Jeez, this is like pulling teeth, how many operators given the fierce competition with more pilots than there are jobs are going to go for the bare legal minimum?
And even at that are going make a promise to you.
If you can sit tight with 1 operator you did your initial training with and stay there having spent all your money on a shiney Ccat and MEIR (the option which keeps all NZ flight schools and ASL going), get crap pay and crap hours and work your way up several years later, yeah you might just do it. Good luck to you.
Or you can save the $1000's on a Ccat, a MEIR at 250total time and the IR renewal a year later for the IR you haven't used, and go another path.
Try the path less travelled that requires a plan rather than the rut that is NZ aviation.