FWIW I lived here for a few years on a work visa and it makes many employers hesitant - you might have to go out of your way to make them believe that you will be around for X years (rather than X months). As Nahum said, being active in the community is very important and posting a link to your CV here probably won't hurt either :-) Best of luck with the job search. /Eoin/
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:16 PM, nahum <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > -- Eoin Kelly | @eoinkelly <https://twitter.com/#!/eoinkelly> | Github<https://github.com/eoinkelly> | Blog <http://eoinkelly.info/> -- 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.
