (“Planit”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a partnership with leading mid-market Private Equity firm Archer Growth to provide growth capital to expand the business into new geographies and service areas. About Planit Software Testing Established i

March 16, 2015

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Wellington, NZ – a true IT Hotspot

Wellington, New Zealand is trending as the World’s Coolest Little Capital, and its success is not simply due to a brilliant PR campaign. Wellington is one of the best places in the world to live, and if you’re working in the IT sector in particular, it might be time you considered a move to this

March 16, 2015

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Why New Zealand is awesome and a great place to find your dream IT job

New Zealand really is awesome. We’re the first country in the world to see the sun, we don’t have any snakes and we live amongst the filming landscape for the Lord of Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit. While these are all great reasons to live here, the even better news for tech professionals is New

March 4, 2015

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Weekend hackathon gives local charities much needed IT help

More than 40 volunteers spent the sunny Wellington weekend holed up in a central city office working on IT projects for four lucky charities. The so-called “hackathon”, is the third run by Charity-IT. Under the leadership of two of the Charity IT founders, Mel Bourke and Fairfax Westpac Woman o

March 2, 2015

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Education in NZ: Teachers upload confidence

The average Kiwi teacher is a woman in her early fifties. She's facing a generation of kids she wasn't trained to teach who have grown up with Wi-Fi, the cloud and hand-held technology. But a postgraduate digital course has more than 1000 teachers - many who completed their training before the inte

February 24, 2015

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Big-money incentives for Kiwi software engineers

A shortage of software engineers in New Zealand has led to new recruits being offered sign-on bonuses of up to $15,000. Big money incentives are common overseas, with global tech companies offering up to $250,000, far more than in New Zealand where $10-$15,000 is more common. "I think whenever the

February 17, 2015

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NZTech News

NZTech Addressing the Skills Gap

Apparently the tech sector has a major issue. Not enough skilled people available and it is only going to get worse. Everyone is talking about it so it must be true, right? When I visit members of NZTech the skills gap conversation invariably comes up as an issue regardless of the scale of the comp

February 16, 2015

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EROAD boosts staff numbers with signing bonus

Joining electronic road user charges and transport services company EROAD (NZX:ERD) has become even more attractive, with a $10,000 signing bonus for software engineers. The company added 50 staff during 2014, most of those in research and development roles at its Auckland headquarters, as well as

February 16, 2015

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Events

New speakers announced for ‘Project 15’ - this year’s most innovative conference

Project 15’– a conference focused on ‘taking New Zealand Innovation Global’ has announced four new world-leading speakers to the already impressive line-up of local and international experts, which include: - · Steve Sammartino (Australia), start up wizard; · Melissa Clark-Reynolds (Ne

February 13, 2015