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I had a call off Jumar Solutions a few days ago about a possible team lead job in Sydney. I lost out because they found someone who already lived there.

 

I followed things up today, and had a chat to one of their recruiters. It sounds as though the market is mixed, with quiet periods interspersed with bursts of activity. I don't think that it's great, but it's probably better than the UK.

much better than the US too!

I had a call off Jumar Solutions a few days ago about a possible team lead job in Sydney. I lost out because they found someone who already lived there.

 

I followed things up today, and had a chat to one of their recruiters. It sounds as though the market is mixed, with quiet periods interspersed with bursts of activity. I don't think that it's great, but it's probably better than the UK.

I have 2 I.T resumes.

The first IT resume, states where I gained my experiences from (UK and US)

The second resume, states my past and current job titles But not the location if where I worked.

Resume 1 gets no hits, however I hear back from recruiters after sending out resume 2!!!!

what gives?!?

do aussie IT recruiters not like UK or US expats??

So I figured I will continue using resume 2 and not disclosing where I got my IT work experience from because I get more replies with it.!

Really? Graduate would get far more than that in australia, let alone 7 year experienced...that must be why their jeans are so cheap.

yep i'm serious, US IT market is not good right now.

Contractor rates in OZ are higher than here in US. When I am being headhunted by recruiters, they see 7 years solid IT experience but try to put me on a newly IT graduate's rate of around $17 - I tell them 'who the f are you kidding'?!

It might be worth having a chat to a few agents or locals. An IT contractor in Sydney was telling me that things are good down there, whereas the UK jobs market has been poor all year.

same here in the US, no company is hiring, they just want IT contractors -3-6 months contracts usually.

But from what I have observed on seek.com.au there is a mix of I.T contract postions as well as perm positions. I am at Sys admin level.

I emailed ACS asking if they will be able to assess my skills for 313112, and this is the reply that I got:

Hi,

Thank you for your email.

This is to advise that the Australia Computer Society assesses applications against certain occupation codes as determined by the Department of Immigration.

We currently assess the following ANZSCO codes:

135111 Chief Information Officer

261111 ICT Business Analyst

261112 Systems Analyst

261311 Analyst Programmer

261312 Developer Programmer

261313 Software Engineer

261314 Software Tester

261399 Software & Applications Programmer NEC

262111 Database Administrator

262112 ICT Security Specialist

263113 Network Analyst

263111 Computer Network and Systems Engineer

263112 Network Administrator

263213 ICT Systems Test Engineer

262113 Systems Administrator

Unfortunately, we do not assess ANZSCO 313112. If you would like to be assessed under ANZSCO 313112, please contact the relevant assessing authority for that occupation code.

Kind Regards,

Sarah

Skills Assessment Team

assessment@acs.org.au<mailto:assessment@acs.org.au>

my ICT occupation 313112 is assessed by TRA, but he's telling me to get my skills assessed my ACS instead.

hmmm ok

yeh, he just didn't get back to me the 2nd time. but like i said ill wait till monday.

i will wait till Monday IF he gets back to me, I am anxious to know what he meant by saying "TRA is not a viable option" for my ICT 313112 occupation:err:

he did get back to me last night! and i emailed him back to further explain why he says TRA is not a viable option! waiting to hear back on that

I'm still waiting to hear back from Peter. The last thing he told me was that "TRA is not a viable option" for my ICT 313112 Customer Support occupation!!!!!:arghh: