Looking for info a jobs and way off life in New Zealand

[codge]

Hi

Hoping someone can help me, looking for info on life in New Zealand.

As a boy my family immigrated to South Africa when I was 10 years old but we returned to Scotland 5 years later. That was the best time off my childhood, the family life style and was able to try nearly every sport under the sun, rugby, cricket, football, swimming etc. I have been told that New Zealand is very similar to this and would love to give my wife and kids a chance to experiance that way of life.

This would all depend on me getting a Job of course, I started my working career by serving an apprenticeship in a Scottish ship yard and I am a time served Plater/Shipwright I have and HNC in welding & Fabrication and can work from plan drawing use dummpy level, theodolite etc.

I then started working for one of the UK biggest mobile phone networks, working on their technical helpdesk supporting the likes of usb mobile broadband supporting user on windows xp, vista and apple mac version 10.4 and 10.5, also blackberrys, pop3 &imap 4 email and much more.

I am now working for company who repair the mobile phones as a line manager I have about 30 techs working under me who repair phone for all the major mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Blackberry and Samsung.

The info I'm looking for is would any of my skill be relevant to New Zealand job front and If so what would be the best career path for me the Fabrication side or the technical.

Thanks

[kaz101]

Have you checked out the 'Thinking of moving to NZ' post at the top of the forum? That has links to the visa sites that may help.

Regards,
Karen (in Oz not Nz )

[codge]

Originally Posted by kaz101

Have you checked out the 'Thinking of moving to NZ' post at the top of the forum? That has links to the visa sites that may help.

Regards,
Karen (in Oz not Nz )

Hi Karen

Have check out a number of these sites but looking for someone who has real life experiance's, someone who will give the truth as alot of these sites make everything sound to good to be true at times.

We havent ruled out Australia yet either but some of the house prices seem pretty high, we would be taken about £50K as a deposit and depending on the salary etc dont think we would be getting the house of our dreams. Any further info would be welcome.

Thanks

[kaz101]

Originally Posted by codge

Hi Karen

Have check out a number of these sites but looking for someone who has real life experiance's, someone who will give the truth as alot of these sites make everything sound to good to be true at times.

That is the government site since I couldn't recommend anything else for NZ (since I'm in Oz). So they just give the facts and nothing else.

Originally Posted by codge

We havent ruled out Australia yet either but some of the house prices seem pretty high, we would be taken about £50K as a deposit and depending on the salary etc dont think we would be getting the house of our dreams. Any further info would be welcome.

It really depends on where you are moving to in Oz for your work. I would guess that house prices vary in NZ too depending on where you are moving to...

We didn't have to move to a big city in Oz (we lived in and around London for years and wanted somewhere a lot smaller) so we're in what would be considered a county town in the UK and house prices here were very cheap to what we were used to in the UK.

[Worldwide Worker]

Hi

Having just made the move from the UK to NZ some 4 months ago, I can tell you that what they say in the websites is true and then some. Having grown up in South Africa and spent most of my childhood and adult life there; NZ is as good as it gets. Don't spread the word to much though as I think the Kiwi's would like to keep it that way.

As for your skill set; There is a recession on at the moment so manufacturing is way down; even in China. But while we have mobile phones and computers, people will break them and they must be repaired. Maybe even more so over here than in the UK, where it is not such a big consumer society. You have the manufacturing skills so when things change you can always go back to that although manufacturing is not that big in NZ.

There are lots of job websites, so you must trawl them and see what the markets requires with regards to your skills. It takes work to make it happen, but the result is extremely rewarding.

Good Luck

[scott jackson]

Hi,
Don't worry about accurate information. I would suggest you to try and narrow down your search on the websites. For Example, you need to search whether you are looking for Auckland jobs, hamilton jobs or Christchurch Jobs. Jobs in New Zealand are as satisfactory as the country is.
You can visit cvb.co.nz Jobs in New Zealand are found fast on CVB.co.nz with thousands of NZ jobs in your industry - CVB[/url] which will provide you good information that will definitely help you.
Its not only jobs in IT they have a good database of jobs in engineering, management and accounting as well.
Best of luck.

[topcat83]

Try contacting Telecom or Vodafone - your mobile phone skills may be of interest to them.

Telecom New Zealand Limited and Buy mobile phones, download music, games – broadband, home phone and ringtones - Vodafone NZ

[kaztayli]

Originally Posted by Worldwide Worker

Hi

Having just made the move from the UK to NZ some 4 months ago, I can tell you that what they say in the websites is true and then some. Having grown up in South Africa and spent most of my childhood and adult life there; NZ is as good as it gets. Don't spread the word to much though as I think the Kiwi's would like to keep it that way.

As for your skill set; There is a recession on at the moment so manufacturing is way down; even in China. But while we have mobile phones and computers, people will break them and they must be repaired. Maybe even more so over here than in the UK, where it is not such a big consumer society. You have the manufacturing skills so when things change you can always go back to that although manufacturing is not that big in NZ.

There are lots of job websites, so you must trawl them and see what the markets requires with regards to your skills. It takes work to make it happen, but the result is extremely rewarding.

Good Luck

Hi there

Would you ever head back to either RSA or UK? Do you find living in NZ similar to home? Do you have any regrets on moving to NZ? May I ask where you are based and how you find the weather etc etc etc

We are wanting to head to Auckland to take our children back to the lifestyle that they started out with and I find that getting the British perspective on NZ a bit offputting (no offense) as they don't seem to understand the Southern Hemisphere way of life.