Greetings from the West Country!
Feb 1st 2017, 3:50 pm
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Greetings from the West Country!
Hi all....hope you are all well and your lives are going smoother than a freshly buttered bannister
My wife and I are making our first steps into making the move to New Zealand with our 9 year old son. The 'slight' issue being visas due to not having any employment offers as yet. I'm 46, my wife (40) is a hairdresser and I'm a manager of an estate agency (I can hear you groan from here but we're not all bad, honest!) so all advice/tips and estate agent jokes welcome! 😅Thanks.
Mr C.
My wife and I are making our first steps into making the move to New Zealand with our 9 year old son. The 'slight' issue being visas due to not having any employment offers as yet. I'm 46, my wife (40) is a hairdresser and I'm a manager of an estate agency (I can hear you groan from here but we're not all bad, honest!) so all advice/tips and estate agent jokes welcome! 😅Thanks.
Mr C.
Feb 1st 2017, 6:30 pm
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Re: Greetings from the West Country!
Welcome,
both occupations are on the skills list so just a job offer for one of you should get the ball rolling. to be honest though there seems to be a glut of both agents and hairdressers it may take quite a while.
From my understanding, when doing my salesperson course for house selling, even if you have worked in the house selling profession outside of NZ you will need to start at the bottom and work your way up, which can take a number of years. There was 6 people on the same course with me at the same agency and only two are still working in the industry one was a English Estate Agent Manager like yourself, he now has a cleaning business . One moved to another location and benefited from the fact that the salespeople there were not motivated, the other one a family member who also worked there had been sleeping with the owner so got preferential treatment. Its all who you know over here.
I agree there are nice agents out there but its really not a nice environment if don't have a selfish streak here.
both occupations are on the skills list so just a job offer for one of you should get the ball rolling. to be honest though there seems to be a glut of both agents and hairdressers it may take quite a while.
From my understanding, when doing my salesperson course for house selling, even if you have worked in the house selling profession outside of NZ you will need to start at the bottom and work your way up, which can take a number of years. There was 6 people on the same course with me at the same agency and only two are still working in the industry one was a English Estate Agent Manager like yourself, he now has a cleaning business . One moved to another location and benefited from the fact that the salespeople there were not motivated, the other one a family member who also worked there had been sleeping with the owner so got preferential treatment. Its all who you know over here.
I agree there are nice agents out there but its really not a nice environment if don't have a selfish streak here.
Feb 1st 2017, 6:56 pm
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Re: Greetings from the West Country!
Welcome,
both occupations are on the skills list so just a job offer for one of you should get the ball rolling. to be honest though there seems to be a glut of both agents and hairdressers it may take quite a while.
From my understanding, when doing my salesperson course for house selling, even if you have worked in the house selling profession outside of NZ you will need to start at the bottom and work your way up, which can take a number of years. There was 6 people on the same course with me at the same agency and only two are still working in the industry one was a English Estate Agent Manager like yourself, he now has a cleaning business . One moved to another location and benefited from the fact that the salespeople there were not motivated, the other one a family member who also worked there had been sleeping with the owner so got preferential treatment. Its all who you know over here.
I agree there are nice agents out there but its really not a nice environment if don't have a selfish streak here.
both occupations are on the skills list so just a job offer for one of you should get the ball rolling. to be honest though there seems to be a glut of both agents and hairdressers it may take quite a while.
From my understanding, when doing my salesperson course for house selling, even if you have worked in the house selling profession outside of NZ you will need to start at the bottom and work your way up, which can take a number of years. There was 6 people on the same course with me at the same agency and only two are still working in the industry one was a English Estate Agent Manager like yourself, he now has a cleaning business . One moved to another location and benefited from the fact that the salespeople there were not motivated, the other one a family member who also worked there had been sleeping with the owner so got preferential treatment. Its all who you know over here.
I agree there are nice agents out there but its really not a nice environment if don't have a selfish streak here.
Feb 2nd 2017, 12:33 pm
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Re: Greetings from the West Country!
Hi all....hope you are all well and your lives are going smoother than a freshly buttered bannister
My wife and I are making our first steps into making the move to New Zealand with our 9 year old son. The 'slight' issue being visas due to not having any employment offers as yet. I'm 46, my wife (40) is a hairdresser and I'm a manager of an estate agency (I can hear you groan from here but we're not all bad, honest!) so all advice/tips and estate agent jokes welcome! 😅Thanks.
Mr C.
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My wife and I are making our first steps into making the move to New Zealand with our 9 year old son. The 'slight' issue being visas due to not having any employment offers as yet. I'm 46, my wife (40) is a hairdresser and I'm a manager of an estate agency (I can hear you groan from here but we're not all bad, honest!) so all advice/tips and estate agent jokes welcome! 😅Thanks.
Mr C.
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Feb 2nd 2017, 1:20 pm
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Re: Greetings from the West Country!
We've heard back from the Emmigration Group today and they've advised us that we don't meet the pass mark for NZ but there may be an option to assess my wife for Australia instead. Try telling that to my snake hating arachnaphobic wife 😅
Feb 2nd 2017, 1:53 pm
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Re: Greetings from the West Country!
Ah that's a shame! We only saw one HUGE spider (and no snakes) in our 3 weeks in Oz and that was in the outback so I'm sure you'll be fine in the towns!! 😆 We're the opposite, my qualification is no longer recognised in Oz. Good luck with persuading the wife, oh to escape summer on the m5!
