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Hello all, my husband and I are planning to move to NZ in the very near future. We have always thought about it so at christmas we decided to finally act and have a holiday there. I have to say I'm envious of you all, what a beautiful country! After travelling around for a month we would like to settle in the South Island. My question is, what is the best way to find a job before submitting an EOI? My husband is an electrical engineer, as well as having experience in mechanical engineering etc. Would anyone recommend a recruitment agency? I seems a catch 22 to me, no job offer then less chance of getting residency. No residency makes is difficult to get a job. Thanks in advance for your help. This has been a really useful website!

[veronica]

I think the general feeling seems to be that the agencies are a rip off, its worth doing a forum search on it. It also seems a bit of a catch 22 with employers needing the workers but not being prepared to commit until the employees are here. it generally seems to be the feeling that the best thing to do if you can is to come out, then get a job with a work visa then go for residency, but each case is different and you have to suit yourselves.

[Trigirl]

I think the general feeling seems to be that the agencies are a rip off, its worth doing a forum search on it.
I think emigration agencies are generally a rip off - but recruitment agencies? the ones we've dealit with (in IT) seem to have been mostly ok. can't help with any specific engineering ones though.

[veronica]

Ok the type of agencies I was referring to were the ones that promise to get you a job here while you are still overseas. Not the sort of specialised employment agencies that are there for new zealanders and anyone else to use.

[Sue]

Hey
my husband is a chemical engineer and used a recruitment agency called Crown Recruitment(www.crown.co.nz) they were super.
Another good one is Scientific and Technical Recruitment. Also have a look on www.seek.co.nz - youre husband is on the skills shortage list I think, have you had a look at that?
Sue

[Caroline and Dave]

Hi,
This may help http://www.indexnz.com/Top?Business-and-Economy/Employment

Dave and Caroline

[Natalieb]

Hiya,

We submitted our EOI without a job offer. Unfortunately the qualifications we have were not the level they required, so were de-selected. When we were de-selected we received a letter saying sorry but the case officer assigned to us would hold our application for two weeks incase we wanted to appeal. Within that time we got a job offer :raebanana. We contacted the case officer who said ok, send in your signed contract of employment, which we did, and resulted in us getting our ITA.

Dont forget if you submit thet EOI you are paying for a reason - a Case Officer is assigned to you to help you and make sure everything runs smoothly, mines pretty good.

Im assuming your job is on the skills shortage list, if not Im unsure if the info im am giving you is correct.

Good luck :nice1

PM me if you need help getting a job electronically, ive worked in recruitment! and may have some advice -dont use an agency that charge - we have had two job offers, one which we gained direct, the other through a recruitment agency that dont charge.

Natalie

[ian&jools]

Hi there,

This rings bells - had the same happen to us: submitted EOI; were selected but then were docked points and de-selected; but managed to get a job offer to get us back on track. However now having read the detailed rules in the ITA (and talking to our assigned officer) my job offer is not going to get us through our application (my offer is not for a long enough term) so I need another job offer (and quick!). Any advice !?

Apologies for poor etiquette: This is our first post : Hello all! We are hoping to head out to NZ this year (myself, my wife Jools and 20 month old son). Currently looking to head over to NZ in a couple of weeks to try to secure a post locally unless I can manage do it from the UK...

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Thanks everyone for all your help and advice. Some ideas there we hadn't considered. Maybe biting the bullet and coming out there, then looking for a job is worth considering. Although with two young children I don't take as many risks as I used to! Thanks again .