He said the Job Fairs were going to be one-offs, but could be annual events. They would effectively be recruitment drives for the private sector.
"These companies are saying they need the additional skilled people, some of the skilled labour that we've lost [to Australia] in the past 10 or 20 years, and we're more than happy to help."
The Job Fairs would not be a huge cost and could be funded out of existing baselines, he said.
Reform of the Resource Management Act was also one of the 10 priorities. National was unable to get its desired reform of the Act across the line this term after the Act MP John Banks resigned from Parliament and other governing partners the Maori and United Future Parties refused to support the changes.
At issue was a change to the overriding purpose of the Act which the Maori and United Future along with opposition parties said unduly prioritised economic development over protection of the environment.
National has argued its desired changes to the Act are important for ensuring greater supply of land for building to alleviate housing market pressures.
Other priorities include free trade agreements with South Korea, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the World Trade Organisation Government Procurement Agreement. Mr Joyce hoped that, if re-elected, at least two of those should be completed by the end of the next parliamentary term.
Compac managing director and founder Hamish Kennedy said Compac had received R&D funding from Callaghan Innovation, which had boosted its own R&D programme by about 20 per cent.
Compac, which makes packaging including for fruit, now has about 90 dedicated R&D staff out of 400 in total.
"R&D fuels our growth.".
He supported the Job Fairs and said finding skilled workers was one of the biggest problems for the company.
"Mainly engineering, but right through the company."
