When our Tauranga recruitment agency interviews candidates for jobs in regional New Zealand, they\u2019re usually expecting to discuss their career wins, relevant experience and salary aspirations. But that\u2019s not where we start.<\/p>\n
Before anything else, we want to know what their situation is. Why are they looking at moving? \u00a0What sports, facilities or clubs are integral to their happiness, and are they available in the town or city where they\u2019re thinking of living? Are they prepared to embrace the many bonuses of life in a smaller centre, and live without the aspects of big city life they\u2019d be leaving behind?<\/p>\n
Candidates can be surprised by our prying. It\u2019s not that we\u2019re nosy; it\u2019s that the perfect job is only the perfect job if it also a good fit with other key parts of your life, namely family and lifestyle. These questions, and the details they extract, won\u2019t have any bearing on whether a candidate will get a job \u2013 but they might help a candidate gain clarity on whether they actually want that job. It\u2019s about figuring out what would need to happen for this move to be successful for you.<\/p>\n
We have seen people make the big and exciting move to Tauranga, so they can put out a longline every morning before breakfast and their children can run along the beach after school. And then they\u2019ve had to leave because their partner couldn\u2019t get a job and they couldn\u2019t make ends meet on one income.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why we look at the infrastructure around each candidate and work to understand what a successful move will look like for them. Your future employer might not take the time to understand that you won\u2019t be able to play competitive rugby league to the same level as you did in Auckland or that you\u2019re going to be disappointed to the point of reconsidering your move if you can\u2019t buy a home in a particular suburb. But we will \u2013 because we don\u2019t want to be putting candidates forward for jobs if we suspect they might not last.<\/p>\n
Our employment agency\u00a0wants candidates who will thrive and grow in the Bay. That requires ensuring our candidates haven\u2019t ignored some major piece of the puzzle as they\u2019ve been planning a move to the Bay. You\u2019d be surprised how often people say they accepted a role and just assumed their partner would also get a job easily. Or they underestimated how much their kids would miss the grandparents. Or they were out of practice with making friends and didn\u2019t realise how lonely those first few months, or years, would be.<\/p>\n
Most people move to somewhere like Tauranga for the lifestyle. Some take a sideways step, many take a step back, to get into a role with one of the city\u2019s bigger employers \u2013 the Port of Tauranga, Zespri, Ballance, the councils and DHB, Comvita, Craigs Investment Partners, and the large contracting firms such as Downer.<\/p>\n
Most candidates are comfortable adjusting their pay expectations and career status in order to access the Bay lifestyle. Naturally, they remain hopeful of getting a decent package and retaining the seniority they enjoyed in the big cities \u2013 and sometimes we are able to achieve that.<\/p>\n
But some of the most successful candidates we\u2019ve seen have been those who are able to be savvy in their approach to the local job market. If competition is high with the most obvious employers, maybe you should consider the Bay\u2019s emerging start-ups and innovative SMEs. There are many local companies enjoying extraordinary growth and they might be looking for someone with your excellent experience to grow with them. You could be a big player in the growth of an exciting export success story.<\/p>\n
Here at recruitment company<\/a> Ryan + Alexander, we ask all the big picture and personal questions first, because we want to be able to guide you into a role which is a perfect fit for you and your lifestyle. Once we get a handle on what success will look like for you, we will definitely be excited to hear that you have won various industry awards, broken all sales records or risen through the ranks with a multi-national company.<\/p>\n But the very first questions we ask will always be about what kind of life you want in the Bay of Plenty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When our Tauranga recruitment agency interviews candidates for jobs in regional New Zealand, they\u2019re usually expecting to discuss their career wins, relevant experience and salary aspirations. But that\u2019s not where we start. Before anything else, we want to know what their situation is. Why are they looking at moving? \u00a0What sports, facilities or clubs are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,46,1],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16.jpeg",710,473,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16.jpeg",710,473,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16-540x320.jpeg",540,320,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16.jpeg",710,473,false],"large":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16.jpeg",710,473,false],"amoteam-general":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16-640x473.jpeg",640,473,true],"tf-client-image-size":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16-120x120.jpeg",120,120,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16.jpeg",710,473,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16.jpeg",710,473,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16.jpeg",710,473,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16-540x320.jpeg",540,320,true],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16-140x100.jpeg",140,100,true],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16.jpeg",710,473,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16.jpeg",710,473,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16-600x473.jpeg",600,473,true],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RA-News-Dec-16-600x473.jpeg",600,473,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Kiri Burney","author_link":"https:\/\/ryanandalexander.co.nz\/author\/randakiri\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"News<\/a> Recruitment<\/a> Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"When our Tauranga recruitment agency interviews candidates for jobs in regional New Zealand, they\u2019re usually expecting to discuss their career wins, relevant experience and salary aspirations. But that\u2019s not where we start. Before anything else, we want to know what their situation is. Why are they looking at moving? \u00a0What sports, facilities or clubs are…","yoast_head":"\n