The Special Interest Group for Immigrant Engineers (SIGIE) evolved from an Engineering New Zealand (formerly IPENZ) initiative to provide training courses for immigrant engineers in New Zealand. The aim of the group is to facilitate settlement of immigrant engineers into meaningful professional employment in New Zealand. Objectives include continued training, professional development, employment and career counselling and social and work opportunity networking. What we offer: SIGIE will do its best to assist immigrant engineers in their search for professional employment. We are trying to encourage New Zealand employers to recognise your skills and we do understand the difficulty you have in getting the “local experience” employers often request. We have a process of one-to-one interviews, examining CVs and making recommendations for various things you might do to improve your prospects for finding a professional engineering job. However SIGIE cannot find you a job. You are the one who has to convince an employer that you have the skills they are seeking, and that you can perform the work they expect.