Well after a rushed morning finishing packing for every eventuality, we finally left on the 2 hour trip London around 9am. Liam and Tracey - good friends of ours are coming to the New Zealand Exp with us and staying over in London. Tracey works for the IHG hotel grup and got us a storming deal at a Holiday Inn for a comfy nights sleep!
The show at London Olympia was packed - and much smaller than we expected. All the key stands had good queues and many people seemed to come well prepared with fistfuls of CVs and questions. There were all kinds of stands there. New Zealand Immigration, banks, recruitment agencies, shipping companies, estate agents etc. Rach and I mainly went to check out the shipping options as neither of us are easy candidates for your average recruitment consultant.I have some firm work in Wellington and Rach will probably continue her public art and video commissions once there. The seminars that were running throughout the day seemed very informative also. I think these are great places to find potential NZ work if you come from an easy profession to place with some recognised qualifications to boot - otherwise the consensus of opinion seems to be to get yourself over there and get a job in person!
One method that seems to be successful for a lot of people of to go though the NZ Yellow Pages and pick out 10 employers that you would like to work for and send them your CV - sounds obvious but it seems to work for a lot of people.
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