re: новый тип визы - Silver Fern visa 2010-2011
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Hi there!
Well, I'm here in Auckland since AUG 29th
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The flight was ok, Riga->Istambul->Hong-Kong->Auckland. I even did a complete short bus ride to the city centre of Hong-Kong, just left my luggage in the airport for ~$10 + ~$10 for the bus ticket. The weather was hot and Hong-Kong was very very nice. Don't go by train, you will pay more and see less.
Landed fine to Auckland, went to declare one candy box, so lady oficer just registered my bio instead of detailed luggage exploring. She only told me to X-Ray my bag and that's it. The parents of my friend met me and I went to their house for the first week.
All of my hopes were satistified - beautiful nature, fresh air, clean water for probably everywhere!
My first buy was an umbrella, the second one - 2degrees mobile card...
The next day after arrival I've opened a BNZ account and applied for an IRD number from the central post office.
And now let's write about some business.
The whole first week I was searching for the housing and one interview with Acer (yep, my friend is working there as a Service Engineer).
No good results on that stage, it would be better if I had some $10K in my pocket. So for my economy beginning I did search for a flatmate options on trademe, met few of them, no respect for chinese and indian flatmate at all. Kiwi's flatemate is ok, but be carefull if you aren't gay
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So I've stayed in Manukau, which was a completely non regular contact before my flight to New Zealand. I met that russian landlord through google->my hobby's forum->member from NZ->mate of the member from NZ.
The next two weeks I was starting the job search. Right after applying ~50 internet seek&trademe vacancies I've got a feeling that this method is just a waste of my time. Even went to the free job search seminar from
Schedule for ARMS Workshops 2010 and met there a bounch of people doing the same "standard way" on their job seeking for months. This was a big motivation point for me to start thinking "out of the box".
So what I did on my 3rd week? I just started to contact IT companies directly, about 90 total. My top phrase of the day was something like: "No, not at the moment"
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But still I've got a two responses for interview and both of them were successfull despite of casual job contracts.
The first one is IT Technician, another is System Administrator. I did work for both places on my 4th week (MON->FRI).
This is true, that I started with a low min of $15/hr, but it still looks positive for my next immigration process, especially for such a competative days like now.
I continue my search for some best options as well.
My best wise tip for today: do speaking as much as you can, everyone on everything, even if you feel like there is nothing more to speak about!
