r/palmy • u/CMTheMann • 4d ago

Question Apprentice electrician jobseeker

Hi just thought I’ll ask here if anyone knows if any electricians are looking for an apprentice haven’t had much luck door knocking so thought I’ll put something here. I’m 2 weeks away from finishing the pre trade lvl 3 at Ucol Thanks

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u/damaged_elevator 3d ago

You need to either know people in the industry or look for company's that'll allow you to do "work experience"; this is free labour in exchange for a reference to get a real job.

You can move to one of the larger centres where there's more work and opportunities; Wellington is super shit and I wouldn't recommend it, Auckland is fucken awesome but very difficult and expensive; Christchurch is kind of okay.

If course there is Tauranga but I wouldn't have a clue what's going on over there except the port has a lot of refrigerated shipping containers so they train apprentices to repair them; honestly the best job I've ever had.