Jai Sri Ganesh, Om Sai Ram!

Question 1: Why u decided to migrate to New Zealand as a place?

Answer: There are many reasons for me to choose New Zealand to migrate and settle
in.

1. NZ is well developed and well connected country, with all sorts of

opportunities to advance my career.
IT industry is still in the growing phase in New Zealand, which provide me with
opportunity to grow my career and contribute to NZ.

2. NZ offers a great work life Balance: Consistently ranked among the top
countries, for the work life balance. If we look at the 2016 Quality of Living
Survey by Mercer, Its Rank NZ (Auckland) 3rd in the world . Another survey from
HSBC rates New Zealand 2nd best country to live in for the Expat.

3. New Zealand is very safe and secure with very low crime rates and least
corruption: As per the 2015 Global Peace Index, New Zealand is the world 4th
safest country among 162 countries.

4. Public Services in NZ are well developed: Like subsidised education system,

low cost health care system and e-governance models.

5. Cost of living in New Zealand is not so high and as per the 2016 survey by
mercer Auckland Stands at position 98 and Willington stands at rank 123 rd , in
terms of cost of living .

6. Climatic condition in New Zealand also suites me and my family as its

same as that of my home country.

7. New Zealand has one of the finest education systems, with presence of top
universities of the world like Auckland University, University of Canterbury and
University of Otago.

Question2: What would you do as soon as you arrive in New Zealand?

Answer: I will look for rental accommodation with internet connection

- Apply for the IRD Number

- Continue Looking for Job opportunity and voluntary programmes

- Setup my mobile connection and look for the mode of transportation available in
that area.

- Enrol my family with the local Primary Health Organisation (PHO) and look for the

GP (General Practitioner) near our place.

- Will Socialized around to get accustomed with the local culture

- Will join New Zealand New Comers network that will help me to understand
more about settling in and make friends.
Question 3: If you were granted a visa. How long do you need to prepare and
ready to move?

Answer: Once my Visa is approved, I will apply for the internal positions with in my
company, as they have 2 Offices in New Zealand one is in Auckland and another
one in Wellington. A part from that I did some research on job trend in New
Zealand for my Job Role. I do see lot of openings for my role in many cities. I did
contact some of the job recruiters. So initially I will search job online for 1-2
months and if I get an offer within those 1-2 months then will fly to New Zealand.
If I dont get job remotely as some of the employer prefers face-to-face interview
then would fly to New Zealand in next 3-4 months to plan for job and attend in
person interviews.

Question4: Which city you would like to settle?

Answer: I am open for the entire New Zealand. I have work experience in Storage Area
Networking and System administration, which falls under the occupational group
of SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR in NZ. I did online research for my job role in
major cities and I do see opening in many cities like Auckland, Wellington,
Hamilton and Christchurch. Where ever I get the job first will move to that city,
so there is no specific location constraint as such.

Question5: What kind of positions are you interested?

Answer: In term of professional career, I have 9+ years of experience in the field of

Storage related technologies. I have worked with customers across various industry
verticals like Telecom, Banking, FMCG, Automobiles, Health care and Education sector.
Currently I am working for Dell EMC Professional Services and I will be looking forward
for positions like Storage Architect, Senior System Engineer, and Technical Project
Manager.

I am also certified in cloud technologies, which are the upcoming trend in the IT and are
high demand in New Zealand.

Question6: What do u know about opportunity under current deliver market

for this type of work in New Zealand?

Answer: I have done a lot of research for this and if one studies the market trends,
there are lot of opportunities in New Zealand, while most of the IT jobs are in main
centres with Auckland 50%, Wellington around 25%, followed by Christ church.
I saw many opening related to my job profile on different Job portals like New Kiwi/Work
Here/Trade Me /Seek . In fact I spoke to some of the consultant and told them that my
resident visa is in progress and I am looking for job and they assured me that once I get
my resident visa they will assist me in finding job as soon as possible.

