NZpol: A Dick-Burning Dumpster Fire

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homeowner	39	22.41%
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Weatherman: Jul 30, 2003; WARBLEKLONK

Hello thread. Sorry to barge in like this but this is the only NZ thread on these dead gay forums.

Is anyone here working in IT in NZ and willing to answer a few questions for me? If so, please PM me. Thank you for reading and namaste

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Weatherman: Jul 30, 2003; WARBLEKLONK

Champion, thanks folks.

The wife and I are looking to emigrate to NZ from Japan by mid-2020 at the latest. I'm a dual Australian-NZ citizen but have never lived in NZ. We've both visited several times though and are dead set on moving. I'm fixed on Wellington for the proximity to nature while the wife would prefer Auckland since she's a city girl. She also wants to buy a house though so I am thinking "definitely not Auckland". If that's where the work is, though, that's where we'll have to go.

I'm a very-generalist who does sysadmin work on mostly Microsoft products but have experience in networking, storage, cloud infra, user support, etc. The role I'm in now is short-term-project-style "roll out a system for the client that will do this, and have it done by X". A good role for learning the ins and outs of the products in that particular project. Since it's a Japanese company with big (conservative) clients, we need to have everything fully designed and documented (down to the "these are the checkboxes that are selected" level) before starting out, and what would usually be a 15-minute install ends up being an hour or so since we take screenshots and notes and all that stuff along the way. I'm 38 this year and haven't had a management role yet but would be comfortable leading a small team.

We last visited NZ in 2015 and were told by a couple of the locals that there was a shortage of skilled IT folk, and the news I've seen on the topic hasn't changed since then. So on that note:
- Is that still true?
- What's a general salary range someone like me might expect to see? Do companies ever pay relocation allowances? (The latter is a "would be nice but no biggie")
- What's the best way to go looking for positions -- through a recruiter or by visiting companies' pages directly? And if the former, are there any recommended recruiters?
- How likely is it that a company would do all but the final interview over Skype or something like that?
- Lastly, is there any demand for this kind of IT work outside the two major cities?

Thanks again for your time.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2018 12:15

Weatherman: Jul 30, 2003; WARBLEKLONK

Thanks very much for the information. I feel like I know which directions to be looking in now. Sad to hear about the supposed "shortage" but at least it's not a total disaster. Got that other thread bookmarked now too!

# ¿ Apr 19, 2018 23:27