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If you’re a skilled migrant and you want to make the move to New Zealand, under Immigration New Zealand policy you will need an offer of employment that matches your skills and experience in most cases. Even if you’re coming to join family you may be in a category that requires a job offer and, if not, chances are you’d still like to have the security of knowing you can live comfortably, maintain your professional path and get the social contacts you will make through work once you arrive.  Our website provides a great way to get your profile and CV in front of employers who genuinely want to recruit from overseas, and also enables you to view vacancies that have already been screened as suitable for skilled migration. 

In addition, if you retain our full visa services and are pursuing your own independent job search at the same time we will be happy to contact prospective employers on your behalf to explain your immigration status and how we will be supporting you through the process.  This is important as many New Zealand employers do not have much experience employing from overseas, think it will be too complicated or time consuming, or are just plain scared to do it.  We hear all the time from candidates that they have been told 'Your CV looks great - get in touch when you have your work visa' by employers or recruitment agents who don't understand that they need a job offer before they can apply for the visa.  We find that there is often a remarkable turnaround once we explain how the visa application works, that you are eligible to migrate and that we will be handling your application so the employer has a local contact who they can get in touch with whenever they need to, either to liaise with you or to help them with their own part of the Immigration New Zealand formalities.

We will also be happy to review jobs you are interested in applying for that are not advertised through our website to let you know whether they would be suitable for achieving your migration aims.  That way neither you nor the employers involved will waste time on applications that would not be suitable.

 
Our experienced Immigration Specialists will work closely with you to help you through every step of the process, enabling you to submit the best application possible.  We can act as your agent and fully prepare and submit the application on your behalf.  To enable you to get a head start we may offer you the chance to pay a 50% service retainer on our full visa service, and then we will work with you to ensure that all your documentation is in order, and any potential sticking points have been ironed out in advance so your application will sail through.

Clients who retain our services in this way will have an additional field added to their Job Link profile that indicates to employers that the Client has "Move Ready" status.  This tells an employer at a glance that you have already worked with us to prepare your paperwork, and that all that's need from them is to make you a job offer for you to be able to join them in as little as a few weeks.  Because it can take 4-10 weeks to get your documents together and your case organised, we highly recommend that take this step before beginning to apply for jobs.

Starting life in a new country can be difficult.  With our help you won't be alone - our resettlement experts will provide you with whatever you need for you and your family to make a successful transition in the first few months after you arrive.

 

 

New Life New Zealand works in partnership with employers, government agencies, recruitment consultancies and economic development agencies to help alleviate the skills shortage in New Zealand. We ensure that all vacancies are genuine, up to date, have been assessed as eligible under Immigration New Zealand policy and that the employers welcome applicants from overseas.