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Bibbs

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  1. I've pretty much got an offer, for every job I've interviewed for. Except a graduate scheme for Compaq (which I didn't really like anyhow) when straight out of Uni. The main issue the industry has is the cheap resource of the Philippines on our doorstep. You need to be much more than a 'coder' now days.
  2. In the UK I used to write VB6 and a bit Excel/Access and a small amount of SQL development. The job before was a propriety language on *NIX boxes. Got a job in Aus doing .NET and SQL DBA, even though I'd not done either and wasn't qualified. 3 years later and I'm still here.
  3. If you are not easily understood on a face-to-face conversation, you'd have to be exceptional in skill set or they wont want you. Why would they, when someone who can do the job AND be understood is available at the same cost. My main client, out of a team of almost 2 dozen, about 25% white guys (English, Australian, South African). The rest are Chinese, Singaporean, Indian, Vietnamese .. all have very good English (a lot are Australian by birth).
  4. Yeah, this. It's basically an excuse to a candidate to say 'we don't think you will fit'. I had 10+ years UK experience, and then had 3 companies wanting me (after I binned off the Agencies and DIYed the job hunting). On Seek it was hard to tell the real jobs from the fake, but basically I had a list of the top 4/5 recruitment agencies (as I'd already seen them), and I went through EVERY job on Seek I could do, and sent my CV to ALL of the ones that were not lodged by those agencies.
  5. If you can get any MS qualifications they seem to be liked here. I had to get MS SQL ones to get my contract renewed (even though i was doing the job anyway).
  6. Depends what you do and where you are. As I've said, plenty of work for me. But I'm not in management or over east. Just having an easy to pronounce first name (or nick name) is a start. Wouldn't need to be Western, as long as it's easy. In a team I work with we have :- Chinese, Singaporean, Canadian, Indian, European, Australian, South African, Thai, Vietnamese .. But they are all 'Western', and more Australian than me (even though I was born here) as I was in the UK for a long time.
  7. Developer - Arrived in Perth, March 2011. Been in solid work as a contractor since May 2011. More work than I know what to do with. All my colleagues are busy, the business is employing more people in the run up to a big 18/24 month project. All my IT friends are busy, but a few looking to move.
  8. Where is 'here'? Work for me is flat out, and we seem to be getting more contractors every month. I've found you need to be very 'western'. Even though my department is made up of a lot of ethnicities (about 9 or 10, out of 2 dozen people), they are all 'Australian'.
  9. Ha ha. Well that's one thing I'd disagree with. "the north" *shudder* (all in jest)
  10. I've no idea what that is, or if that's good or bad. The people I've seen struggle are the people with little business experience and little westernisation.
  11. Melb has a bigger market, but also more people looking for those jobs. As long as you are good, you shouldn't struggle. It helps to be very western with good English skills. The Aussies I've dealt with in IT seem to struggle with accents. Indians don't tend to do so well, as they can't be put in front of a client and be well understood.
  12. In Perth, had dealings with most, recommend none.
  13. I use Desbrough, as do several of my contractor colleagues.
  14. Took the Accountant a week to get me a company number (ABN / ACN) then another week to get all the paperwork signed off. http://www.ato.gov.au/General/Enquiry-hot-topics/In-detail/Businesses/ABN-registration/ I think you need a TFN (Tax File Number), so you'd probably need to be here. I am Australian. I've no details on the time taken for other visas or resident status. Pensions here are compulsory for the company to pay for employees. It was 9% last year, 9.25% this year and I think it goes up to 12% by 2020 or something (details on the ATO - Australian Tax Office). But if you are a director, you can get round this (dividends vs salary).
  15. Which are the best job sites? seek.com.au - for jobs. RobertWalters "SalaryChecker" app - for rates. (They do a qtrly update on their website of how the industry is going) Is the contract market healthy in Perth? Seems to be, but a lot of coding work is heading to the Philippines due to costs. Contracting is common here for all sorts of jobs, not just IT. What is contacting in Australia like compared to the UK - from what I see it seems pretty similar? Never contracted in the UK. So couldn't tell you. Any tips on setting up in Australia. Costs. Time. Umbrella services / verse own company? I got an accountant to setup the company. budget 40 hours weeks, and 48 weeks a year. Unless you do something special, you have to budget for Super (pension) payments too. GST 10%, Super 9.25% (but super is sliding up to 12% over the next few years). Getting a loan will be harder. House loan they want 12 months of invoices and a tax return. Personal loans they wanted 2/3 months. Any recommendations for accountants / agencies? Agencies - None. At all. Most are worse than useless. Accountants - I use Desbrough, as they are a friend of a friend. Slower than the UK, but then so is everything else in Perth. Is it worth considering a perm job. Perks. Salary. Cover Relocation costs? It is. But it depends on what you want. Being permi doesn't offer you the security nowadays anyhow.
  16. There is a lot of dross out there. A lot. Being a contractor means you are always under review though. My main client is very focused on the quality side. More so that any UK client I'd worked with. But who knows what the people in the next office are like. I even know that within this client different projects are run in different ways. In the background though, there is a large focus on cost cutting, as the Philippines is cheap for coding. So you've got to add something extra to be valuable here.
  17. Yup, that was my take on it. They want the "perfect" candidate, but don't want to pay the price for one. Like most things : "Fast, reliable, cheap - pick any two"
  18. I went to a few IT specialist agencies in Perth. After 26 months I finally got details of a job available. Agencies? I wouldn't bother.
  19. We are after a junior .. so it would be $60k - $90k depending on how good a fit they are.
  20. After another .NET developer. Graduate or junior level for a "blue chip" company. Perth based, full time, normal rates.
  21. I'm in Perth. Mainly .NET development with SQL admin thrown in. I've been contacted about 3 full time roles in the last month, but don't want to quit my current client. Pay would have been "market rates", so $600 - $760 a day going by the latest review on Robert Walters ($75-$95 ph). I'm contacted fairly often, mainly via LinkedIn. I've had to turn most down though as they all want full-time.
  22. Anyone an AX developer, or looking for work and know Nintex? A company I work with is looking for both.
  23. I'm more in Development, but I'll keep my ear out.
  24. I've just been contacted about another role. After a Delphi / .NET developer / Team Leader in Perth. Let me know if anyone would be interested.
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