[MotherBear]

PR can take anything from a couple of months to nearly a year to go through. It depends on several things like how many points you have, whether you have a job offer, whether you have any problems with the police or medical certificates and how busy NZIS is at the time you apply and how badly they want you there.

If you can get a job offer you can apply for a Work Permit which shouldn't take long to get. You can also go to NZ to look for work on a Visit Visa and apply for your WP from there, while your PR application is going through or even before you submit it. If you enter NZ on a VV, you shouldn't tell immigration that you are looking for work because working on a VV is not allowed.

If your PR application goes in and you get a job offer later, you should let NZIS know if you get a job offer because it will affect your application (in a good way :)).