[Singel]

This is a letter to the editor, published in today's newspaper. I thought it is a very interesting one with some fruit for thoughts.....................

NZ Herald reader, Steven Kempton shared his view :
I own a recruitment firm and anecdotal evidence points to only about 15 per cent of companies using recruiters to fill positions.
Job hunters need to focus on their own search - not on recruitment consultants.
Recruiters don't choose who gets the job. While they may decide who gets put forward, it is the employer who decides who to hire. If the recruiter won't send you through, you can approach companies directly and save the company a fee.

Even though nine out of 10 recruiters won't tell you who their clients is, if you can't work out what kinds of companies will hire you and approach them yourself then I doubt a company would pay a fee to hire you.

When you return from overseas or emigrate you have to be realistic that your market experience may be different and that some companies will not be interested. It is your responsibility to find someone who is interested.

I point to the example of a friend of mine who moved here from Japan. Speaking almost no English but being an excellent software developer, he delivered his CV by hand to 150 companies in a month around Auckland.
The company who eventually hired him received his CV five times before hire him. Relentless is the only word to use to describe what he did. But he had a job within six weeks of arriving.
Someone needed his skills and he made sure he got in front of them, even if he had to take 149 no's.

I do not doubt there are people who discriminate in this marketplace whether it be by race, gender or age. As a job hunter you have to be exactly that - a hunter, not someone waiting for someone else to act for you.

BEST OF LUCK & SUCCESS TO ALL JOB HUNTERS :nice1

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[xanctus]

a very good post indeed...thx for sharing this article with us.
Yeah, good luck to all of us.

[zensamurai]

That´s really a good article, with all information needed. Although there is always one question left:
Which companies are the right ones to hunt ?

150 in one city is no big deal to send a cv (either by post or by hand), but what can you do if you have to choose from 3000 ?
For example I am no specialist in software development, but a generalist in engineering and sales.

cheers

zensamurai

[Singel]

Hello zensamural

Try writing to these companies : http://www.emigratenz.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2564

Just a thought............if you can't get a job in sales, are you prepared to do engineering job?

:cheers

[Singel]

To put it in perspective - you have to "market" or "sell" yourself to the prospective employers. Tell them why they have to hire you. Therefore, in your CV you have to tell (convince) them specifically how you could contribute* to their organisations or why their organisations will benefit from your contributions*.
* in terms of skills, knowledge, working experience, work attitude or personality

Of course, it has to combine with your perserverance and persistence during the job hunting campaign (see it as a personal achievement if you succeed).

SUCCESS TO EVERYONE HERE :nice1

:cheers