Those wanting work.

[Pedrostt500]

Ok this one is for all you guys and girls out there who are wanting work.
This is an Idea I have been playing with for a few years, Ok I know KB aint quiet the right place for this and yes if I wanted to I could make some money out of this, but hey Im lazy and have enough on my plate.
ok this is how it goes Kids, if you are wanting paid work, because of what ever the reason, add your KB name to this thread, a quick run down of your skills, and what sort of work you would like to do, also what area you can work in, its no good if you have to travel 4 hours to do a 2 hour job for $ 15 an hour.

Ok the second part of this Darstedly plan, those members of KB who require some one to do some paid work for you, or know of some one who requires a paid worker, weather it be casual, part time or full time PM the member who is looking for work.
If there is know one in your area or with the skills required, then add to this thread.

Try to keep this genuine folks, yep I know this is KB, and some Muppet will be along shortly looking for a Crimson Knob Polisher or some thing to the effect of.
I would just like this to be kept above board, and for it to help those Members of KB who are in need of a paid job regardless of their situation.

Ok the last thing it is up to you guys to sort out what is genuine or not and if some one is worth employing or not, or if a job is worth doing, Ie doing Due Dilligance.

Mods if this thread gets out of hand please dump it with my full permission.

[scracha]

I know of a place in sunny Te Aroha desperate for a chef.

Mind you...they have job search websites these days.

[Pedrostt500]

Yep plenty of ways for people who are looking for an employee to advertise, next to no where that a prospective Employee can say I have these skills and wish to do A. B. C types of work, and can work any where with in an hours drive from the Black Stump.
My exsperiences at looking for work have been that more often than not most companies or people looking for employees wont advertise, because it is either to exspensive, or they dont have the time to sift through 300 C.Vs for the right person, and Employment agencies are wanting an arm and a leg to fill a full time position, and often the calibre of their candidates can be lacking.

[Mr. Peanut]

Good thread, I'm looking for work in Central Auckland, don't mind traveling up to 30 minutes.

General Retail Experience
General/Heavy Labouring, Experience in the building industry.
Forklift Experience

I'd love something that keeps me moving, I like working outside too.

My Partner has just finished her IT qualification, it's called something like MCDST, it's to do with IT related customer service, if anyone knows of a good entry level position going I'm sure she'd be keen! We're saving up for a Blackbird, so you'd be helping a couple of bikers get back on the road :D

Cheers,

Chris.

[Pedrostt500]

Cool Fumeux good luck for both of you.

[fireball]

good idea.

due to school holidays (i hate them so much) im out of work from the 15th of dec till approx 5th of jan. I have a bar job that i can return to no worries but would rather a day time job that paid more than $9 per hour after secondary tax....

backround: currently an outdoor instructor so am good with kids and high demanding pressure situations
have had over 5 years retail/hospo exp so am good at selling/upselling and talking crap.


need to know more PM me.

[Pedrostt500]

Good luck fireball.

[Curious_AJ]

Yep plenty of ways for people who are looking for an employee to advertise, next to no where that a prospective Employee can say I have these skills and wish to do A. B. C types of work, and can work any where with in an hours drive from the Black Stump.
My exsperiences at looking for work have been that more often than not most companies or people looking for employees wont advertise, because it is either to exspensive, or they dont have the time to sift through 300 C.Vs for the right person, and Employment agencies are wanting an arm and a leg to fill a full time position, and often the calibre of their candidates can be lacking.

my boss never advertises, i got the job i have because i door knocked and 6 months later he had my cv on the top of the pile and i had a good interview, hence i got the job.

best way to get jobs for those of you is to door knock to everywhere you can get your dirty little hands to!

[Pedrostt500]

my boss never advertises, i got the job i have because i door knocked and 6 months later he had my cv on the top of the pile and i had a good interview, hence i got the job.

best way to get jobs for those of you is to door knock to everywhere you can get your dirty little hands to!

Yep that works.
When I'm looking for work I open the yellow pages to the General Engineering pages, and mark off all the unsuitable companies, then phone the rest, normaly after about 20 calls I have 3 or 4 interviews and one of them will be a job.

[Squiggles]

Ill put my name down, Student Job Search has gone to the dogs this year, so cant get anything to supplement my mon-fri work :(

Done tiling, building, labouring, groundskeeping, gardening and most other forms of arduous student/gap year type work. Last two years as a low end IT techy in a mac loving school.
Also tutor in science based subjects (minus Bio), can do up to 2nd year university but prefer high school level.

