Having a really well put together CV can be important too. When hiring, it's often just a quick look at a resume that puts it in the "maybe if none of these other ones pan out" category. There are a lot of professional CV people around, it might be worth talking to one of them.
Cheers Kem On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Edwin Rozario <[email protected]> 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. > -- 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.
