CharlotteHayley

I have just arrived in New Zealand a week ago I'm 24 years old from England, and I am looking for new work opportunities. I want to try new things and try new skills or trades but unsure where to look or the best places to go are. I would like to work outdoors with animals or get involved with activities or the construction field. I'm hard working and just want to be given a chance to better myself while here. All advice welcome.

Thank you,

Charlotte

BEVS

I'll move this to the NZ forum.

First and most important

What visa are you on please?

awksie

As this thread seems to have 'died', I will hijack it ...... I have just arrived on a tourist visa, after 11 years working in Spain. I am English and 53 years old....are there are casual labour opportunities for hard working souls who eventually want to prove their worth and get a work visa?

I am flitting between addresses in Central Auckland and Papakura (a bit further South).

Just wanting to know if you can get a job the proper way, but also by 'meeting a bloke down the pub'?

cappuccino

You are not allowed to do any work on a tourist visa and you are too old for a working holiday visa.

awksie

Straight to the point I suppose, thank you.

Nice to arrive in a country without a discriminatory view on age, there was me thinking it was 2016!!

I am joking, of course, I know I am too old aged 53....I have to get out of bed every morning

MrsFychan

what do you do as a job if you had one? You do have time against you as you have to become a resident before you are 54yrs old to enable you to stay long term. or you will be stuck on just having to renew temp visa, if in fact you can up lift one, which does sort of leave you in limbo and means Immigration can always refuse to renew which means you would have to leave.

simonsi

Just a heads up but most on here in NZ will have spent a lot of time and $$$ doing things the official way to get and work here so may not have much sympathy for your "casual" approach. I certainly don't.

Of course if found working illegally your chances of ever doing it the correct way will be pretty much non-existant.

awksie

Simonsi, thanks for a really good reply.

I am actually a 'professional' person and my intentions are to go about things the legal way and I have the finances to invest in this route.

I just enjoy working and genuinely wondered if I could fix myself up with a short term, albeit modest, income stream, whilst going the longer term route for a work visa.

I have been an 'immigrant' in Spain for the past 11-years, but of course, there are no barriers to the workforce right now for British citizens.

I am determined to keep plugging away, doing the right thing, I admire you guys that have struggled to do things this way, I just wish this forum had a slant of the more 'positive' sometimes for the guys who want to be here for all the right reasons.

As I say, thanks for a great reply.

Awksie

awksie

Thought I would provide an update:

visited the Office of Immigation at 280 Queen Street this morning and they were most helpful.

Gave me some forms to complete based on my personal circumstances, will likely need an interview with an Immigration Officer at some point, but I am quietly optimistic, that by going down the legal route, I will be allowed a right to seek work once I have completed the 'Partnership-Based Temporary Entry' application form.

Lots of boxes to tick (figure of speech), but I guess if you are determined enough, you can succeed.

The lady didn't even ask my age

simonsi

Ah so presumably you have a Kiwi partner? That might have been useful to know ;-)

awksie

Yes, sorry, I was not trying to be devious and I fully understand that the advice to "get fixed up with a kiwi partner" should not be encouraged.

We are rekindled after 20 years apart and although I initially arrived here in April of this year, I have spent a couple of months in the UK to sort out some stuff.

One thing I did find 'interesting', is that after arriving here on a British passport, on 28th Aug, my tourist visa now runs until the 28th Feb - I originally applied for an e-visa back in April and wrongly assumed that my stay would expire on 10th October??

I am sure this is common knowledge to you guys, but it was a welcome surprise to me ✌� ����

MrsFychan

Maybe you should of offered that information

awksie

Try taking a Happy Pill.......no, take two !!

BEVS

I don't get this . Doesn't sound very nice.

This is what you wrote

It is a job offer first and then take up employment. Not the other way round.
There is an assortment of criteria that an employer must meet before offering someone from overseas paid employment.

However, you then went on to write this.

-- which means exactly that. A right to work and remain in NZ whilst a partner based application is processed.

Yes. Some visitor visas are for 6 months and some for 3. That depends on where one is currently resident.

So. You are with your NZ partner. You will be given time to prove that the relationship is long lasting and stable.