[MarkWW]

We've just come back from the London expo and I'm afraid this statement:

"We bring many of New Zealand’s top employers and recruitment consultants to you"

is simply not true. There were very few employers there and only two recruitment consultants. The employers there were mainly from the construction industry (3ish), plus one for teachers and one for some healthcare profession (sorry didn't take much notice!). I'm in IT and there was nobody there for me so printing all those CVs this morning as recommended on the expo website was a waste of trees.

The two recruitment agencies had big queues but seemed just to be getting people to register with them which presumably you could do online instead. They were nz.hudson.com and advanced personnel.

Having said all that we did get some useful info about shipping our stuff to NZ (there were three companies there) and learned a few extra things from the NZ Immigration seminar.

I have to say I felt a little cheated as the claims made on the expo site about picking up jobs there are obviously totally misleading - expecially as they specifically said there would be employers looking for IT people there (and many other professions who were not represented).

The expo is not free so please bear the above in mind if you're thinking of going to London tomorrow or Leeds next weekend.