Apart from that I have seen many programmes are run by the government of New
Zealand to help the employers and job seekers. For Eg: Migrant Kiwis Programme
run by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, to help the new migrants to get the local
work experience. So in sort I can say lot of opportunity are there in IT Domain in New
Zealand.

Question7: How long you have been investigating for looking employment in
New Zealand?

Answer: I have discussed with my friends, who are living in New Zealand about
various aspects regarding immigrating to NZ. It looks very promising; on the feedback I
got from them.

Apart from that, I have gone through the NZ immigration website, to understand the
immigration procedures. It explains how to apply for residency and what to do next once
u are in New Zealand; How to find the Job in New Zealand; How to find housing ; how to
be well verse with New Zealand Culture; What are the property rate.

During the application of immigration I started doing the job market research.

Question 8: Are there any employer in New Zealand that particularly impress
you?

Answer: There are many open positions for my role with different companies, but I am
waiting for my resident visa, before I approach them, because many companies have
policy to consider applications of those applicants holding valid work visa.

But to be precise the companies, which have open positons matching my skill set are
HP, AWS, ANZ, Fujitsu, Data Dimension and Hitachi Data Storage Systems.

Question 9: Intention to find full time or part time employment?

Answer: My Intention is to look for full time employment. If I do not find any job
remotely then will fly to New Zealand and once I am in New Zealand then I start with
some part time work or do some Voluntary works as it helps to build relationship and
get some references and this will also help me to understand New Zealand culture and
New Zealand way of job working. Definitely I will consider both but my main focus is to
look for the Full Time employment.

Question 10: Are you familiar with the salary range for your Occupation?

Answer: Yes I did some research on salary as well, for my kind of work experience and
number of years the salary ranges from 80000 NZD to 110000 NZD. There are few
employers who are ranging from 85000 to 95000 NZD. The average is around 90 to 100
K.
Question 11: Do you think you will encounter any difficulties in finding skilled
employment?

Answer: No I dont think and I believe definitely will find the skilled employment
looking at number of openings.

Question 12: Once you enter New Zealand how long do you expect it will take
you to get a skilled job ?

Answer: Well it depends but I am actually expecting to get within 3 months as I will
have opportunity to have face-to-face interview with employer and recruiter.

Question 13: In social ways have u given any thoughts how you will integrate
and settle?

Answer: I do have some friends in New zealand and I will connect to other people
through community and social media circles.

In 2004 Family & Community Services Ministry of Social Development established

Settling In, an initiative to help migrants settle successfully in New Zealand. In the 2005
Settling In Nelson-Tasman report isolation and settling into a new community and
making friends were three of the issues identified. To address this problem the first
Settling in supported Newcomers Network was set up under the auspices of the Nelson
Multicultural Council in 2006., and it led to develpoment of web portal called
Newcomers Network. It will help me in settling into New Zealand,with finding a
home, a job, schools for children, making new friends, understanding the language,
accents and finding the confidence and support.

There is another web portal named, Kiwi Families, a trusted parenting website for
more than 10 years. It provide help with free tips, tools and advice from some of the
best New Zealand parenting experts, to help grow great families in New Zealand. I
strongly believe by growing great families together, we grow a great community
together. And it really does take a community to raise a child. There are thousands of
parents out there just like us which are connected through this website and all have the
common fears, and enjoy the common successes.

Another way to connect socially is through joining various councils & communities
under umbrella of New Zealand Federation of Multicultural councils The New
Zealand Federation of Multicultural Councils Inc. was established in July 1989 as an
incorporated, non-government body, which acts as an umbrella organisation for the
ethnic communities of New Zealand. The Federation's primary role is to promote,
support and share information among the Regional Councils and New Zealand's Ethnic
Communities.
Apart for all these websites and portals there are several social media pages and groups
to help me socially connect with people like New to New Zealand Facebook page, New
zealand Meet up groups, etc.

