Saturday, May 19, 2012
 

 
Programmes

Using international best practice, OMEGA's programmes have been designed to fully engage the contributions of skilled immigrants, and help bring an end to workplace skill shortages.

The Mentoring Programme facilitates occupation-specific mentoring, matching skilled immigrants with business professionals who share the same skills and industry knowledge. Mentors provide advice, support, information and contacts, with the aim of assisting mentees to obtain employment relevant to their qualifications and experience. It is also an opportunity for mentors to develop their one-on-one leadership capabilities and fine-tune their coaching skills.

TAP-In (Talent Access Programme for Industry) is designed to assist skilled immigrants with the dilemma of having "No New Zealand experience, no job – no job, no New Zealand experience".  It provides workplace experience for skilled immigrants in their field of expertise, through three to six month paid internships, or volunteer terms of several weeks, and thereby offers Auckland organisations a cost effective way of quickly accessing a pool of mature, experienced talent.

The Best Practice Forum facilitated by OMEGA works with organisations to improve workplace practice with regard to the recruitment, integration and retention of skilled immigrants.

The Inter-government Group is a think tank designed to be informed of, and influence, the government's planning and policy work with regard to the issue of skilled immigrants in New Zealand.
OMEGA's activities focus on four OBJECTIVES:

 

- To support the labour market integration of internationally trained immigrants.

- To partner with businesses to improve workplaces and work place practice to value and work with skilled immigrants.

- To generate public awareness of the benefits of international talent for New Zealand's growth.

- To influence government policies and programmes.
 

OMEGA is a participant of Cities of Migration, an international project to showcase good practice in the integration of urban immigrants, and to promote innovative ideas that create equity, social cohesion and urban prosperity.

OMEGA's programmes are underpinned by Research and Communications.  OMEGA aims to be aware of the facts regarding the issue of skilled migrancy both in New Zealand and internationally, and to generate thought leadership on the issue.  It further generates public awareness of skilled immigrants and the challenges they face by compiling and circulating case stories and other pertinent information.

 
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