Can anyone help me find Employer Sponsorship please?
Hi Everyone!
My name is Sue and I live in Cardiff, Wales. Have joined PIO so I can hopefully get some help and advice on moving to Oz and of course, make some new friends, so please add me to your contacts and feel free to get in touch!
I have spent 4 months in Oz this year on holiday and am very keen to move there permanently as I feel I belong there and would love to make a new life for myself.
Only problem is I am 46 years old and unable to get a job without a sponsorship from an employer. I am looking for sponsorship from the Financial Services industry, banking, insurance etc.. I have nearly 30 years administration experience and this can be adapted to any kind of office environment. I have a CV readily available, so please contact me if you are an employer, or know of anyone who you think would be interested.
Look forward to hearing from you!
Hi Sue and welcome to PIO, sorry i can't help with your dilemma, but hopefully someone will see this and be able to give you some advice Hope it all works out for you Tania X
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Hi, I am in the same situation. Although I have a sister in Adelaide who can sponsor me also, I still need to get a job first. I am a newbie to this site, office manager/civil servant and 46. I am a bit worried about what to do next. I know 1st things 1st - get qualifications assessed. Not sure what next stage will be! I was in Oz twice last year and really want to move over. Anybody got any supporting letters which they send to employers with their CV to ask(explain )for sponsorship? Keep in touch Sue and we can keep each other updated! Live the dream!
Hi Everyone!
My name is Sue and I live in Cardiff, Wales. Have joined PIO so I can hopefully get some help and advice on moving to Oz and of course, make some new friends, so please add me to your contacts and feel free to get in touch!
I have spent 4 months in Oz this year on holiday and am very keen to move there permanently as I feel I belong there and would love to make a new life for myself.
Only problem is I am 46 years old and unable to get a job without a sponsorship from an employer. I am looking for sponsorship from the Financial Services industry, banking, insurance etc.. I have nearly 30 years administration experience and this can be adapted to any kind of office environment. I have a CV readily available, so please contact me if you are an employer, or know of anyone who you think would be interested.
Look forward to hearing from you!
Sue
Hello Sue
Welcome to Poms in Oz.
This is not as simple as finding an employer who is willing to sponsor you.
You need a defined occupation which is on the SOL:
You will also need to show that you have the qualifications & experience needed for a skills assessment. There are several skills assessment agencies, depending on which occupation is involved.
Is your occupation shown in the ASRI list, please?
This is head-banging stuff but a lot of migration agents would not be interested in giving you a lot of help at the moment because unless you find an eligible employer, they cannot get you a visa.
Best wishes
Gill
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Hi, I am in the same situation. Although I have a sister in Adelaide who can sponsor me also, I still need to get a job first. I am a newbie to this site, office manager/civil servant and 46. I am a bit worried about what to do next. I know 1st things 1st - get qualifications assessed. Not sure what next stage will be! I was in Oz twice last year and really want to move over. Anybody got any supporting letters which they send to employers with their CV to ask(explain )for sponsorship? Keep in touch Sue and we can keep each other updated! Live the dream!
Hello ElleNico
Welcome to Poms in Oz.
If your 45th birthday has passed then I am afraid your sister cannot sponsor you for skilled migration to Oz.
You would need employer-sponsorship, the same as Sue above.
Best wishes
Gill
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I'd be interested in hearing what you dig up, since I'm in a very similar position: have degree, have been spending lots of time in Aus for a long time, have years of readily transferable work experience, but am over 45 (a few more than you, sadly), and a civil servant. Also work in a specialised field that tends only to be employed by governments, which opens a catch-22: would probably get a govt job if a citizen, but can't become citizen because need sponsorship to migrate.
I find it hard to get my head around Australia's attitude towards older prospective migrants: the sole guiding criteria seem to be that we're nearer the age at which health might start to be an issue, and surveys show that older migrants have more trouble fitting in and becoming economically active. Australia will provide a little leeway, in the shape of allowing us to make a case for 'exceptional' waiver of the age limit if we're very senior and practically uniquely well-qualified - in other words by setting an extremely high bar. I had a look at the UK migration website this weekend: I could qualify for migration to UK as a skilled migrant under the UK points system, taking into consideration my age, education, experience and current salary, but in Australia the last three factors count for bugger-all because they're trumped by being over 45. Why is there such obdurate refusal to recognise that this is an absurdly low age limit that, in the case at least of resourceful migrants with demonstrable skills and experience, not to mention knowing the country, it would profit Australia to remove? Is youth really worth so much more, in all fields of endeavour, than experience? Haven't the events of the last few weeks demonstrated that the pursuit of short-term gain, allied to collectively short memories, can lead entire economies down the pan? Blimey - aplogies for the rant, but it does get me a bit steamed up.
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You are exactly right in what you recount as being the Official Line about the cut-off age being 45.
But if you look on other Australian Govt websites one of their biggest concerns seems to be preventing a top-heavy system in which there are not enough young workers - with many years' work ahead of them yet - to pay the taxes needed in order to enable the Government to pay pensions etc to Australia's increasingly large and long-lived ageing population.
An old lady from Devon obtained a Contributory Parent visa in 2005. She was 97. She had made 3 short visits to Oz but had never lived there. DIAC beamed smugly, "You are never too old to migrate." Too true! The fact that she paid £15,000 for her visa might have increased their joy at the new migrant's arrival and all, I suspect!
I'd be interested in hearing what you dig up, since I'm in a very similar position: have degree, have been spending lots of time in Aus for a long time, have years of readily transferable work experience, but am over 45 (a few more than you, sadly), and a civil servant. Also work in a specialised field that tends only to be employed by governments, which opens a catch-22: would probably get a govt job if a citizen, but can't become citizen because need sponsorship to migrate.
Now where have I heard this before
Looks down at CV.
This is all very interesting, I have a question about sponsorship. For a 457 visa I didn't realise that your job had to be on the list, I thought you could be sponsored for any job? Can you please confirm that for sponsorship your job need to be on the lists above?
I only ask because I have been looking into sponsorship and no where else is this mentioned!! My job as a sales executive isn't on the list, but sales representative is.
Can anyone help me find Employer Sponsorship please?
