willand tina_h

just want to say glad your all there safe, and all the very best of luck for o/h's interview.

Tina. x

thedtb

Alas, this job was not to be!

It's frustrating to be told that there's nothing more the wife could have done, that she had all the right answers and all the right experience, but yet was still unsuccessful.

Oh well... time to move on to the next stage of the plan... need to organise a hire car and get mobile today/tomorrow then look to pick up a motorhome shortly afterwards... lots of other job applications submitted and others to get on with too!

Thanks for all the support!

We'll keep you updated on our progress.

j19fmm

Obviously don't know what they're missing.
for the trip x

Numptyhead

Sorry to hear that. Great news that you are there though and doing it.
Wishing you all the luck in the world for getting jobs and finding somewhere lovely to settle

danjones1

Did you tell immigration that you were in the country to attend job interviews?

thedtb

We told them we had applied to live in New Zealand and wanted to come and spend some time here to see what areas we might like to actually live in - which is actually true, but I waited for him to ask if we had any interviews arranged... he didn't ask... so I didn't say.

All he asked, was whether we had tickets for a return flight and then wished us good luck.

Cadibel

Hopefully next time your wife will be successful. It's often about your face fitting - and who can tell what you have to do to make that happen

Exciting you guys being over there - looking forward to hearing more about your story.

BTW, has your wife signed on with any agencies? We just have and they seem very proactive.

willand tina_h

Soz she did not get this one, one will soon come up for her Im sure .
Enjoy your trip, your bound to have an experience of a lifetime!!!

All the best and good luck.

Tina.x

danjones1

I wonder if the immi person would have been so encouraging if you came from China or India!

thedtb

She's been registerd with Oasis for some time now and they've been disappointing to say the very least - we don't really hold out any hope of them being much more than useless.

The wife is however going to be registering with Select Education - for some reason she wanted to wait until were were in NZ before doing so.

Cadibel

We've registered with Education Personnel Ltd (are still in the UK) and they seem pretty good so far - maybe also worth a shot?

Shall deffo stay away from Oasis now!

thedtb

I'll mention Education Personnel Ltd to the wife - thanks!

In terms of Oasis, everything started off ok, but they seem really very limited in their exposure... if you're looking for anything outside of Auckland, our experience is that there's no point speaking to Oasis.

Also, it's been frustrating dealing with them, because despite the wife taking the time to prepare full details of her career and all related experience and send everything across we've repeatedly had to tell them the same things over and over and had a number of positions put forward for her which are entirely unsuitable... and I don't mean stuff that could be eaily mistaken, I mean that simply by looking at the wife's CV (let alone anything else) it was blatantly obvious that she just wasn't suitable for the role (or vice versa).

It's almost like there's a complete breakdown of communication at their office and that they can't be bothered reading the CV's of the people they're trying to place, but instead just throw any old vacancy randomly to any client in the hope that something sticks....

It's a real shame because we spoke to one guy from Oasis (I believe he was one of the owners) at one of the Expos and we came away really inspired and confident in their ability to find her a position (if that is, she couldn't find one herself).

Then again, we were really confident about PSS' ability to handle the packing/storage/shipping of our stuff, only to find on "move" day that the esimator had underestimated enormously the quantity of stuff in our house and be hit with a bill for almost £1700 extra on top of the original quote in order to move from a 20ft container to a 40ft container.

Again this is a real shame, because the people in the office and the guys who came to pack the house up have been fantastic to deal with, but the original estimator had (imho) absolutely no idea what he was doing and basically stuck his finger in the air to come up with a figure... god help us if we hadn't have dumped a load of stuff at car boot sales in the weeks leading up to the move!

We're quickly learning that the original confidence gained in initial conversations is far from set in stone and subject to plenty of "interpretation" :-)

Cadibel

Mmm, yes, nothing is as it seems!

Will let you know how Education Personnel pan out - although we are looking around Auckland they have mentioned their rels with heads in Christchurch etc. Unfortunately for us they aren't going to be able to do that much though as we were a little bit too proactive in gettingn our CVs out to schools we're interested in - which means they can't represent us for them! Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing. Sigh.

Just hoping to get a job sorted out soon as obviously have to resign by Oct 31st at latest. Was your wife working right up until you left?

thedtb

No my wife finished at the end of the term leading to the Summer Holidays - that way she got a full salary for most of the summer holidays, whilst were able to concentrate on planning the move etc etc Without doing this, in her school she would have been commited to working up until Christmas and so on and we wanted to go well before then.

kiwi_child

Good luck mate. Hope it all works out for youse