karl corney
English expat in New Zealand
Forum posts
13
Contacts
9
About me
English
Lives in Wellington City, Wellington
Registration: 03 March 2015
Occupation
I am Job seeker.
My expat journey
Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand
Having moved here with my partner we fell in love with NZ and are now in the process of settling here permanently.
I am an illustrator/designer and employ both traditional and digital techniques to produce the best results.
The location, people and lifestyle fit the outlook of myself and my other half and we love our time and the prospect of our future here.
I wish that it was a little easier being able to find suitable work and full time employment here as networking seems to be the best way of finding jobs, which makes it more difficult than expected.
Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lived in HCMC for nearly a year in preparation for my move to NZ.
Creative Director and professional animator
Over all found life in Vietnam to be a very different experience from my first time spent there in 2002.
England
Activity
Finding work, using Vietnamworks and how formal your CV needs to be? by karl corney
Hello all, New member here, and would really appreciate a little advice if you could spare me a minute? My other half and I have relocated to Vietnam recently and would love to find some work, I'm an experienced Graphic Designer/Illustrator and ...
Hey Phil, nice to meet you... We've certainly had our ups and downs but hey, that's life and despite the fact that I'm not sure that either of us would want to settle permanently in VN we can see why it certainly appeals to many, just ... Read More
Finding work, using Vietnamworks and how formal your CV needs to be? by karl corney
Hello all, New member here, and would really appreciate a little advice if you could spare me a minute? My other half and I have relocated to Vietnam recently and would love to find some work, I'm an experienced Graphic Designer/Illustrator and ...
Hey, Not a problem and very kind of you to say. I think that a large part of the problem can be (or at least was for us) the lack of relevant information that is out there from people that have done something similar and the ability to keep it up ... Read More
Working in Vietnam by Revolutionary
I will likely be moving to Vietnam in the next couple years and have some questions about working there? What hoops do foreigners have to ump through to legally work in Vietnam. I already have a job where I can work anywhere I have access to the ...
^^ This Sorry, it seems that I have been here long enough now to forget that "internet sharks" is not a standard nor normal phrase. Many of the Vietnamese locals that I know have said (very quietly) that this is simply an urban myth ... Read More
Working in Vietnam by Revolutionary
I will likely be moving to Vietnam in the next couple years and have some questions about working there? What hoops do foreigners have to ump through to legally work in Vietnam. I already have a job where I can work anywhere I have access to the ...
Hey Charlotte, I work as an illustrator/animator here in HCMC but also have a practice as a freelance designer which means that I can do all of my work online and send to my clients digitally from wherever I may be living. If you are working for ... Read More
Finding work, using Vietnamworks and how formal your CV needs to be? by karl corney
Hello all, New member here, and would really appreciate a little advice if you could spare me a minute? My other half and I have relocated to Vietnam recently and would love to find some work, I'm an experienced Graphic Designer/Illustrator and ...
Hey Jon, Thanks for the nice words and completely agree with your comments too. HCMC (well, Vietnam as a whole) can obviously be a tough place to live for the uninitiated and I think that my other half being able to network and make friends not ... Read More
Finding work, using Vietnamworks and how formal your CV needs to be? by karl corney
Hello all, New member here, and would really appreciate a little advice if you could spare me a minute? My other half and I have relocated to Vietnam recently and would love to find some work, I'm an experienced Graphic Designer/Illustrator and ...
To be honest there seemed to be a good number of positions in the field and I began back in the UK by registering and getting a profile up on VietnamWorks.com, this gave me a little false hope that there would be a ton stuff once I got here and I ... Read More
Finding work, using Vietnamworks and how formal your CV needs to be? by karl corney
Hello all, New member here, and would really appreciate a little advice if you could spare me a minute? My other half and I have relocated to Vietnam recently and would love to find some work, I'm an experienced Graphic Designer/Illustrator and ...
To be honest now I've been here for about 10 months and been working for the last 9 of them in a design and animation role while my other half has been turning down teaching offers left and right because she has enough on her plate working 50 ... Read More
how much is iPhone 6 & 6+? by kattie1120
Can someone give me an idea how much is iPhone 6 & 6+ in Vietnam? Are there apple stores in HCMC?
Yup, as tthuff mentioned in his last post thats the current price you'll be looking at. Just saw a 6+ 128gb in the Diamond Plaza shopping centre (top floor) going for about 21milVND but if you ask them to fill in the forms at time of purchase ... Read More
Finding work, using Vietnamworks and how formal your CV needs to be? by karl corney
Hello all, New member here, and would really appreciate a little advice if you could spare me a minute? My other half and I have relocated to Vietnam recently and would love to find some work, I'm an experienced Graphic Designer/Illustrator and ...
Heya Cindy, Thanks for your reply, yeah I know competition can be stiff, but I'm still hoping that diligence, hard work and honesty will pay off for me in the end. Wasn't expecting to drop onto a job immediately and spent the last two or ... Read More
Finding work, using Vietnamworks and how formal your CV needs to be? by karl corney
Hello all, New member here, and would really appreciate a little advice if you could spare me a minute? My other half and I have relocated to Vietnam recently and would love to find some work, I'm an experienced Graphic Designer/Illustrator and ...
Hey Addison, Nice to meet you, thanks for the reply! I'm partly TEFL qualified myself, did the classroom skills part but after seeing so much graphics work on sites like Vietnamworks thought I'd be better concerntrating on that, but maybe ... Read More
Finding work, using Vietnamworks and how formal your CV needs to be? by karl corney
Hello all, New member here, and would really appreciate a little advice if you could spare me a minute? My other half and I have relocated to Vietnam recently and would love to find some work, I'm an experienced Graphic Designer/Illustrator and ...
Hi, Thanks so much for getting back to me much appreciated and myself and the other half found your tips very useful especially the insight about quality of relevant degrees and such. I'm more than happy to start at much lower pay scales here ... Read More
Finding work, using Vietnamworks and how formal your CV needs to be?
Hello all, New member here, and would really appreciate a little advice if you could spare me a minute? My other half and I have relocated to Vietnam recently and would love to find some work, I'm an experienced Graphic Designer/Illustrator and ... Read More