KD17
6th March 2007, 09:17 AM
It's taken me about 3 weeks to find work here and I accepted a job offer yesterday, which was made to me then and there at the interview.
I had sent my cv to one or two agencies before we left the UK, who called me to arrange a time to see them when I got here.
They all told me that I would have to accept less than I'm worth until I proved myself in NZ, which they valued me around the $65k mark; then I could ask for the kind of money I should be earning (whatever that may be ?) All but one agency seemed to want to pigeon hole me, which is difficult to do as I have a mix of talents which includes sales, IT and finance; but we settled on a Business Analyst type position.
In those 3 weeks I went for 4 interviews and 2 second interviews, which I was either too experienced or not experienced enough for. One of the second interviews was for 2 1/2 hours and involed 5 potential work colleagues coming in and grilling me on how/ where / when /why over all my CV and picking holes in just about everything - I was not impressed but remained calm and kept smiling; albeit an "I want to jump over the table and punch you" type grin :p
It's one thing meeting your potential colleagues to find out if you might like them and be able to work with them, but to ask them the same questions and more that you have been asked by your future manager and HR I thought was well out of order, and in my opinion none of their business why I changed jobs 5 years ago :mad: Needless to say I didn't get that job...
The job I've accepted is working at Alcatel-Lucent in central Wellington, and I start tomorrow - no time like the present eh?? Ironically the agency that found me the job in based in Auckland and disagreed with having to prove myself first and got me just over $80k, which is not a bad start to a first job I think :)
I'm looking forward to joining a normal Kiwi life and just need to get Keith out to work now :laugh
Debby & Keith
I had sent my cv to one or two agencies before we left the UK, who called me to arrange a time to see them when I got here.
They all told me that I would have to accept less than I'm worth until I proved myself in NZ, which they valued me around the $65k mark; then I could ask for the kind of money I should be earning (whatever that may be ?) All but one agency seemed to want to pigeon hole me, which is difficult to do as I have a mix of talents which includes sales, IT and finance; but we settled on a Business Analyst type position.
In those 3 weeks I went for 4 interviews and 2 second interviews, which I was either too experienced or not experienced enough for. One of the second interviews was for 2 1/2 hours and involed 5 potential work colleagues coming in and grilling me on how/ where / when /why over all my CV and picking holes in just about everything - I was not impressed but remained calm and kept smiling; albeit an "I want to jump over the table and punch you" type grin :p
It's one thing meeting your potential colleagues to find out if you might like them and be able to work with them, but to ask them the same questions and more that you have been asked by your future manager and HR I thought was well out of order, and in my opinion none of their business why I changed jobs 5 years ago :mad: Needless to say I didn't get that job...
The job I've accepted is working at Alcatel-Lucent in central Wellington, and I start tomorrow - no time like the present eh?? Ironically the agency that found me the job in based in Auckland and disagreed with having to prove myself first and got me just over $80k, which is not a bad start to a first job I think :)
I'm looking forward to joining a normal Kiwi life and just need to get Keith out to work now :laugh
Debby & Keith