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Living and Working in New Zealand: How to Build a New Life in New Zealand (How to)
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Product Description
This updated and revised text offers information and advice about making the decision to go to New Zealand, coping with the migration process, settling into your new home, employment or business and starting out on a new life.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #355163 in Books
- Published on: 2003-12-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 354 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
This book is for anyone who's ever dreamed of living in New Zealand. Full of useful tips on immigration procedures, job-hunting, self-employment, education, health and much, much more.
About the Author
Joy Muirhead has first-hand experience of emigrating to New Zealand and building a new life for herself and her family.
Customer Reviews
Out of date and lots of bumpf
After a trip to NZ last month I purchased this book and another of a same title (ISBN: 1901130762) as I have the serious intention of emigrating.
I was very disappointed with this book for two reasons.
1. The book is full of copies of immigration/work permit, etc. forms. Also there are number of illustrations of newspaper ads e.g. 'here is what a jod ad looks like in NZ'. These illustrations seemed to be there to add thickness to the book.
2. My major disappointment was that a lot of the information was years out of date. Although the book says that this was revised for 2004 a lot of the detail in the book was out of date based on my trip, some I belive has not been updated since its first publication in 1994. The useful contacts section at the back had been updated and conflicted the 'older' contact details in the body the book
Examples: using education system terminology that was changed 4 years ago, quoting a city paper that has been out of print for some time. qutoing the summer high for Christchurch as 25C yet when was there it was 35C+ and the locals told me this was normal.
The style is also very 'amateur'.
Frankly I get the feeling that the author threw this together at a whim and keeps is barely current by updating the reference list in the back.
I have purchased Living and Working in New Zealand
Jim Watson (Illustrator) ISBN: 1901130762 instead (far superior) and thrown this one in the bin. Waste of £12.99
