NatalieM
8th May 2008, 04:43 AM
Hi there, I'm a registered midwife in Ontario (Canada) and my husband is a teacher. We've been playing around with the idea of moving to NZ for a while now (or other country) and have decided to make it happen. While I've been happily employed for the last 6 years, job prospects for teachers aren't great right now in our area and my husband is ready to move on. For myself, I'm at a point in my career where I feel I need to "refresh" myself so to speak. Things get "stale" when you've been working at the same place for a while and I think it's always good to leave and come back refreshed. So a sabbatical is in order, and hopefully my husband will come back more employable! We both love to travel and have lived abroad before, albeit in our early and single 20's, so we're expecting and welcoming change wherever we go. We are itching for change in our lives right now and these seems the perfect time and opportunity. We don't have kids so that simplifies things.
As far as I can tell, the place to start for both of us is to first become registered in NZ in our respective fields. Then come the job offers, then the visa etc, right? I've found recruitment agencies for both midwives (Geneva Health) and teachers, they are free for us, has anyone found them worthwhile?
In the space of just a day I've already gotten several emails back from hospitals looking for midwives, and some of the working conditions seem really nice. I love my work here, but I look forward to working in a different model of care. It looks like midwives are needed all over NZ. Is the situation similar for teachers? I know Auckland really needs teachers the most, but we're not city folk (we're from Northern Ontario, not Toronto) and prefer a quieter, greener pace. Does anyone have any insight on the teacher employment situation in NZ? One reply I got back for a midwife posting is for Gisborne, which looks really lovely, but do they need teachers? What is Auckland really like, compared to other cities? I think we could handle living in a place similar to the outskirts of Toronto, but definitely not in the core.
Any insights will be appreciated,
thanks!
Natalie
As far as I can tell, the place to start for both of us is to first become registered in NZ in our respective fields. Then come the job offers, then the visa etc, right? I've found recruitment agencies for both midwives (Geneva Health) and teachers, they are free for us, has anyone found them worthwhile?
In the space of just a day I've already gotten several emails back from hospitals looking for midwives, and some of the working conditions seem really nice. I love my work here, but I look forward to working in a different model of care. It looks like midwives are needed all over NZ. Is the situation similar for teachers? I know Auckland really needs teachers the most, but we're not city folk (we're from Northern Ontario, not Toronto) and prefer a quieter, greener pace. Does anyone have any insight on the teacher employment situation in NZ? One reply I got back for a midwife posting is for Gisborne, which looks really lovely, but do they need teachers? What is Auckland really like, compared to other cities? I think we could handle living in a place similar to the outskirts of Toronto, but definitely not in the core.
Any insights will be appreciated,
thanks!
Natalie