chris8189

Well these replies are quite discouraging. I don't want to be in the UK any longer, and I thought my employment history would stand me ingoodstead to movetoAus, but clearly not!

Would a a working holiday visa really be a good start, considering I have agraduate job in the UK, have experience which includes completing an apprenticeship in Mechanical draughting. Not everybody prior to having a degree has never worked. I've been lucky in the sense that I've worked since I was 16 and done my degree the 'hard way' by working full time whilst I was doing it.

Thanks for the reply. I do have 5 years of full time engineering experience, which is a quite a lot for someone my age (24). When would you suggest lodging an EOI? ASAP? Thanks

Hi Guys, I am a recent graduate Mechanical Engineer with a Masters degree from Newcastle University in the UK. I am currently working as an engineer in Newcastle, but I've wanted to move to Australia for a while now and I feel now is the time to get the ball rolling. I have been trawling the internet looking at forums and advice on the best way to go about it but I keep getting contradicting information so thought I'd see if anyone on PIO could help me! Ideally I am looking for a role within design and manufacturing, which would preferably be some sort of graduate scheme, however looking at what other people are saying that can be hard for international graduates so I would be willing to work my way up from a non-skilled role. Any advice on if people think this is possible? Whether it's best to apply form the UK or travel to Australia and apply from there? Will I hit a stumbling block in terms of visas? Ideally I'd like to live and work in Brisbane, as I have family there. My credentials are: MSc Mechanical Engineering, BSc Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering an 5 years of prior experience working full time in industry. As I mentioned, I have family over in Aus as well, who live in Brisbane, so I was considering either going down the family sponsorship visa route, or the skilled migrant visa, as I have 5 years of previous full time work experience in industry. I am hoping to move out there around May 2014, and I was just wondering when I should lodge an EOI (Expression Of Interest) with one of the aforementioned visas. Research suggests as soon as possible, however I currently don't have the funds for it yet, so I need to save up! If anyone on here can offer any advice on this, I'd very much appreciate it. Chris

Yes. One of the first questions I was going to ask was whether I should start off the whole process now, if I'm wishing to move around May next year? I still need to get some savings together to buy the visa, accumulate savings for living out there initially and obviously last of all buy the plane ticket. I'll start a new thread in the relevant forum sub-section for this though.

Hi guys. I'm intending on coming over on a skilled migrant visa. I'm a mechanical engineering graduate, but have 4 years of previous experience working full time in industry.

Hi everyone, I'm new to this site and I'n looking to move to oz in about 8-12 months time Just thought I'd make my first post an introductory one Looking forward to getting to know you all! Chris