rachellou

I'm in the same boat, been here for about 10 months on a 457 through my fiancee, have applied for anything I can remotely tailor my skill set too but haven't had a single call back. I've also applied for jobs in shops and cleaning jobs just to be able to get out there, make some money and meet people but I haven't had any calls back about these either - just rejections. It really knocks your confidence.

Your situation is so simmilar to mine. Been here 9/10 months on a 457 through my partner's job but I have not been able to find any work even though I have really put myself out there and applied for anything and everything. We haven't made any friends so to speak and so I can't help but think of the UK and the busy life I used to have. This is probably because I don't have a job and so have too much time on my hands to over think things. Our problem though is that I would go back tomorrow but my fiancee loves it here and would stay forever. He gets well paid for his job compared to back in the UK and he doesn't have to work in the freezing cold like he did back home. I know if I told him that I wanted to go back to the UK he would support that decision but I would just feel so guilty for ruining his dream of a life here.

For me it all revolves around my experience of job hunting. My partner is a mechanic and we are here on a sponsored visa. I have been trying to find a job for 10 months but haven't had any luck. It's not the fact that I haven't even had an interview in all that time, it is the way you are treated. You spend ages applying for a job and then you don't hear anything back. You are promised calls back but none ever come. I once applied for an admin role on seek and 90 seconds later had a rejection email stating that after 'serious consideration' I had been unsuccessful and that it had been a 'close call' - just complete lies. I find that in Australia if you are applying simply through job advertisments (which as a migrant you have to do as I don't have a network of contacts to 'hear' about jobs) you are on the whole having to deal with recruitment agencies not the acutal employer and I really don't like this. I have spent hours doing online tests for recruitment agencies and then they don't even get back to me afterwards. It really knocks your confidence and I can't help but think about and browse at jobs on offer back in the UK.

Thanks for your comments everyone I was feeling quite down when I posted, it's definitely perked me up knowing there are people out there to listen and offer advice.

Hi, we've been in the Hunter Valley since April. We are here on a 457 visa, my oh is a mechanic and has the sponsorship. The problem is I still haven't managed to get a job. Not only have I not got a job I haven't had a sniff, just straight rejections. I'm 27 with a degree and worked in admin for the 6 years before we moved to Australia. I am applying for anything and everything, I am not fussy and willing to do pretty much anything. I'm putting loads of effort into the applications and it is so demoralising to not even get a single interview. I've never been in this situation before, i have always had a job, since I was 15. It's really starting to get me down, the knock on effects are that I'm not meeting people and money is very tight. We can just get by on one wage but can't do anything - days out etc. I'm just wondering whether anyone else out there is the partner of someone on a 457 and did you struggle to find work? Did you find that only having a temporary visa meant that a lot of employers dismissed you outright? It's so hard not to feel a level of despair, it is a very frustrating situation.