Kiwi Careers

As market based economics becomes more widely adopted and the Information Technology (IT) revolution spreads to bind the world's economies closer together, the importance of English, the world's language of business, science, technology and entertainment, and the associated skill sets, grows. This is particularly true for restructuring economies where the need for the new skill sets usually booms under the influence of the need to confirm to new business standards and conditions, such as deregulation, and the incredible speed of technological innovation , resulting in significant lags in the response of the labour market and the educational and training infrastructure. The result is too often in the form of early retirements of those found to be redundant and a younger generation ill suited for the new economy, resulting in growing social and emotional costs.

Kiwi College's response to this is to offer very cost and time effective new economy skill acquisition packages which are both time and cost effective and highly suited to the new social and economic environment of the 21st century. Common themes are the need for English language skills to be able to function in the global economy typified by rapid technology and demographic driven change. Dot coms may rise and fall spectacularly, but the technology behind them is here to stay and the medium it uses internationally is English. The rapidly changing mix of the economy attendant to the shift from manufacturing to services creates new job opportunities and new skill set requirements as does the rapid aging of populations in advanced countries, including those in north east Asia. Change offers advantages and opportunities as well as imposing costs, and our Kiwi Careers programs are chosen to help people take advantage of these opportunities and change direction in life.

- English and IT, financial and other business skills. The demand for people with both English language and IT skills is far outstripping supply, and wages and salaries for people with such skills are rising and show no sign of levelling off;
- Elderly care. The aging population is creating very large new markets in retirement, health care and recreation which are just emerging. East Asian institutional health care systems for the elderly are generally far behind those of the west, a situation exacerbated as the younger generation, especially women, the traditional care givers, increasingly elect to pursue careers and delay or choose not to get married and become more mobile, leaving a big hole in the traditional family based elderly care system. Increasingly the state, either directly or through payment to commercial care givers, is having to step in, but is lacking in experience. Those with overseas training and experience will find good opportunities in this industry.
- Hobbies and recreation. The gardening and travel booms in Japan are testament to the huge potential of the recreation and health markets as a tsunami of still healthy and active baby boomers hits retirement. These people will need guides and instructors on how to enjoy their free time. Kiwi College schools are a case in point, as most of our adult students are learning English to enjoy their retirement, especially with foreign travel or living overseas being so cheap and easy to access - if you can speak English..

With the above in mind, Kiwi Careers offers a wide variety of causes on our Courses for the New Millennium page. They are available directly to individuals or to companies as part of separation packages to those of their employees taking early retirement.