I had the same problem when I moved to Australia. Applying for jobs through sites like seek was completely useless. I eventually found a good rails group, sent them an email and had two job offers very quickly.
Another good group that is based in wellington is "well railed". If you're flexible about location it'd be a good one to check out. On 15 October 2013 09:47, Eoin Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
