David Elliott

Hi, I am from the UK and currently studying a BEng with Honours. It has come the time where I have to decide if I want to do my honours year or not. I was wondering, is the UK honours degree noticed\of value in Australia?

I have read that European experience is not really taken into consideration in Oz as it is Asia/Pacific... Personally, do you think that getting some experience alongside of University, most likely over summer or at weekends, could potentially help me securing a job more easy than having no experience at all in Oz? I do have family in Oz but they aren't close family so I will most likely have to rent. I am hoping to go over with ~£6000 which works out to be $10,000 ($1.89 per £1, xe.com) so in the event that I am struggling to find work within the first two quarters of living in Oz I am not in any financial trouble. EDIT: I have just been on the SEEK job web site and there are far more job vacancies in what I would like to do than there are here in the UK.

Hi and thank you also for welcoming me. 'Depending on the exact content of your degree, you will need at least 2 years post qualifying experience in an occupation on the SOL', what do I need two years post qualifying experience in an occupation on the SOL for? Is this for citizenship? Yes, that's what I mean.. I read this article: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/it-pro/government-it/queensland-government-to-outsource-it-services-20130607-2nuac.html I don't really want to travel to Australia for two years and then have to come back for experience to then go back out.. So hoping that once I'm there I will only be returning back to the UK for holidays to visit family. Whilst being a new graduate, I am young.. I don't know if that would outweigh the experience con.

Hi Cal, thanks for welcoming me. I was recommended that the 12 month working visa would probably be best for me, I was recommended this by a fellow student who moved to Australia a good few years ago. However, I have not had a proper look at which visa are on offer.

Hello! New member, just signed up tonight so thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is David, pretty obvious given my username and I am a 19 year old student currently studying computer systems and networks at BEng level with plans to progress on to honours next year, so I am quite a bit away from even applying for my visa. I have been thinking of moving to Australia for a few years now and there is never a day that goes by without Australia coming into mind so is definitely not a 'spur of the moment' decision. The stories I have heard from people are just amazing which gets me very hiked up, I am mainly looking forward to the better climate and better lifestyle compared to what we get here in the UK and I am young so I have nothing to loose and only experience to gain. My folks decided to move to Majorca many years ago, but because finding work and staying in work was very difficult we only stayed for a one and a half years so I know what it is like to move to another country, except in a way Australia will be a little easier as we both speak the same language. After graduation I am looking to migrate pretty much straight away, I am not overly fussed about my residence in Australia as after doing some reading I have realised that the IT market is slightly saturated and that Queensland now outsources IT so really my residence in Australia will be solely based on opportunities available, which is slightly disappointing as I have family in Brisbane and would much prefer to be relatively close to them. David

Hi, I am a 19 year old University student residing in Scotland with intentions to migrate to the east side of Australia upon graduation in May/June 2015. I am studying a Computer Systems and Networks course hoping for a career in Systems Administration (Preferably Linux). When I am ready to move I will have a Beng with honours along with Cisco certification (between Entry and Expert - hoping to progress as much as I can) and Microsoft certifications; MCITP and MCP. I would say I have a very broad knowledge in IT from networking to programming, I can write programs and say I was pretty good at it considering I don't study programming but it's pretty much learning all the time. I have to date tried Visual Basic, C#, Bash, Python, HTML and PHP. Not to brag or be big headed but I would say for my age I am pretty clued up. I was recommend by a fellow student to get a 12 month working visa, he lived in Australia a good few years ago and recommended that this was most likely the best visa for me. I will be moving myself, I have family who live in Brisbane.