Got a link to your CV? As sad as it sounds getting no response isn't that uncommon, so your CV has to make a great impression to get your foot into the door. Like everywhere else I think that locals are given preference, the rails community in NZ is pretty tight and often below the radar of recruitment agents so lots of jobs are filled via established networks etc... Getting active in the community is really important.
Also, I have 7.5 years experience with rails :-) --nahum On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 17:53:55 UTC+13, Edwin Rozario wrote: > > Hi Guys > > I have been in this country for about 7 months and i have applied for > at lest 300 jobs. I have solid programming experience in Ruby and Python > for 3 years. I am pretty sure that no company in NZ is working on projects > like which i have worked on back in India. I was handling applications with > 80000 hits an hour which had web, telecome, mobile and a lot of background > components. Despite these out of about 300 jobs i have applied for less > than 10 of them replied to me. > > Yesterday i had a phone interview. My name fortunately sounds > English. The position clearly said 3 years experience in Ruby. As the > caller realised that i am on a work visa, she asked for 6 years experience > in RoR. Which is utterly funny :D. I thought of advising her to find David > Heinemeier. Now i am feel that it was a very wrong decision to leave > MobileExpress <https://www.mobileexpress.in/> only to join my wife who is > studying in NZ. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WellRailed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wellrailed. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
