Holiday Strategy 2022 / 2023 – It happens only once per year. The post-holiday hiring boom is worth preparing for. Enter the job boom with confidence!
If you want to attend this 10-part Mini Course at no cost, I just need to see your CV first, to check your best strategy into the country so I know you are not wasting your time with this strategy.
Send your CV to me at tate@employmentforimmigration.nz for a response within a day.
Looks like good news to me. This was a huge area of disappointment for many of my clients – now being deferred until April 2023.
This gives INZ time to allow a reasonable transition towards raising the bar for skilled immigrants again.
Because INZ has been raising the bar on immigrants for several decades now, the best time to migrate is always “right now”!
Read more here – https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/media-centre/news-notifications/changes-to-partner-work-visas-deferred-to-april-2023/view
And here – https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/changes-partner-work-visas-deferred-april-2023
Benefits for migrants:
Benefits for employers:
Why is the JOB OFFER so important to Migrants?
Because, everything follows naturally from the job offer, including: the work visa, the travel, the house rental, schools if you have children. And once you have relocated, the kind of work you have will continue to shape your experience towards career growth and quality of life opportunities. There are many reasons why it is important to focus on the job first and then schedule everything else around that process.
Every Job-seeker has a unique and customised strategy – The hiring decision depends on two people: 1) the job-seeker and 2) the hiring manager. Both have needs that match and both benefit from a good hiring decision. The job market is just a collection of hiring decisions.
If you can answer these 3 questions successfully, you will get work. You will be successful at finding work in any country, any industry, any role. My system and support uses universal principles that apply to any competitive job market.
If you want to attend this 10-part Mini Course at no cost, I just need to see your CV and if you could also let me know your immigration status and goals, I will respond within a day.
Send to me at tate@employmentforimmigration.nz
A successful immigration story about a talented tradesman who came up against many delays and challenges, but he never stopped smiling.
“You definitely need to have a positive attitude and energy to go through this journey. You will get your ups and downs. For me, you must always take your downs and turn them into positives.”
– Christo
A few interesting facts about millionaire migrants:
1) Little New Zealand is getting half as many millionaire migrants as the United States while having only 1.5% of the population.
2) The only country receiving more millionaires than Australia is the UAE but since the UAE almost never allows citizenship, Australia will end up getting some of those as well.
3) NZ + Australia receives 4,300 millionaire migrants compared to 2,500 that US + Canada, which is like saying NZ + Australia get 170% more millionaires than the US + Canada with only 8% of the population.
Insights from the Millionaire Migration Map – If millionaires are generally smart and capable people who have the ability to live almost anywhere, then why so many want to live in New Zealand and Australia?
And can we enjoy some of the same benefits of peace, nature, opportunity, weather, family, culture, future, etc… as they do?
After landing in New Zealand, foreign migrants typically comment about the friendliness of Kiwis, the cleanliness of the city, the beauty of the nature and the safe, relaxed nature of society. New Zealand is also one of the few genuinely “kid friendly” countries in the world. Job seekers have said these to me this week after landing in New Zealand and the same things were said also last month and last year and during lockdowns and before lockdowns for many years prior. New Zealand hasn’t changed.
During lockdowns, the reputation of New Zealand has been tarnished and dragged through the mud. In many cases, this is deserved. However, policies from our government don’t reflect the New Zealand society. I can offer proof of this statement based on what incoming migrants have been telling me.
I can respect the opinions of people who have been financially and professionally harmed by the bad polices of our government during lockdowns. But who is really to blame. It was a tiny few people in certain government departments who created and enforced bad policy.
New Zealand is still the best country for all those reasons that people have always loved about New Zealand. Those things have remained remarkably constant for many decades.
In my opinion and based on the informal opinion polls that I receive from new migrants; New Zealand is still the best country for all those reasons that people have always loved about New Zealand. Change is always happening, but those things have remained remarkably constant for many decades.
I had a good experience contacting employers this week. I talked with 50 employers so far and will continue today with a couple more sessions scheduled.
This week I had a client get a job offer within 24-hours of a calling session. When things happen this fast, you know it was a perfect-fit type of decision from the side of employers. It is really great when that happens. 
I am finding that most of the employers are comfortable with the hiring process by now. The fear of INZ has gone way down but trust has still not returned, and I don’t think it will return completely because the hiring process for foreigners continues to shift and policies continue to be misunderstood. And yet, the hiring continues because uncertainty is down to acceptable levels. The time from a hiring decision to starting work is shrinking, which is good for everyone.
Australia is still pulling talent from New Zealand, adding pressure to our candidate-short market and that is across the board. Australia has always had a stronger economy; they pay more and have warmer weather. On the other hand, the Aussie immigration process is more complex and about twice more expensive than New Zealand from the point of view of most foreign job seekers.
Both New Zealand and Australia continue to require all the diverse skills that were in demand prior to the lockdowns, especially tradesmen, engineers, medical, teachers, and specialists of all disciplines and sectors.
If you have exceptional skills and the suitable qualifications, then it is worth spending the time to communicate your strengths clearly as part of your job finding process so that employers see you as a low-risk, high value addition to their team. Whether niche or traditional, almost any skilled background can be successful in both NZ and Australian job markets with the right preparation and approach.
With holidays coming up, we have 6-weeks of an active job market before hiring stops for about 4 weeks. Then comes the post-holiday hiring boom. It happens every year and it is always good to hit the post holiday hiring season with a good plan.
Good luck everyone! Things are slowly getting better over here.
The #1 problem of finding work abroad is getting into initial conversations with employers. For most people, the efforts are too high, and the results are too low.
When this challenge is overcome there is another challenge that may seem a bit surprising to some people. It is something I call the “Hope Trap”.
What is the Hope Trap? That is when a job seeker decides to stop looking for work as soon as one meeting is scheduled with one employer.
From the job seeker’s point of view, it makes sense. They have so much weight on their shoulders. The immigration process is time consuming and expensive and risky. Migrants sometimes want the job search to be finished, so when there is a slight chance of getting hired, it is tempting to stop a successful effort and “hope” that this future meeting will result in the perfect job offer.
The way to avoid the “Hope Trap” is to continue job finding until a contract is signed. This is exactly what the employers are doing when they look for candidates.
If you or someone you know is tempted to stop looking for work when a meeting has been arranged with an employer, tell that person to continue because “the game isn’t over until you win!”
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