Question 14: How long have u been in Singapore ?

Answer: I have been in Singapore for 4years and 9 months.

Question 15: Apart from Singapore and India have u been to any other
country?

Answer: I have been to other countries for holidays only like- I have been to Malaysia,
Thailand and Indonesia.

Question 16: What do you know about Housing market in New Zealand?

Answer: There are several housing options in New Zealand Suburban homes, Rural
living, Aparments, Flats & Townhouses. There are two options for housing either renting
or buying. We will start our housing journey by renting. That way we can take time
seeing whats available and where we would like to live before making a commitment.

The building & Housing Group within Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
gives advice & guidance about all rental tenancies in New Zealand. Also there are some
websites like- TradeMe property which help in finding suitable renting accomdation
available in New Zealand.

Also during my research on Housing market in New Zealand, I found that renting
depends upon quality, location and size of the property. Acording to MBIE & rental
websites, average rental for a 1-2 bedroom home is around 350-450 NZD a week.
Central suburb of Auckland is around 400-420 NZD per week and Wellington is around
300-350 NZD a week.

Question 17: What do you know about general cost of living in New Zealand

According to an independent international survey Auckland ranked 61st in the world in

terms of its cost of living, and Wellington 83rd, as compared to other major cities like
Singapore ; Hong Kong; New York ; London.

The general cost of living is sum total of costs of housing, food,

transportation,education, entertainment, personal care, health and clothing.

New Zealand has GST tax that currently applies at 15% that is added to the price of
most things you buy. It doesnt apply to rent on a home, apartment, flat or other
accommodation. It also doesnt apply to financial transactions, like bank charges, or to
income. Apart from that the governments Statistics Department has a publication
called New Zealand in Profile which lists the prices of some common purchases &
commodoties. Every three years or so New Zealand government Statistics Department
surveys what households are actually spending and we can get an understanding or
view of average New Zealand weekly household budget.

So according to information provided by my friends and research that I have conducted

the total net cost of living is approximately is between 1000-1200 NZD per week.
Various types of costs that amount to cost of living can be understood by going through
various websites. Food costs are around NZ$91-109 a week according to survey
conducted by university of Otago.

Accommodation costs are around 350-450 NZD per week and or a quick overview,
check New Zealands very popular, privately owned TradeMe site.

Vehicle costs: Most people in New Zealand find they need a car. Many buy their cars
second hand. Privately-operated TradeMe Motors can give you a good idea of what used
cars cost here. An annual expense involved with owning a car is the vehicle license or
registration (rego). Registration costs vary according to the cars make and its age. As
an example however registration for a late model, petrol engined Ford Focus 2L
currently costs NZ$271.27. All cars also need to be tested for a Warrant of Fitness. That
will cost you NZ$50-80 (not including any repairs that may be necessary). How often
you need to have your car tested will depend on the age of the car. If you choose a
diesel engine car, you will also pay road user charges (RUC) which are calculated per
kilometre.

Insurance costs : To get an idea of the costs of life, health, income and mortgage
insurance, privately operated TradeMe has a site where you can source quotes from a
range of providers.

Utilities: The energy website of New Zealands leading consumer organisation has a lot
of information about energy providers and their charges.

Question 18: How many Friends do you have in New Zealand?

Answer: In New Zealand I have 2-3 friends, who are holding residency visa over there.

Question 19: What kind of support do you expect to get from them?

Answer: As I mentioned earlier I have 2-3 friends, they will help in finding a suitable
good rental accomdation and also they are part of some communities which will support
me for any issue or obstacles I faced. So there is support for me in New Zealand

Question 20: Are there any other people is able to support you in finding
skilled employment?

Answer: I have contacted the some of recruiter and they did mention once you have
the Resident visa they will help me to search the skilled employment. I just discussed
with them on the phone. Even I have discussed with my friends and they mentioned
they will help me in searching the job.