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Hi,
We live in Hamilton, and the IT jobs are not plentyful, thats for sure! Hamilton is the 4th largest city, and does have plenty of work flying around, but its more industrial engineering kind of jobs, than hi-tech sectors such as IT. When IT jobs do arise, then tend not to be too well paid.

It's Auckland or Wellington for the best paid, and best variety of work in IT.

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I keep scanning seek.co.nz and itmaniacs etc.. but there doesn't seem to be THAT many IT jobs around (for a country that has a massive skills shortage anyway)
I've seen a few Cisco jobs around which is the reason why I decided to make a start at the Cisco jobs.. my other specialised subject is IBM As400 and there are absolutely NO As400 jobs around.

What's your area of IT expertise? Are you a code jockey of some kind? I remember reading some of your posts shortly after you got there and you seemed very downhearted about the job scene... Should I start thinking of a non IT get out clause before we get there? My wife should be okay for work as she is (or will be a midwife)


thanks again for your swift replies...

Hi,
My background is IT engineering and web development. The main problems when wanting IT work is so many companies want you to have an MSCE or MCP etc etc which I dont have, but plenty of others do!

If anything, I'd recommend doing an MSCE, or at least do one module and get an MCP.

For those reading who dont have a clue what I mean, MCSE is Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and MCP is Microsoft Certified Professional. They are only bits of paper that make Microsoft even more wealthy, but they do tend to open doors in IT!

(Yes, OK, the MCSE is a hard qualification! I know, I'm doing it!)