Singel
16th August 2005, 03:02 PM
We arrived in Auckland on tourist visa and rented a place in Mt. Wellington.
The initial 2 weeks of arrival, Tony applied for IT jobs through recruitment agencies and he received lukewarm responses. We have no jobs and plenty of free time :D so we decided to take a walk to the industrial estate. On the way, Tony spotted a company's billboard that advertised it's software services. Taken note of the information, we rushed home and sent the resumes to that company by post. I gonna say that the postal service here is superb :nice1 The next day, the managing director contacted Tony for interviews and subsequently the job offer.
As for me, I waited till our container arrived before I started looking............
After couple weeks of futile job searching (rejected reply: no NZ experience). I circumvent the problem by going for temp job.
To register as a temp with a recruitment agency, I went through the following tests at one go, spending about 3 hours :
1) English language
2) Typing speed and accuracy
3) MS Word and Excel
4) Customer service - some sort of aptitude test
I received the results of all the tests on the spot. The agency contacted my ex-bosses for reference checks and one week later, I got a contract for temping.
While I was doing my 1st 2-week temp assignment, I spotted a company advertised in the paper, I applied for it and got the job offer. By the way, my present employer had done a reference check with the company that I have been temping for only 2 weeks - what a way to gain NZ experience !!!
GOOD LUCK & SUCCESS to your job searching :cheers
The initial 2 weeks of arrival, Tony applied for IT jobs through recruitment agencies and he received lukewarm responses. We have no jobs and plenty of free time :D so we decided to take a walk to the industrial estate. On the way, Tony spotted a company's billboard that advertised it's software services. Taken note of the information, we rushed home and sent the resumes to that company by post. I gonna say that the postal service here is superb :nice1 The next day, the managing director contacted Tony for interviews and subsequently the job offer.
As for me, I waited till our container arrived before I started looking............
After couple weeks of futile job searching (rejected reply: no NZ experience). I circumvent the problem by going for temp job.
To register as a temp with a recruitment agency, I went through the following tests at one go, spending about 3 hours :
1) English language
2) Typing speed and accuracy
3) MS Word and Excel
4) Customer service - some sort of aptitude test
I received the results of all the tests on the spot. The agency contacted my ex-bosses for reference checks and one week later, I got a contract for temping.
While I was doing my 1st 2-week temp assignment, I spotted a company advertised in the paper, I applied for it and got the job offer. By the way, my present employer had done a reference check with the company that I have been temping for only 2 weeks - what a way to gain NZ experience !!!
GOOD LUCK & SUCCESS to your job searching :cheers