Ahhh, one of the most important pieces of the puzzle to emigrating, made a bit more difficult because of the visa criteria of New Zealand. As I mentioned in another post, no job no visa, but no visa and you are going to battle to find a job. A real catch 22. Well the only way then is to find an employer that is willing to employ you, offer you a good salary and be willing to wait for your Visa to be approved. Perfectly easy 🤣
So where does one start?🤔 You need to get yourself assessed by an immigration agent, know if you qualify and if you have a pathway to residency. Get yourself document ready, in other words, get all documents sorted that, when you get that illusive job offer, you can apply for a work visa immediately. Then get ready for late night and early morning phone calls, discussions with recruiters and job interviews. It is a long process until you actually get the interview. Here is what I did, it eventually worked but I will also mention where I went wrong and what was a total waste of time and money.
Everybody was saying you need to change your CV to a New Zealand format.📝 Get a professional to do it, get your LinkedIn profile sorted to attract the right people, build your connections. This costs quite a bit when you use a professional for that. Does it help? I say NO, a total waste of money. Maybe it is just the case with my process but my recruiter totally re-wrote my entire CV anyway and it was better than the one I paid for.
But I had my CV done and my LinkedIn updated. I then job searched and searched and reached out to recruiters on LinkedIn. I applied directly for probably around 80 jobs with no success at all, not even an interview from anybody I applied to directly. Finally one recruiter reached out to me with an interview, and then a second interview. I also reached out to another recruiter that I had heard a lot of positive feedback of and almost begged her to help me.
This is where things started getting exciting and more positive. She called and chatted away to find out who I am, what I want and to get to know me personally. She then targeted employers that she thought I would fit in with personality wise. I had four interviews lined up through her plus the other two. Stress levels started to peak, I made notes about the employer's and more notes for answers to the usual questions so that I did not stumble on my words. These were stuck all around my PC screen as the interviews were all via Skype and ZOOM.
(Okay maybe not that bad)
The recruiter mentored me, told me what I need to say and what not, how to answer the questions, how to dress and all I needed to do to have a positive interview.
Some of these interviews were late night interviews, others very early in the morning. One has to do what needs to be done to look great, feel awake and impress the socks off your new employer haha.... I prepared myself before the time, put my clothes out beforehand, had a cup of coffee so that the caffeine could do its thing, checked my internet connection 30 mins before the interview, talked to myself to get my voice warm and ready and then waited. Remember to check the lighting on your side, how you look on the monitor, shades on your face, etc. I had to put a lamp on the one side so that I had enough light on my face. And check your background, you don't want your laundry or something like that in the video🤣
The normal Skype ringing tone starts and your heart beats faster, you take one deep breath, put on that gorgeous smile and click the button....ACTION 🎬
To be continued with "The Interview"
Have a read here as well, great post
How to Get that Dream Accounting Job
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-get-dream-accounting-job-blake-mather
