armitchell

Think you will find it near on impossible to find a sponsor (sorry) but you will certainly be contributing to the economy no worries their !

Ha Ha whats new - welcome to Australia the land where they exploit those from over seas unlike us from the UK! All i can say is that there is probably more of this to come !

you guessed correctly all training needs to be carried out on Australian soil anything over seas is not excepted

Yep I second this I miss the good old british banter the crack at work just not the same here ! over the years i have spent here I have gained a different view / perspective as I have matured with age so now I am starting to go off Aus completely ! Going back to UK made my mind up just a shame that the politicians are hell bent on totally destroying it - looking forward to jan 2014 when the UK possibly could become flooded with Bulgarians and Romanians !:sad:

well as i say had experience of Oz for the past 11 yrs from a trades mans point of view done all that was necessary to get registered licensed etc! I am all legit! except I have always have struggled to get employment in my trade here ! so ping pong back and fourth between here and the UK where I can always get employment easier! Yes I did my homework by spending 12months traveling around each part of Australia 11 years ago and getting a feel for the place before deciding to move here, so knew and expected it to be always hard. Except even though having gained my PR and jumped through all the hoops I still struggle to secure long term work or even a start in the first place. The only way I have got work here in the past is through other people. Now those contacts have dried up. If I apply to jobs / positions directly I hear nothing back at all not even an acknowledgement! but a week later the same job position is being readvertised. If I phone up nobody usually answers so a message is left and I never hear anything back! If somebody does manage to answer they say they are not interested!

Very True I just wish the UK government would implement the same as Australia. I have had Australians take work over me in the past in the UK keeping me out of work and I have been on construction jobs where Australians even get a higher rate than us born and grew up in the UK carrying out the same job and tasks! Sure is fair! Do the UK governments give a toss (who ever is in government) ? no because it doesn't affect them directly!

Hmm as I said earlier welcome to Australia - for me slowly over the years I'v slowly come to realise that the Australian system is set up so as to protect Australian jobs and exploit immigrants. Although I can not obviously say that this is always the case as some people do make a success of it no doubt after investing considerable amounts of money associated with immigration and visa's. But how many people from the UK do actually realise that all you do is pour more and more of your money into the Australian economy by having to retrain and do courses and then not being excepted for work positions that are available so then you feed all of your savings into the Australian economy. I think the emigrating to Australia lark is pretty much a scam by the Australian government who seem to be doing pretty well out of it. How can the Australian government say for example plumbers and electricians are on the critical skills list and that your visa and PR status are given but as soon as you arrive in Australia your existing qualifications aren't good enough even though you have passed the assessments and critieria !and you will have to invest in retraining and pour your personal savings into the Aus economy to survive and support your family while you do all of this. Same with the Working Holiday Visa with the restrictions set in place and the time limit its a good way for Australia to gain the cheap labour and labour needed to fill the jobs the Aussies don't want to do. Shame UK doesn't do the same with its immigrants and Australian trades men (forced to retrain) they should also make living within the UK for 2yrs before claiming benefits compulsory like Australia I'm sure it would help with the much needed extra revenue the UK coffers needs! Well this is my take on it..................................I'm sure no doubt I will get shot down by somebody on here though !!!!:biggrin:

No I wouldn't worry the WHV is set up so that you are more or less restricted and used to fill the crap jobs the Aussies don't want to do you will find getting fruit picking the easiest ...................................well that was my perception when I had it 11 yrs ago but then it was different you could only work for one employer a max of 3 months and it only lasted 12 months! best of luck

Exactly !

Not true - depends what sector you work in I have found if you work in I.T it is fairly easier to score work but if you work in construction much much harder especially for plumbers and electricians as for melbourne had 11 yrs experience always been difficult to get work here in this city - Sydney could be easier maybe but not always the case!

exactly but nobody in UK believes me................................It's not only recently though I have found it to be like this most of the time I have been in Oz around 11 yrs if you are originally from UK.

Try sending AJ a personal message directly sometimes these posts go unchecked ! I have a few reasons and past experiences on the matter but of course that could be seen as a biased view !!!

Ha Ha I knew it Melbourne does my nut in I'v had a stomach full of it !!!!

exactly 100% true this is exactly what I keep saying experienced it long enough now ! (Australian accountants seem to come up through chartered companies) now thats a s surprise for this country I wasn't expecting that !!!!!