Only after cash work in the Auckland region. One off sorta jobs or regular for tutoring...

[vifferman]

My son The Dave is looking for work.
He's a whizz at most computer 'stuff' (hardware and software), and can program in Perl, C, assembler and some other stuff, specialises in embedded programming on circuit boards, and is a certified Linux guru. His latest project was setting up a large information storage unit (/H and S/W), with nil-latency crossover, blah blah blah.
Oh - and he's great with electronics: built his own 350W/channel amp, a pre-amp, a programmable brakelight flasher for me, and some other things.

He'd also consider other stuff I'm sure, like labouring or whatever.

[Gibbo13p]

Yep that works.
When I'm looking for work I open the yellow pages to the General Engineering pages, and mark off all the unsuitable companies, then phone the rest, normaly after about 20 calls I have 3 or 4 interviews and one of them will be a job.

Can I ask what your doing an hr General Engineering Bud?

[hayd3n]

plastic fabricator/welder of most plastics (this includes bikes)!!!!!!!!!

[scracha]

Some excellent advice here for hiring.

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[The Lone Rider]

my boss never advertises, i got the job i have because i door knocked and 6 months later he had my cv on the top of the pile and i had a good interview, hence i got the job.

best way to get jobs for those of you is to door knock to everywhere you can get your dirty little hands to!

A lot of NZ is like that. Often it's a matter of who you know, now what you know. And you happen to do more then some people.

I've twice been offered a job that I applied to through the newspaper. One I said no to, another I took and then quit a month later as it sucked.

The place I've been at for the last two years however, I only found out about due to someone telling me they were looking for people and I phoned in and asked and they said sure come in for an interview.


I have a few jobs a beautiful woman could do for me. Top pay rate, only few hours work a week though. Any takers? No? No? Awww fine :pinch:

btw - my company looking to hire like 4 new people at the moment. God we get some monkeys working here that don't last long!

[Subike]

btw - my company looking to hire like 4 new people at the moment. God we get some monkeys working here that don't last long!


And what would these jobs be?
Im not a monkey , so as a gorilla I just might be able to handle it.
Seriously, though, I am in the market for new work and relocation after Xmas to the CHCH area if I can.
I dont want to miss out on my grand daughters growing up, and Greta Valleys too fay away for casual drop in vists.

[The Lone Rider]

And what would these jobs be?
Im not a monkey , so as a gorilla I just might be able to handle it.
Seriously, though, I am in the market for new work and relocation after Xmas to the CHCH area if I can.
I dont want to miss out on my grand daughters growing up, and Greta Valleys too fay away for casual drop in vists.

You got a landline bud? PM me if you do and I'll give you my number and tell you the low down.

The position I know for sure that is up (as the guy who lost his job is going to jail), is night shift though.

But I'm also fair sure there's other positions. Might have to trim your beard though - hot equipment and lots of moving gears and things. (unless there is work in the stock yard?)

[Pedrostt500]

[QUOTE=Gibbo13p;1840372]Can I ask what your doing an hr General Engineering Bud?[/Q
I have sent you a PM.

[Lias]

My Partner has just finished her IT qualification, it's called something like MCDST, it's to do with IT related customer service,

Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician.. pretty much means you've proved you know how to support end users in using Windows XP, IE, Outlook Express etc. Professionally it's probably ahead of an A+ (but with much less hardware emphasis).

[Magua]

Hmm, looking for some work experiance.

Third year geography student (finishing in summer school) and hopefully moving onto a post grad diploma in environmental science next year. I'm looking for some work experiance in either environmental science or management, be it the consents process/site investigation etc.

Experiance in customer service (supermarkets, hell pizza), market research (lion nathan), geotechnical work (babbage consultants limited).

[Pedrostt500]

What I find that works for me is to open the Yellow pages, to the section that I am interested in, making a list of companies, that interest me, also striking off companies that are to far away, or that I know I will not like to work for, Phone each company, so you make personal contact with someone at the other end, try to get passed the secratery and onto the owner or manager, or personell for a larger company, ask if there are any positions available either now or in the forseeable future, at least try to get them to take a copy of my C.V, at best an Interview.
I find using the phone is the easiest because you dont runn your self raggard by cold calling in person to companies, and Emails can be Ignored by those who get a few hundred per day.
If they want to see a copy of your C.V try to deliver it in person rather than mail it if possible, this gets them to see you as a person, and less as a voice at the other end of a phone, keep a list of these companies and take note of who you spoke to, so if you do a follow up call a week later then you can speak to the same people.