PaulLisaMoores

To find employment in NZ/OZ whilst still over here in blighty? If anyone has any experience in this(I am in I.T and the good lady wife in retail management) any tales/advice will be appreciated.

Cheers

Paul & Lisa.

wmoore

Spooky. I'm in IT and the wife is in Retail (Supervisor). Anyhoo, I think you'll struggle to be honest. Most employers won't even look at your CV from this side of the world.

mickj

Also in IT ! You need to be where you are thinking of emigrating to, to actually sell yourself in the IT market. They want to hear it from you, what you can programme, platforms, languages and all that.

It ain't like nursing.

madsad

Hi Paul & Lisa, i am a pump enginneer still in UK but hoping to get to Aus in 6-7 months, what i done was went to the Brisbane yellow pages found all the pump engineers then searched for them on the net.

I then contacted them by e mail, and of the 10 i sent i got 8 replys that said contact them asa soon as i arrived!!

One of them has even gone as far as doing character refernec checks on me with their sister company in the UK, So while it is hard to actually secure a job, it is worthwhile doing some legwork before you go!! at least you feel as if you are doing something constructive!!

graceyg

My husband is a printer and he registered with seek a job agency, we get e-mails with quite a few job vacancies per day. He has been e-mailing them asking for advice etc.

Just from doing ths a company have agreed to sponsor us and takee us over there in the next 3-4 months! So it's worth just e-mailing everyone and remember if you on't ask you don't get!

Good Luck

JackTheLad

Will let you know... its what we are about to start doing. We don't necessarily expect (or want) to walk straight into jobs when we get there, but just to test the market and get our CVs into a few agencies before we go, we'll be applying for a few jobs in the next 4 or 5 weeks.

Idealy, I would like to have 1 or 2 interviews lined up before we go, and start work 4 to 6 weeks after we get there. Of course it wouldn't kill me if it took me 6 months to find a job, provided the wife gets a job quickly!

I've always fancied the house husband role anyway

JTL

MarkMyWords

I agree with all of the above; companies won't touch you with a bargepole until you're actually in the country with the visa in your hand, but it is definitely worth doing your homework and sending out lots of CVs to recruitment agents in advance, then following up and telling them when you're going to be there, as then they can try to line up interviews for not long after you've arrived.

Bear in mind that Aussie CVs are a very different beast from UK ones. They need to be a lot more trumpet-blowing. Modesty and British reticence about your achievements won't get you very far!

Good luck!

mlbonner

Michael Page have recently opened their Australian branches and may be worth a go http://www.michaelpage.com.au

The good thing about this company is that they specialise in only about 6 areas (inc technology) so they might be worth a try. If you go to http://www.michaelpage.co.uk/control...ectionid=10128 and right down the bottom of the page there is a link to send your CV in, as a UK resident interested in working in Australia.

www.seek.com.au is also good, as there is a facility on here to upload your CV and then leave it open for employers to view (I got a job offer this way when I was out there last year). You can also see how many people have viewed your details

Teresa

Have to disagree on above, emailed for G's 1st job last week on his current English CV and he has an interview when we arrive.........they were prepared to wait as we told them July too!!! bit too quick for his liking as we wanted a long holiday so get emailing before you go as you never know and few others we know have got jobs this way too

MarkMyWords

Cor they must really like you! Good luck!

rudo1ph

It is possible but from what I understand, most people wait until they get here. My hubby was offered a job before we arrived - he had telephone intereviews. Guess we got lucky. He is in IT.

JackTheLad

Ahhhh :scared: Don't tell me that!

I don't want to walk straight into a job. Its been a few years since I've bummed around for months looking for work. I was looking forward to spending days by the pool filling in application forms .

Ok, time to dumb down the CV

Cheers,
JTL

ANA123

My husbands a printer and he got in touch with several companies from the uk and lined up interviews for our first couple of weeks, turned out that he was offered 3 jobs in the first week. They do seem to be very short of printers here though, the terms are more favourable than uk which is not the case in most jobs.
As a nurse I didnt anticipate any problems, I guess we're lucky both working in in demand jobs.

gedge

Best advice I can give is put out your feelers before you go.
It does seem unlikely you'll get a job before you arrive, not like in the good old days.
I had an Oz company phone me in the UK and interview me for a job back in late 90s. This time round they wouldn't even acknowledge receipt of my resume!
I'm in IT btw.

If you can then 'network'.